Re: problems with looping array

First, make sure $item[$index] has anything in it by inserting an echo $item[$index]. You also have to prepend item_number with the table name as in ar.item_number. Try single quotes around $item[$index], too. If $index is a name, I've had trouble in the past getting associative arrays to resolve correctly inside strings. Try using this ...

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ar

LEFT JOIN company on ar.company_id=company.company_id LEFT JOIN scale on ar.scale_id=scale.scale_id WHERE ar.item_number = '".$item[$index]."')";

I tried but nothing different happened. I'm still playing though and I'll see if I can make it work. I'm new to all of this...so we'll see how it goes. Thanks for your help. -jordan Fred <fred.nospam.please@querymagic.com> wrote in message news:20011203090233.1958.qmail@pb1.pair.com...

Strings in your sql query must be quoted. Try this instead:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ar LEFT JOIN company on ar.company_id=company.company_id LEFT JOIN scale on ar.scale_id=scale.scale_id WHERE item_number = \"$item[$index]\")";

Fred Jordan <newimagedesign@newimagedesign.com> wrote in message news:20011203081812.81073.qmail@pb1.pair.com...

here's the situation. I'm making a shopping cart, when an item is added it's item number is added into an array. I then want this array's items

to

be compared agains the database. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use

a

variable in the query string of MySQL. something along the lines of.... <?PHP include ('connect.php'); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ar LEFT JOIN company on ar.company_id=company.company_id LEFT JOIN scale on ar.scale_id=scale.scale_id WHERE item_number =" . $item[$index]); ?> where $item is the array of item numbers and $index is an auto

incrementing

number that increments at the end of the loop. Please help if you know of anyway to use this variable. Also, I can post my whole script if

needed...I

just didn't want unneeded info posted. Thanks in advance. -Jordan

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