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So I have the following and for some reason or another it's not wanting to work with me. If I do the query directly in phpmyadmin it will return the number, however for some reason when I throw it into a variable it won't return anything. I have a feeling it's because of the text string? How do you properly represent a string of text that has a space between it?

 

1st query get's the name from another table:

 

$query = "SELECT name FROM info WHERE userdid = 4";
$data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($data);

$tname = $row['name'];

 

 

Table: testing

rows: number name

data: 4      Testing This

$query1 = "SELECT number FROM testing WHERE name = '" . $tname . "'";
$data1 = mysqli_query($dbc, $query1);
$row1 = mysqli_query($data1);

$numreturn = $row1['number'];

// Do stuff

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Both codes are correct, except  in your second code block this line

$row1 = mysqli_query($data1);

Should be

$row1 = mysqli_fetch_array($data1);

 

Note, You call mysqli_query to execute the query you defined. To get the data returned from the query you use mysqli_fetch_array

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As you're passing a string to mysql you'll need to wrap it within quotes. Which is what you have already done.

$query1 = "SELECT number FROM testing WHERE name = '" . $tname . "'";

Notice the single quotes before/after the double quotes. That should work regardless of the spaces.

 

How are your defining $tname? And what is its value?

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$tname is pulled from the 1st query assigned as:

 

$tname = $row['name'];

 

so effectively:

 

$tname = "Test's Suck";

 

error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's Suck'' at line 1

 

 

when I put the query in phpmyadmin:

 

SELECT number FROM testing WHERE name = "Test's Suck"

 

it retrieves the value fine

 

 

so that's why I'm confused lol

 

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