Question

I’m having some issues declaring a value in my php statement. The 2 values outside of the sub query declare fine but the one inside the sub query does not work and gives me Undefined index: deviceName.

    $sql4 = "SELECT endPort, startPort, 
        ( 
            SELECT deviceName
            FROM devices
            WHERE devices.deviceID = patching.endDeviceID
        )
    FROM patching
    WHERE deviceID =  '$deviceID'
    LIMIT 0 , 10"; 

    $query4 = mysql_query($sql4);
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query4))
        {
            $startp = $row['startPort'];
            $endp = $row['endPort'];
            $endname= $row['deviceName'];

            echo '<tr class="logm"><td>'.$startp.'</td><td></td><td>'.$endname.'</td><td></td><td>'.$endp.'</td><td></td></tr>';

        }

Is it possible to declare this value and am i doing it wrong or is there another way round this issue.

Answer 1

You didn’t give the subquery result a name:

SELECT endPort, startPort,
    ( 
        SELECT deviceName
        FROM devices
        WHERE devices.deviceID = patching.endDeviceID
    ) AS deviceName
FROM patching
WHERE deviceID = '$deviceID'
LIMIT 0, 10

Though you should be using joins, not subqueries:

SELECT endPort, startPort, deviceName
  FROM patching
  LEFT JOIN devices ON(devices.deviceID = patching.endDeviceID)
 WHERE patching.deviceID = '$deviceID'
 LIMIT 0, 10