FROM entire_catalog WHERE artist=dysrhythmia

[RickChase]

Hello,

 

I have a record label and am setting up a database to hold all information relating to our releases. I have the following statement that works great (to list them by chronologically by release date):

 

$sql="SELECT * FROM entire_catalog ORDER BY release_date_us";

 

Now, I want to just list releases by a certain artist (Dysrhythmia, in this case) and when I use this...

 

$sql="SELECT * FROM entire_catalog WHERE artist=Dysrhythmia ORDER BY release_date_us";

 

I get the dreaded \"Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource\"

 

In my database, I have one table \"entire_catalog\" and in this table I have fields named \"artist\", \"title\", \"release_date_us\", \"release_date_eur\", etc...

 

The \"artist\" field is setup as varchar(64) - why won\'t this work for me?

 

In attempting to figure this out for myself, I changed the WHERE to pull only certain catalog numbers, and that worked great. But I cannot get it to pull only one artist by name.

 

I have a feeling that it has something to do with the capitol \"D\" at the beginning of the name, but I need it to be there (in the \"artist\" field) so the name displays properly.

 

Confused... Thank you for looking!

Rick

[RickChase]

Update - I added a new field (artist_id) and if I use

 

WHERE artist_id=1

 

then it works great (lists all releases by that artist). But I would much rather use the bands name than have to try and remember everyones number.

 

Thanks again,

Rick

[shivabharat]

$sql="SELECT * FROM entire_catalog WHERE artist=\'Dysrhythmia\' ORDER BY release_date_us";

 

Hope this helps!

[RickChase]

Hope this helps!

 

Outstanding!! Thank you very much!

Rick

[holiks]

hehe...them damn little quotes ..