Question

I want to know why

$amzius_sql = "SELECT DISTINCT `Age` , SUBSTRING( Age, LOCATE( ' ', Age ) ) AS `AgePrefix` , SUBSTRING_INDEX( Age, ' ', 1 ) AS `AgeValue` FROM `suoPage` ORDER BY `AgePrefix` , `AgeValue` LIMIT 0 , 30";
$amzius_res = mysql_query($amzius_sql);

works flawlessly and this:

$amzius_sql = 'SELECT DISTINCT `Age` , SUBSTRING( Age, LOCATE( " ", Age ) ) AS `AgePrefix` , SUBSTRING_INDEX( Age, " ", 1 ) AS `AgeValue` FROM `suoPage` ORDER BY `AgePrefix` , `AgeValue` LIMIT 0 , 30';
$amzius_res = mysql_query($amzius_sql);

produces an error:
Unknown column ‘ ‘ in ‘field list’

The only difference is quotes. If both queries are queried in phpMyAdmin – both work, but only the first one works if queried by mysql_query() in PHP

Answer 1

Here is the explaination:

The ANSI_QUOTES mode causes the server to interpret double-quoted
strings as identifiers. Consequently, when this mode is enabled,
string literals must be enclosed within single quotation marks. They
cannot be enclosed within double quotation marks.

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