Well put Julie.... ed
At 10:39 AM 5/30/2002 -0700, Julie Meloni wrote: >Jas (and anyone else) - > >With all due respect, you're acting like a troll. Posting a question, >getting MANY correct answers, then reposting the question and bitching >about not understanding the answers, well, that's troll-like. > >Granted, many responses on this list over the past while have been >sarcastic, but usually also have the answer in them. The tone comes >from people asking the questions not doing their own homework. > >e.g. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > >Mailing lists such as this one are not intended to give people >verbatim answers to their problems, such as "I have to write an >application for my university class, please do it for me" and the >like. Instead, these lists will help those who attempt to help >themselves. > >The fact of the matter is, RTFM is the right answer. The very >simplistic method of reading the results of a MySQL query are right >there in the manual, in the MySQL query functions section. Also, >they're in zillions of tutorials, any basic book on PHP, and so on. > >In short: > >1) connect to db server -- mysql_connect() >2) select db -- mysql_select_db() >3) issue query -- mysql_query() >4) from there you get a result identifier. You feed that into >mysql_result() or mysql_fetch_array() or mysql_fetch_row() > >Read the manual for the differences -- including examples. > > >You say: >J> rest of us we rely on examples, etc to get it done. > >They ARE in the manual, which is pretty much the best manual out there >for just about anything. > >Good luck, >- Julie > >--> Julie Meloni >--> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >--> www.thickbook.com > >Find "Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours" at >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672323494/thickbookcom-20 > > >-- >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
