Re: [PHP-DB] Dates in MYSQL

2002-04-18 Thread DL Neil
Hi Alex, You seem to be struggling with both MySQL and PHP at the same time! Must be generating high frustration levels. Have you got yourself a tutorial/book to work from? I'll go with Mike's suggestion, although I'd go for a 'one stop shop' in MySQL - as long as we get the required result

[PHP-DB] php.exe crash

2002-04-18 Thread Hermann Otteneder
hi, is here anyone how haves a solution for following problem: $SQL = select * from [ReferencesComplete]; $result = mssql_query($SQL,$IDconnection); // this simple code let crash the php.exe... i've with a mysql no problems with this code but with MS-SQL comes this error!! i hope someone has

[PHP-DB] newsletter

2002-04-18 Thread its me
hi guys, i wanna make a news letter as follows: i sell items within certain categories,so whenever a buyer is registered he choose some categories to contribute to my newsletter with: whenever a new item is added within this category i send him an email with that. i'm storing the mails in

[PHP-DB] troubles with select * from... to a ms-sql-server

2002-04-18 Thread Hermann Otteneder
hi, i try to get some data from our ms-sql-server the following statement: $SQL = SELECT * FROM [ReferencesComplete]; causes an error of the php.exe! i tried many various of this statement but nothing helped. ether it came no error and the [$result = mssql_query($SQL,$IDconnection);]

Re: [PHP-DB] Extracting the essence!

2002-04-18 Thread #Linux
Hi All. Thanx Lisi, it worked. But more to come. Have modified the code but, cant get the output i want. $test= preg_replace ($search, $replace, $dokument); while (list ($key, $val) = each($test)) { if ($key = 5 || $key == 6) { //do nothing } else { echo $key =

[PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread Camelia Enderby
Does anybody know what this warning error means: REG_BADRPT? Cami -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
basically it means that you have an invalid regular expression pattern in a regex function. i think it's something to do with the . * ? + symbols - but just take a good look at your pattern and somewhere in there it is invalid :) HTH Beau // -Original Message- // From: Camelia Enderby

[PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Ron Allen
I would like to make it so that my helpdesk section can append entries in their Master Station Log. Update replaces the entryany clues?? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] stored procedures with ODBC

2002-04-18 Thread kprinz
Are there any consideration for a ODBC-Driver, which is able to handle the return values of stored procedures in PHP?? We´re using the new ODBC driver for the IBM DB2 which uses unixODBC and it works fine, even with stored procedures which produce temporary tables. For stored procedures which

Re: [PHP-DB] drop list inserts

2002-04-18 Thread Christian Schneider
Hi Barry, Barry Rumsey wrote: $query_id = mysql_query(INSERT INTO music_album VALUES (NULL, '$music_artist.id' ,'$album' ,NULL ,NULL)); echo $artist_name and $album has been added to the Could someone please point out what I'm doing wrong? is the value of

[PHP-DB] Re: newsletter

2002-04-18 Thread David Robley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... hi guys, i wanna make a news letter as follows: i sell items within certain categories,so whenever a buyer is registered he choose some categories to contribute to my newsletter with: whenever a new item is added within this

Re: [PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread David Robley
In article 005301c1e6b4$b67afde0$af00a8c0@cami, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Does anybody know what this warning error means: REG_BADRPT? Cami Perhaps if you could post the bit of code that causes it? -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi! Quod subigo farinam -- PHP Database Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and OCI NLS behaviour

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Edmondson
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:54, Miguel Carvalho wrote: Or if that is not available for you to edit you could always try just executing a statement to alter the session once a database connection is established. This method is a little slower. How slower? Very very slower? Can you give me

Re: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Ron Allen
Thanks Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Thursday 18 April 2002 16:51, Ron Allen wrote: I would like to make it so that my helpdesk section can append entries in their Master Station Log. Update replaces the entryany clues?? You would have

Re: [PHP-DB] REG_BADRPT

2002-04-18 Thread Camelia Enderby
Thanks David, I have sorted it. I was reading the reg expresion from a database and somebody added to the database something that I didn't make provisions for. Took me a while to see what was wrong. Thanks again. - Original Message - From: David Robley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and OCI NLS behaviour

