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Asked: 2026-05-28T03:48:39+00:00

It’s all in the title really. I’ve got this SQL query, ugly I know,

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It’s all in the title really.

I’ve got this SQL query, ugly I know, but it should at least work… It works when I use it in PHPMyAdmin but when sent from PHP I get a syntax error from MySQL. 🙁

INSERT INTO `shortname_revisions` (old_shortname , new_shortname) VALUES ('$old', '$new');

UPDATE `soft_data` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');
UPDATE `shot_data` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');
UPDATE `virus_scanning` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');
UPDATE `lang_translations` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');
UPDATE `ratings` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');
UPDATE `file_data` SET shortname = REPLACE(shortname ,'$old', '$new');

The $new and $old variables when pasted into PHPMyAdmin to test, would contain any string. Use $old = "media-player"; $new = "video-player"; as examples.

Also, I’m not sure of the correct use of the back ticks and where they should be and when, maybe that’s part the problem.

For everyone asking about the error, sorry, I didn’t post it. And I sure ain’t about to go and recreate the error to paste it here. It was a pretty generic “You have a syntax error in roughly this square quarter mile of code somewhere” error.

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  1. Editorial Team

    1) Each statement needs to be sent in a separate mysql_query() call.

    2) The backticks are fine but unecessary as there are no embedded blanks in any of those table names

    3) I don’t know your data structure but UPDATE without a “where” clause could be considered to be slightly unusual (unless these are intentionally single-row tables)

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