Question

I can’t seem to perform the proper selections from mySQL data.

$sort = $_GET['sort'];
// ...
$sql = "SELECT id, title, genre, format, year FROM dvd WHERE format LIKE '$sort%'";

$result = mysql_query($sql, $link);

<ul class="grid">
<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) 
    { ?>
        ...
where $sort = 'dvd'

However, when i tried to do it manually,

SELECT id, title, genre, format, year FROM dvd WHERE format LIKE 'dvd'

i was able to obtain results using phpmyadmin -> mySQL -> SQL.

Why is it that i won’t be able to get data whenever i choose format?

I tried this for other columns such as genre and title and i was able to get the result that i want. The columns were all structured to be the same VARCHAR and same settings

Answer 1

the word “format” might be a keyword which is conflicting… change the column name “format” to something else… It will work…