Question

I have a table which contains cNumber as primary key which contains data in this format 12-43245 or 12-34537.

But when select gives out the result, it actually subtracts the value and returns this -43233 and -34525 respectively.

Is there any way to get the same value returned and not the subtracted value?

Here is the code
datayupe for cNumber is varchar

     $query = "SELECT 'cNumber','cNature','cStNum','cAddress','cTime','cDate','cLocation','cDsp' FROM cases";
          $result=mysql_query($query);
 while($row=@mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 $id=$row["cNumber"];
echo ($id);
}

Checked something. The $id value is printed correctly, but when I am using this $id in another INSERT query, then it inserts the subtracted value in the database

Answer 1

The issue is that the primary key is integer and not characters so when you do a select it does

12-43245 = -43233 and 12-34537 = -34525.

If you want to have both digits and special characters try changing the column type to varchar or char.

try to store the id as

$id = mysql_real_escape_string($row["cNumber"]);