Question

Here’s the function I created:

function get_phurl_option($option) {
$db_result  =   mysql_query("SELECT value FROM ".DB_PREFIX."options WHERE option = '$option'") or db_die(__FILE__, __LINE__, mysql_error());
$db_row     =   mysql_fetch_row($db_result);
return $db_row[0];
}

However, upon visiting a page that uses the function, I get the following error:

File: /usr/home/<removed>/includes/functions.php
Line: 28
Message: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'option = 'shortcode_type'' at line 1

I’m not sure why this would be, I’ve tried apostrophes, speech marks, and backticks, neither of which seem to work. I can’t figure out the problem here, so any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

option is a MySQL reserved word, so you need to enclose it in backticks

$db_result  =   mysql_query("SELECT value FROM ".DB_PREFIX."options WHERE `option` = '$option'")