On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:29:07 -0700, Ryan Holowaychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a database that has 110,000 barcodes in it. > I am trying to create a system that I can enter barcode1 in the system and > it return a good or bad value. > I have it loading in an array at the moment. which does nto seem to work > that well as it is taking a longtime and it is causing the sytem to bog > right down. > is there a better way to loop a variable through this many codes? > > thanks > > Ryan
You are loading all of the 110,000 barcodes in an array variable? Aren't you using any database server? (postgres, mysql..etc) Let the database server do the searching. :) ---- ramil http://ramil.sagum.net -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