2002-04-18 Thread Miguel Carvalho
The speed decrease is dependant on your setup. How fast your machines are and how good your network is. I ran a few quick tests on our servers and there seemed to be little effect on performance. The loss of performance was unmeasurable. I see that it's a minor issue. I'm not sure on

[PHP-DB] Updating Many Records

2002-04-18 Thread Bzdpltd
I am not sure if this is possible. I have a database, and we fetch all the records and then list them. What we need is the one field in the database to be able to be updated. Now the field will have different values for each record. Is it possible to update the table with lots of different

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: Cross DB application

2002-04-18 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Sp wrote: Can someone with database expertise who has used metabase and adodb cut through this rhetoric and give an objective view of these two packages. From what I got from this convo is that metabase is slower but more portable but adodb is faster but not as portable. No,

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: Cross DB application

2002-04-18 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Sp wrote: Can someone with database expertise who has used metabase and adodb cut through this rhetoric and give an objective view of these two packages. From what I got from this convo is that metabase is slower but more portable but adodb is faster but not as portable. No,

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: Cross DB application

2002-04-18 Thread SP
Hi Manuel, I still don't see a problem in others telling their experiences with certain packages. If someone has just used metabase or has just used adodb then I would like to hear how easy/hard it was to port to another database. -Original Message- From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] drop list inserts

2002-04-18 Thread Gurhan Ozen
Barry, All I saw was $artist_name variable that will be passed thru the form.. Can you do a echo $music_artist.id to see if it has a value .. And you still need to get rid of $query_id = in the line that you are trying to do insert. Gurhan -Original Message- From: Barry Rumsey

[PHP-DB] Puzzeling a little...

2002-04-18 Thread Trond Erling Hundal
Hey. I am making a system to publish newsarticles, send newsletter and 12 - 14 other functions/modules. I've been working on it for almost two years, therefore some of the code is pretty old. Now, I want to create a set of tables controlling what is beeing displayed in the site's menu and

RE: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Not sure if you're asking whether you can append info onto the end of a database field without having to get the previous information, but you can. UPDATE table SET MyField=CONCAT(MyField,'Appended Text') WHERE Some_ID=5; That would update the row identified by Some_ID = 5, and append Appended

RE: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Gurhan Ozen
Ron, Are we talking about appending new values to the database tables? If yes, you need to use INSERT INTO ... VALUES syntax ... If you mean to append the new values to a file , then you need to open the file in a mode. Gurhan -Original Message- From: Ron Allen [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and OCI NLS behaviour

2002-04-18 Thread Rouvas Stathis
HI, I use SuSE.6.4 with Ora.8.1.6/PHP.4.0.6. For a while, it used to be PHP/4.1.2, but I reverted to PHP/4.0.6 because of other non-Ora related problems. /etc/rc.d/apache startup script extract below extract # # set values for Oracle (need to recompile mod_php with Oracle support) # export

[PHP-DB] Import/Export data

2002-04-18 Thread Rosen Marinov
Hi, How can I import/Export data to MySQL database using PHP following formats: EDI, Access, Excel ? Where can I find information about this ? Thanks, Rosen Marinov -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] complicated transtable problem

2002-04-18 Thread andy
Hi there, I am still struggling with following problem: There are two tables in mysql 1. city fields: ID, countryid, provinceid, city containing 2.5 million entries. 2. province fields: ID, countryid, provinceid, provincename Now there are some cities without a valid

[PHP-DB] Any idea what's wrog with this query?

2002-04-18 Thread Leif K-Brooks
I have a field in one of my tables called when, which is type timestamp. I'm trying to use some of the date functions to get data from it, but it's not working. The return from mysql_error() is not helpful. Any ideas? Here's my query: $query = mysql_query(select month(when) as month,year(when)

Re: [PHP-DB] Any idea what's wrog with this query?

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Edmondson
see http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Reserved_words.html Your column called 'when' is a reserved word. Thats my first guess at your problem. I've come across this before with MySQL accepting column names that are reserved words. Try changing the column name to something else and try again. On

Re: [PHP-DB] Any idea what's wrog with this query?

