On 3/3/06, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/03/2006 2:49 PM, benifactor wrote: > > thank you. the table does have and id feild that auto increments, however if > > you delete a user there will be a gap between the users between which would > > not be what is not acurate enough. thank you for you help. simple fix. i > > should have caught it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anthony Ettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "benifactor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Mysql Rows > > > > > > define $1 = 0 outside your loop. > > > > i'm curious why you are relying on row-order in the database? > > Typically you'd have a PRIMARY KEY auto_increment for something like > > this. > > > > > > I have to agree with Anthony - why are you using row order to determine > something relating to users? I couldn't follow your brief explanation > above, and the fact that you're doing it sets off some soft alarm bells > about the design of your application. Why is it important that there > shouldn't be any 'gaps' between users? Because you want to know how many > users there are? If so, simply do a SELECT COUNT(*) on the table > whenever / wherever you need to know. > > If you're using it for IDs for the users, it's generally a bad idea to > reuse this type of information. If you have some other purpose, I'm > extremely curious about what it might be. > > Much warmth, > > planetthoughtful > --- > "Lost in thought" > http://www.planetthoughtful.org > >
What I was getting at is you get the unique id for the username (if you allow username changes, then you want a unique key to do your joins on from other tables). -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
