Question

I have the following query:

    SET @q = 12;  
    UPDATE `table` 
    SET qty = CONCAT(GREATEST(qty - @q, 0), LEFT(@q := @q - LEAST(qty, @q), 0)) 
    ORDER BY id; 

(Go vote eggyal up for the great query here: Removing a quantity from multiple rows in a database )

I am running the query (without preparing in this case) through OOP PDO / MySQL.

I want to pass the value of the @q back to PHP or any flag really if @q did not get to 0. I’m not sure how to accomplish this. If anyone is able to point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Just select it, as you would anything else:

$res = mysql_query("SELECT @q AS q") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
echo $row['q'];