Can't Create Trigger using values from other tables

[TheFitz]

Hi all,

I'm trying my hand at some MySQL. Although I am a seasoned programmer, I have never touched MySQL and I am struggling to create a new trigger using phpMyAdmin.

In short, there are 3 tables, "tblusers" "tblprofile" and "tblfamily". Assuming a user is logged in and they want to create a new profile. Each profile will contain family members. The first family member should be the current user logged in. I am trying to create an after insert trigger on the profile table that takes the "FRIENDLY NAME" from the user table and inserts a new row into the family table, yet the code is throwing the 1064 error.

My code is below:

BEGIN

DECLARE MYNAME VARCHAR(30);

SET MYNAME = SELECT USR_FRIENDLY_NAME 
             FROM tblusers 
             WHERE USR_ID = ( SELECT PRO_USR_ID 
                              FROM tblprofiles 
                              WHERE PRO_ID = NEW.PRO_ID);

INSERT INTO tblfamily (FAM_PRO_ID, FAM_NAME, FAM_DOB,      FAM_DATE_UPDATED, FAM_USER_UPDATED)
               VALUES (NEW.PRO_ID, MYNAME,   '2017-01-01', NOW(),            1);

END

I'm sure this will be easily fixed, but Google doesn't seem to be my friend today.

Thanks for any help you can give

TheFitz

Fitz
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[vacunita]

Since this is really about MYSQL and has pretty much nothing to do with PHP, I would suggest posting in the forum436 for better and more accurate help.

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[TheFitz]

OK, will do.

Thanks Vacunita

Fitz
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