Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-12 Thread leo g. divinagracia iii
if you are storing a bunch of T/F, you can store 8 of them into a single byte... each bit position will represent one "question"... you just have to do some BIT manipulation on your end... andy wrote: > Hi there, > > I am searching for the best way to store true or false inside a MySQL DB. > W

Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-11 Thread Jim Hunter
se globals there as well avaialable to all your programs without thinking about it again. Remember, keep your code readable, runable and reusable! Jim Hunter Diamond Computing ---Original Message--- From: andy Date: Saturday, August 10, 2002 07:40:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-11 Thread Mark Middleton
Andy, I do use the "ENUM" technique quite a bit, with good results. it's even easier if you set the ENUM values to 1 and 0, then when you do a database query, you don't have to read the string, you can simply check for it's presence. Here's a fictitious example: In user_table, make a field for

Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-11 Thread Andy
oh... no I ment it in a different way.. somehow.. declare 1 enum value and then set it or not. Search for NULL or not NULL values instead of false /true. in this direction, but .. hey does nobody do this like that?? Andy -- http://www.globos

Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-10 Thread Raquel Rice
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:41:56 +0200 "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I am searching for the best way to store true or false inside > > > a MySQL DB. With best I mean the most data efficient way and > > > in the same time the best for fast searching later on the > > > t

Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-10 Thread andy
hmm.. thats how I am doing it right now. There might be a better way?! "Raquel Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:46:54 +0200 > "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I am searching for the

Re: [PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-10 Thread Raquel Rice
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:46:54 +0200 "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am searching for the best way to store true or false inside a > MySQL DB. With best I mean the most data efficient way and in the > same time the best for fast searching later on the table to find > all which

[PHP-DB] best way to stare true, false

2002-08-10 Thread andy
Hi there, I am searching for the best way to store true or false inside a MySQL DB. With best I mean the most data efficient way and in the same time the best for fast searching later on the table to find all which are false, or true. I think I did read something about a way to do this with ENUM,