Re: TIMESTAMP not acting as I'd like

2002-03-06 Thread Douglas Forrest
it going out of sync from ad hoc update queries). - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Douglas Forrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:54 AM Subject: Re: TIMESTAMP not acting as I'd like > At 07:43 06/03/2002 -0500, you

Re: Update syntax

2002-01-31 Thread Douglas Forrest
You can't in a single SQL statement in MySQL: MySQL does not allow updates based upon joins. Program around it using whatever language (perl, php, etc.) that you're running the SQL statements from. - Original Message - From: "Vadim Kulikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: help please, patter matching problem

2002-01-12 Thread Douglas Forrest
Oops! And switch "=" to "like" and add quotes: $sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT Contacts FROM Info WHERE Name like '%$sname%' "); $sth->execute(); - Original Message - From: "Douglas Forrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

Re: help please, patter matching problem

2002-01-12 Thread Douglas Forrest
No closing quotes in prepare. Also, I've never seen code that's looks quite like that; this may be cleaner: $sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT Contacts FROM Info WHERE Name=%$sname%"); $sth->execute(); - Original Message - From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturda

Re: apostrophe's in PHP & MySQL

2002-01-08 Thread Douglas Forrest
single quotes must be proceded by "\" -- use PHP's addslashes function on the field before insert: field = addslashes(field); see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php - Original Message - From: "Tim Thorburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Ja