NOT IN WHERE Clause Error

Question

I want to fetch a list of items from my database that are not currently within my item array.

I have researched that 'NOT IN' is the perfect solution to do multiple != 'NOT EQUAL TO' in large quantities.

But my code to generate the list:

    echo $query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM %s WHERE profile_id='%s' AND id NOT IN (%s)", $table_array[$item], $profile_id, implode(',', $shop_window_items));

Causes this error:

SELECT * FROM event WHERE profile_id='945b4dbf5bf8ee1ac08a73e9e25a939772c9c9b8' AND id NOT IN (4d96b83d18a8c2db79089ac002e346fd9dea5c43,3803bb535015174e9675090fbb680a5f286ba6bf,58f07f83a8ea10ec4db9c8b7c7f39f0a6c3a2079,57c2db2ce32925bcb49b83e22513ca74cc9bcadc)Unknown column '4d96b83d18a8c2db79089ac002e346fd9dea5c43' in 'where clause

Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need single quotes around strings, otherwise they are assumed to be system names.

...NOT IN ('%s')", $table_array[$item], $profile_id, implode("','", ...
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Answer 2

Pretty sure you need quotes around the values inside the IN

echo $query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM %s WHERE profile_id='%s' AND id NOT IN (%s)", $table_array[$item], $profile_id, "'" . implode("','", $shop_window_items) . "'");