Question

Thanks everyone. Based on your responses, it looks like I’ll be sending this one back. I thought it might be something I could fix quickly.

One of our clients sent us a script and one of the files had the following in it.

AND catparentid = '".( integer )."'";

Does anyone have any idea why the word “integer” would be inbetween the brackets or what it’s supposed to be doing? I can’t find anything about it online. It’s the ending part of a sql query. The script is complaining about the “.” in this query but I suspect the problem is the “integer” part…?

This is the full query….

$sql = "SELECT * FROM [|PREFIX|]categories WHERE catname = '".$GLOBALS['ISC_CLASS_DB']->quote( $prod )."' AND catparentid = '".( integer )."'";

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a PHP error and not a MySQL one.

I can only speculate what this script is really supposed to do, but it’s possible they meant to cast a variable to integer because the catparentid column is an integer type (which is a good idea), but the variable isn’t actually there:

$sql = "..AND catparentid = '".( integer ) $catparentid ."'";
//                                         ^ forgot something?

However, seeing [|PREFIX|], it’s more likely just a placeholder as Michael suggests.