Question

All,
I’m trying to write a mySQL query but PHP is giving me an error. The line that is giving me an error is:

$qry = "Select * from vendor_options where vendor_option_id='$_SESSION[pav_vendor_categories_$i]'";

The above code is in a for loop so that is how the $i is getting populated. The error I’m receiving is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ‘]’

Any ideas on what is wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

$sVendorId = $_SESSION['pav_vendor_categories_' . $i];
$sQuery = "SELECT * FROM vendor_options WHERE vendor_option_id='{$sVendorId}'";

This your working code.
Build vendor option ID outside of query — this will make you code more readable.