On Wednesday 17 April 2002 08:21, Jason Soza wrote:
> Sorry, I just noticed that the count() function will do at least the
> first part of my question, i.e. SELECT year, COUNT(*) FROM cars GROUP
> BY year
>
> But the second part still has me a bit stumped. I know that you can
> pass a variable using something like script.php?year=1991, but doesn't
> that assume that in your script you have something like:
> $query = ("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE year=$year")
>
> So the $year is the only variable that gets replaced by the script.php?
> year=1991 you called it with. How could I make it so that the
> entire 'year=$year' part of the query gets replaced by what comes after
> the ? in script.php?year=1991  ?

You can do something like:

  script.php?qry=year%3D1991

%3D is the url encoding for '='.

Then in your script:

  $query = ("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE $qry")


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