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# 1  
Old 09-09-2008
SQL Select inside Insert

I have following.

Code:
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$userid = 2
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$query = "select username from users where userid = ".$userid.";";
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$username = $line['uid'];
$data="Some Data Here";
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$query = "insert into logger (username, data) valuse ($username, $data);";
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I would like to not have 2 database calls.

Im sure there is a way to "join" the 2. I want to store the actual username in the logger table and not the UID#, I have not had much luck.

Probabally something really easy im missing.

Something like this:

Code:
insert into logging 
('type','who','data','ipaddress') 
values 
("testing", (select username from users where id = 2;), "data here","1.1.1.1");

Thanks...
# 2  
Old 09-09-2008
I figured it out...

Code:
insert into logging 
(type,who,data,ipaddress) 
values 
("testing",(select username from users where id = 2),"data here","1.1.1.1");

Was using wrong quotes.
# 3  
Old 09-11-2008
In MySQL there is a INSERT ... SELECT that you can probably use to avoid a subquery, but you didn't confirm whether you were using MySQL. Not sure about other database engines though.
# 4  
Old 09-11-2008
Yes I am using MySQL v5.0.45
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