Question

I’m inserting into my database here with parameters from the form.

The form has 4 input fields (current_no, current_street, current_city, current_state). I’ve set it up so that the client can display each of these values on the web page, but what they want is to be able to view these values in a single column.

so basically from…

current_no | current_street | current_city | current_state

to…

| current_no current_street current_city current_state |

I decided I’d add another column to the table that’ll store this “full” value and I figured that populating it would probably be easy but I think I’m missing something here:

insert into customers(current_address) values (current_no + ' ' + current_street + ' ' + current_city + ' ' + current_state)

Although this doesn’t give me any errors, it only inserts the current_no value into the column.

How can I concatenate all the values (string types) into the column on database side?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

in mySQL use CONCAT()

insert into customers(current_address) values 
(
   (CONCAT(current_no,' ',current_street,' ',current_city,' ',current_state)
)

or CONCAT_WS()

insert into customers(current_address) values 
(
   (CONCAT_WS(' ', current_no,current_street,current_city,current_state)
)