Re: Programming the Hard Way?

"[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> wrote" > Am I programming the hard way? > mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE id='".$id."'"); > > Could I just do this? > mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE id='$id'"); Yes. And if $id is always numeric you could simplify it even more. Quotes are only needed around strings. They aren't needed around numbers. If you surround a number in quotes it's treated as a string which will result in different behavior when doing sorting and > or < comparisons. mysql_query( "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=$id " ); -- Steve Werby COO 24-7 Computer Services, LLC Tel: 804.817.2470 http://www.247computing.com/