2002-04-18 Thread Leif K-Brooks
It worked, thanks alot! on 4/18/02 1:43 PM, Paul Edmondson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Reserved_words.html Your column called 'when' is a reserved word. Thats my first guess at your problem. I've come across this before with MySQL accepting column names that

[PHP-DB] page expires

2002-04-18 Thread Natividad Castro
Hi to all, I have form that users fill out and submit. What I'm trying to do is not to let users to go back to the form after they have submmited, or if they go bak, make the page expires. Can someone please tell me or give an idea on how to do it? Thanks in advanced Nato -- PHP Database

RE: [PHP-DB] page expires

2002-04-18 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
http://php.sitecreative.com/faq.php -Original Message- From: Natividad Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] page expires Hi to all, I have form that users fill out and submit. What I'm trying to do is not to

[PHP-DB] page expires

2002-04-18 Thread Natividad Castro
Hi to all, I have form that users fill out and submit. What I'm trying to do is not to let users to go back to the form after they have submmited, or if they go bak, make the page expires. Can someone please tell me or give an idea on how to do it? Thanks in advanced Nato -- PHP Database

[PHP-DB] page expires

2002-04-18 Thread Natividad Castro
Hi to all, I have form that users fill out and submit. What I'm trying to do is not to let users to go back to the form after they have submmited, or if they go bak, make the page expires. Can someone please tell me or give an idea on how to do it? Thanks in advanced Nato -- PHP Database

[PHP-DB] Re: complicated transtable problem

2002-04-18 Thread Hugh Bothwell
Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi there, I am still struggling with following problem: There are two tables in mysql 1. city fields: ID, countryid, provinceid, city containing 2.5 million entries. 2. province

Re: [PHP-DB] drop list inserts

2002-04-18 Thread Barry Rumsey
Yes I see what I have done wrong. I named it music_artist instead of nameing it music_artist.id Sorry about that but thanks for the help. I think I'll need more help as I'm still learning. -Original Message- From: Christian Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Rumsey [EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] Import/Export data

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
Hi The most universal way would be to export the table to CSV format. You can then use LOAD DATA INFILE phpMyAdmin to load it into the database. http://www.mysql.com/doc/L/O/LOAD_DATA.html HTH Peter --- Excellence in internet and open source

RE: [PHP-DB] page expires

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
Add META HTTP-EQUIV=expires CONTENT=0 META HTTP-EQUIV=Pragma CONTENT=no-cache to your header, which will tell the browser not to cache the page, and use the POST method form action=script.php name=entryform method=post HTH Peter --- Excellence in

RE: [PHP-DB] Updating Many Records

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
IF there is a formula for the value of quantity eg Quantity = Quantity -1 (UPDATE table SET Quantity = Quantity-1 ) you need to do an update statement for each row EG UPDATE table SET Quantity = 9 WHERE Field = Book3 HTH Peter --- Excellence in

RE: [PHP-DB] Updating Many Records oops

2002-04-18 Thread Peter Lovatt
Dont think it made sense last time (too little coffee, too much work!) try again IF there is a formula for the value of quantity eg Quantity = Quantity -1 (UPDATE table SET Quantity = Quantity-1 ) IF there is no formual you need to do an update statement for each row EG UPDATE table

RE: [PHP-DB] appending new entry to old entries

2002-04-18 Thread Beau Lebens
there might even be some cool SQL you can use tho, which would avoid having to get the data out and then put it back in again. I *think* (don't quote me on this) I remeber seeing something like UPDATE myTable SET myField = CONCAT(myField + 'new string of stuff here') WHERE myID='1' HTH beau

[PHP-DB] Re: Import/Export data

2002-04-18 Thread Steff
mysql - Excel what I do very often an what really works great is (escpecially when customers need some download feature for db data for word/mail/excel processing and have no sql/phpMyAdmin knowledge) build a html data table using php: // file download_table.php table ?php while (...) ? tr

[PHP-DB] Efficien search queries

2002-04-18 Thread eat pasta type fasta
I have simple db wik names, links and short (less then 1000 chars) descriptions. I do offer a search (with the select like %variable% method) but it seems to be very dumb, on single phrases it goes fine on combined it it very bad. Is there a way (link, advice) to spicy it up a bit so the user

Re: [PHP-DB] Efficien search queries

2002-04-18 Thread Marius Ursache
hi do you use OR and AND ? select * from table where pasta like %spagetti% or pasta like %macaroni% ? eat pasta type fasta a écrit : I have simple db wik names, links and short (less then 1000 chars) descriptions. I do offer a search (with the select like %variable% method) but it seems