Question

I have a table with almost 40 fields in it. I want to update all these fields with a single value i.e 1 in a single query and i dont want to specify each column in the update query.

Can anyone help me in it??

Answer 1

You can try:

$sql = "SHOW COLUMNS FROM sometable";
$fields = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query($sql));

Should help u retrieve the column names from the table, and store them in an array.

 $field_string = implode("='1', ", $fields);

changes the array to a string and adds "=1" to it. Then you can run this your query thus:

 $sql = "UPDATE sometable SET {$field_string}";