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read two fields as one in mysql table

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Aug 17.2004

Hi Guys

Long time no see!! =)

[B]What I have:[/B]
Two date fields in the same table.
eg. “date_field1” and “date_field2” in “mytable”.

None of the dates in and between these to fields are the same.

[B]My Question:[/B]
How do I read the data from these two fields as if it were one field? I want to sort the data in the “combined(for reading)” field ascending.

Thanks for your help.

Ps. I tried UNION, but I get some errors using that..

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@Paul_JrAug 18.2004 — If I'm not mistaken, maybe [font=courier]CONCAT()[/font] is what you're looking for?

[code=php]
<?php
$query_date = mysql_query("SELECT CONCAT(date_field, ' ', date_field2) AS date_field FROM table");
$row_date = mysql_fetch_row($query_date);
$date = echo $row_date[0];
?>
[/code]
As far as I know, that will concatenate [font=courier]date_field1[/font] and [font=courier]date_field2[/font] together with a space in the middle and assign it to the alias [font=courier]date_field[/font] (I'm not exactly sure, as I've never used this function before). This might not be what you're looking for, however.
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