Robert Chalmers wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I trying to return specific codes from the database, and the part of the
> code that works when actually in the database is like this;
>
> => select code from catalog where code ~ '^1[a-zA-Z]';
>
> This works, returning ONLY those codes from the table that contain the
> number 1 in the first position, and non others.
>
> However.... when placed in the php3 script, like this, it errors out? What
> am I doing wrong???/
>
> (.... and code ~ '^$category[a-zA-Z]' order by code");
>
try "'^".$category."[a-zA-Z]' ..."
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