PHP mysql select concat

Question

i have this function that shows an autosuggest in a form:

function searchbyId($params) {

    $input = strtolower($params[\'input\']);
    $len = strlen($input);         


        

Answer 1

I feel like this is decidedly simple, but you have a syntax error in your concat statement; you're using single quotes to escape strings but the PHP string is defined with single quotes:

$sql='SELECT DISTINCT nIdentidad, CONCAT(primerNombre, ' ', segundoNombre, ' ', primerApellido, ' ', segundoApellido) AS nombre FROM tarjeta_indent WHERE nIdentidad LIKE \''.$input.'%\' ORDER BY nIdentidad LIMIT '.$limit;

How about this?

$sql = sprintf(<<

If I'm right about db_query and you're using Drupal, try this instead (for Drupal 7):

$sql = << $input, ':limit' => $limit));

This would be the Drupal 6 version:

$sql = <<