[ic] arbitrary database display

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:26:37 -0600 (CST)
"Alex Lofaso (Planetanime.com)" <alex@planetanime.com> wrote:

> Hello list!
> 
> I've been trying to display the data from a arbitrary database table in my
> fly page.  For each sku from the products table there is a number of
> records in my product_detail_parameters table.  For example for sku xyz
> there could be 3 rows:
> sku id  parameter  value
> xyz 1   p1         v1
> xyz 2   p2         v2
> 
> etc...
> 
> here is the code i am using to display these records:
> 
>      [if-item-data products_detail_parameters sku]
> 
>      <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
> 
>      [query sql="SELECT parameter, value FROM product_detail_parameters
>      where sku = [item-code] ORDER BY id"        type=list
>         list=1
>         ]
>      [list]
>         <tr>
>                 <td>
>                 <li><b>[sql-param parameter]: </b>
>                 [sql-param value]</li>
> 
>                 </td>
>         </tr>
>      [/list]
>      [/query]
> 
>      </table>
>  [/if-item-data]
> 
> 
> Despite the fact that there is data in the table, I cannot seem to get any
> results to display.  I've also tried using the loop search method to no
> avail.  Any help would be great!

You need to quote [item-code], e.g. '[item-code]'. Otherwise your SQL syntax
is invalid given that the sku contains letters.

Bye
       Racke