I bet it's escaping the percent sign. anyone know of a way to control that?<br>
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I'm doing this on the cvs version forgot to mention that?<br>
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On 11/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Davies</b> <<a href="mailto:justin@buddyping.com">justin@buddyping.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thomas,<div><br></div><div>Not a huge amount of help, but may give you some pointers:</div><div><br></div><div>Get the devel module and turn on query output. You will be able to see exactly what is being sent to the database.
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other thing is that db_query *might* be escaping the % character so it
will never return a result unless you have an artist starting with A%.<br>
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</span> </div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_107d7737c06eea64_2"><br><div><div>On 28 Nov 2005, at 14:44, Thomas G. Willis wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I apologize if this isn't the right list. didn't know if this would be support necessarily since it's a custom module.
<br> <br> I'm at a loss as to whether this is a bug or whether I'm just trying to do something I'm not supposed to.<br> I can't get a query working using the like operator in drupal. the same sql runs fine in in phpmyadmin.
<br> <br> not like will return results though weird. any ideas? <br> <br> <pre>function _db_getartistlist($filter=''){<br>//Example $filter='A%';<br>/*filter not working yet ??*/<br><br>/*doesn't work*/<br>/*<br> if($filter!=''){
<br> return db_query('select distinct artist from {mp3col_data} where artist like \'' .$filter . '\' order by artist');<br><br> //return db_query('select distinct artist from {mp3col_data} where artist like \'%s\' order by artist',$filter);
<br><br> }else{<br> return db_query('select distinct artist from {mp3col_data} order by artist');<br><br> }<br>*/<br><br> /*works*/<br> return db_query('select distinct artist from {mp3col_data} order by artist');
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