Question

I want to write a mysql query something like this:

select * from books where title like
‘$title_’;

The $title is a php variable. when i run the above query, it throws an error saying

‘$title_ variable not found’

How can I achieve this?

Thanks..

Answer 1

Do it like this:

$query = "select * from books where title like '{$title}_';"
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

By surrounding variable in {} you can specify that only $title is a variable and not the _. And the double-quote string will ensure that this variable gets expanded to its value.