Question

I get a error message saying:

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 ‘key=’12345′ AND id=’98765′ LIMIT 1’ at line 1

My code is:

$key = '12345'; 
$id = '98765';  
include realpath('./inc/config.php');

            $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE key='{$key}' AND id='{$id}' LIMIT 1", $config) or die(mysql_error());
            $result = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);

Now can anyone tell me whats wrong in this?

Answer 1

key is a reserved word, you need to properly quote it with backticks if you want to use it as a field name.

SELECT * FROM users WHERE `key`='{$key}' AND id='{$id}' LIMIT 1