Question

Hi I am looking for a way to work my way through a particular column within a table to add a <p> at the beginning of the entry and </p> at the end.

Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

Answer 1

The mySQL statement is easy using CONCAT:

UPDATE tablename SET columnname = CONCAT("<p>", columnname, "</p>");

Think about whether this really makes sense, though: Do you really need this data inside the table? Why not simply append it when outputting the data in your web interface (or whatever)?