Question

I am using the following statement which works fine in HeidiSQL, but it is not returning any data when used in my PHP code:

$query="Select Left(SiteName, 4) from sites order by SiteName";

It works when I remove the Left function:

$query="Select SiteName from sites order by SiteName";

What am I missing?

Answer 1

It’s probably returning data correctly but the column (in php associative array which are you probably using) is named Left(SiteName, 4), try using:

$query="Select Left(SiteName, 4) AS `SiteName` from sites order by SiteName";

It should work.