Using a variable in the WHERE Clause

Question

I am a newbie in MySQL and PHP. I have a HTML form where I would like to pass 1 variable from to my PHP code and then run a query on my database for the record that holds that v

Answer 1

I agree its a quote issue, but here is how my code would look.

  $sql = 'SELECT * FROM SiteInfo WHERE Serial = "' . $serial . '"';

or

  $sql = "SELECT * FROM 'SiteInfo; WHERE 'Serial' = \"$serial\"";