syntax help please?

[glyndower]

I have a database that is named "blah_blah-blah" I can't change the name of the database. I've managed to work around all of the errors that this naming convention has caused except one. I backquoted the name in the sql calls... SELECT * ..... FROM ,blah_blah_-_blah.tablename .....; that fixed the sql calls. Now I seem to be having issues with the global definitions:

define(DB_NAME,"blah_blah-blah");

Dosn't seem to work...

neither does:

define(DB_NAME,"blah_blah_-_blah");

What would be the correct method of defining this global with this database name. PLEASE?

TIA

[BuzzLY]

"doesn't work" is a bit vague. What exactly is happening? Are you getting any kind of errors?

[Weedpacket]

....Of course, because defined constants aren't decorated with $ the way variables are, PHP can't see them when they're inside strings.

[glyndower]

The script runs, but returns no results. As it dosn't "see" the database. I have this same code installed on another domain and it works fine, that one has a more conventional database name and that is the only difference in that code.

I need to find a workaround for this. Any ideas?