Re: [PHP] problems in WHERE statment

On 5/21/07, Mike Ryan <miker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am a newbie so please bear with me.

I get this error message when I try to run a query

Connected successfullyCould not successfully run query () from DB: Unknown
column '$today' in 'where clause'

this is the query command
$query = 'SELECT *
FROM `job listing`
WHERE open >=$today
LIMIT 0 , 30 ';

I have assigned $today this way $today=date("Y-m-d");

Can you tell me what I did wrong??

thanks for your help.

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Single quotes in PHP do not evaluate their contents. Double quotes
do. So $today is literally $today instead of the value you set in it.

$hi = "Hi";

echo '$hi';
output: $hi

echo "$hi";
output: Hi
.

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