Question

I’m using the joomla CMS to write to my db and have written a custom front end.

I’m trying to obtain the contents of the ‘fulltext’ row. I’ve tried mysql_fetch_assoc['fulltext'] and mysql_result($sql, 0, 'fulltext'). Both return fulltext. Here’s the query string:

SELECT created, modified, title, introtext, 'fulltext', state, urls, created_by
  FROM table_content
 WHERE id='$id'

It’s probably something really obvious I’ve missed because fulltext seems to conflict with sql without the quotation marks around it.

Any assistance would as always be appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use SQL keywords as field names, with appropriate escaping with backticks. You’re using single quotes, which turns the word into a string that contains the word “fulltext”.

Try

SELECT .... introtext, `fulltext`, state, ...
                       ^--------^--- backticks

instead.