Re: MySQL help

you can use: where COMPANY like '$alpho_temp'; Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. --Dennis Ritchie On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Marc Davenport wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:29:45 -0500 (EST) > From: Marc Davenport <md261897@oak.cats.ohiou.edu> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] MySQL help > > I'm trying to query a mysql database and have it only return values that > start with a certain letter. > my current query setup is this > > $alpha_temp= $alpha . '*'; > $query="SELECT * FROM $mysql_table_member_list WHERE COMPANY='$alpha_temp' > ORDER BY COMPANY"; > > $alpha is just a single character, ie 'a' > $alpha_temp was an attempt at using wild cards. > > Does anyone understand me? > can anyone help? > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >