mysql_select_db and other option

[spighita]

Hi,
Most of the stuff I knew about php is somewhere very deep and I'm in the process of digging it out.

Is there a difference if I use

mysql_select_db vs mysql_query("USE ".$database);

I totally forgot about the first one and just used the second one that happens to work fine.
Is there a difference?

[dagon]

i prefer db_name.table_name syntax my self, but the two you point out are equivalent, while i haven't read the php code i would suspect that mysql_select_db issues a USE db query.

[spighita]

Thank you for your feedback.