You have an error in your SQL syntax

[D_tunisia]

$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ratings WHERE user_id = $user_id AND product_id = $id") or die ('Error: '.mysql_error ());
$myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result);

Can someone please explain why I get the error below with the code above? I'm stuck!!!

Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '== AND product_id == 20' at line 1

[themanwhowas]

tings WHERE user_id = '$user_id' AND product_id = '$id'")

add those apostrophies and see how it goes

[NogDog]

From the error, it sort of looks like maybe the variable $user_id has no value. In any case, I would recommend you use the following pattern for submitting queries, so that if there is an error you can see the query exactly as it was submitted to MySQL:

$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ratings WHERE user_id = $user_id AND product_id = $id";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed ($query): " . mysql_error());

[bradgrafelman]

I find it odd that the error message shows two equal signs, yet the code only shows one.

And yeah, $user_id doesn't appear to have a value. So, where do you define $user_id (and $id, too)?