I had an issue running a local server (MAMP), where the combined SQL:

SET @pos=0;
INSERT INTO myNewTable(someField, reportOrder)
SELECT fieldName, @pos:=@pos+1
FROM myOldTable
ORDER BY reportOrder;

Did not work in PHP, although it did work in phpMyAdmin…

Turns out that my PHP could not group queries I think. So I had to do this:

// set var in sql
$query = “SET @pos=0″;
$result = mysql_query($query);
mysql_free_result($result);

// now query will run
$query = “INSERT INTO myNewTable(someField, reportOrder)
SELECT fieldName, @pos:=@pos+1
FROM myOldTable
ORDER BY reportOrder;”

Thanks again,

B

Having come from Foxpro background, functions like RECNO() are missed.
Until now that is!

Brillliant!

Roger