Mysql - pre-pend to string

[danIT]

I have a table full of statements teachers use to write there reports. they want all statements to begin with the students name (this code has been sorted) but to do this i need all the statements to start with '--fristname'

How can i add '--firstname' to the beginning of all the strings stored in the table?

[powdarrmonkey]

Assumption: each row has a unique id, and you have already established a connection called db.

(disclaimer: I haven't tested this.)

$sub = '--firstname';
$table = 'mytable';
$getsql = "SELECT id, name FROM  {$table}";

$getresult = mysql_query($getsql, $db);

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($getresult))
{
    $sql = "UPDATE {$table} SET `name`='{$sub}{$row[1]}' WHERE `id`=${row[0]} LIMIT 1";
    if( ! mysql_query($sql, $db) )
        print("Unable to update row {$row[0]}\n";
}

[webman]

OK, try this on a test table first (using Concat) :

UPDATE statements SET statement = CONCAT('--firstname', statement)

[powdarrmonkey]

Thought it could probably do something like that, but I've just never had time to learn