Re: [PHP-DB] database/form help needed

2002-01-06 Thread Neil Thomson
try using the rand function.. eg... $rand=rand(1,10); input type='text' name='id$rand' but that migth get a same number more then once... my suggestion is this $checkboxid=1; // Start of the loop echo input type='text' name='id$checkboxid'; // end of loop $checkboxid = $checkboxid + 1; that

[PHP-DB] Probably an easy question - blank search fields (PHP MySQL)

2002-01-06 Thread Gary Smith
Hiya, I'm writing a backend in MySQL with a PHP frontend. One of the PHP pages searches the database. The user can enter as many or as few fields as they like. I then search the database using this code: $result = mysql_query(select * from equipment where (category='$category') and (description

[PHP-DB] Re: Confused Newbie - PHP/Mysql/Apache timeout

2002-01-06 Thread pwestergaard
Hi, I really hope someone can help me with this. I'm new to PHP; just got started late last year. I've put together a MySQL/Apache/PHP system to manage contacts. It's all running locally on my Win2k system. I have installed phpmyadmin also, and I used that utility to populate my tables. So

[PHP-DB] Re: Probably an easy question - blank search fields (PHP MySQL)

2002-01-06 Thread George Nicolae
if (empty($var)) { } else { } -- Best regards, George Nicolae IT Manager ___ X-Playin - Professional Web Design www.x-playin.f2s.com Gary Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hiya, I'm writing a backend in MySQL with a PHP

Re: [PHP-DB] Probably an easy question - blank search fields (PHP MySQL)

2002-01-06 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
$result = mysql_query(select * from equipment where (category='$category') and (description like '%$description') and (roomloc='$roomloc') and (quantity like '%$quantity') and (serialno like '%$serialno') and (patdue like '%$patdue'),$db); Gary Smith wrote: Hiya, I'm writing a backend in

Re: [PHP-DB] database/form help needed

2002-01-06 Thread Indioblanco
You could setup an autoincremented unique integer field in your db table(s), then when you fetch the row from the table use the id in generating your checkbox name. -ib Chris Payne wrote: Hi there everyone, I have a loop which goes through my MySQL database and some PHP code which grabs

[PHP-DB] PHP/MySql - address book

2002-01-06 Thread sg
Hi, I'm trying to do a sort of address book where I'd put all information about anybody or any company from which I receive informtation (friend, people from work, hotels, places...) An entry starts with a name, then I can have any type of information. The table I'm using has a lot of fields,

Re: [PHP-DB] database/form help needed

2002-01-06 Thread olinux
Use input type=checkbox name=id[? echo $id ?] Then you'll have an array of the boxes checked with the id as the array key. olinux --- Neil Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try using the rand function.. eg... $rand=rand(1,10); input type='text' name='id$rand' but that migth get a same

[PHP-DB] Re: PHP/MySql - address book

2002-01-06 Thread George Nicolae
look at http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/228 -- Best regards, George Nicolae IT Manager ___ X-Playin - Professional Web Design www.x-playin.f2s.com Sg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I'm trying to do a sort of

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_num_rows

2002-01-06 Thread Richard S. Crawford
It would help if we could see the actual query. It sounds like the problem is a syntax error in the query itself. At 11:52 AM 1/6/2002, Gurhan Ozen wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem with mysql connectivety which is making me nuts. If the query is select blah, blah from table (i.e.

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql_num_rows

2002-01-06 Thread Gurhan Ozen
I am pretty sure that the query is correct. here is the actual query: $query=select distinct(nodeid), nodename from books where bookid=$bookid; $result=mysql_query($query); $num_results=mysql_num_rows($result); I have loaded a book into the

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql_num_rows

2002-01-06 Thread Richard S. Crawford
Hm, if the result you want is the number of distinct nodeid values, why not use a query like this: select count(distinct(nodeid)) as nodecount from books where bookid = $bookid; Then the number of nodeid's is stored in nodecount. You might also want to look into the GROUP BY clause. That

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql_num_rows

2002-01-06 Thread Gurhan Ozen
hmm that's an idea... I stil don't get why mysql_num_rows wouldn't work with WHERE clause but i will try to do a workaround with what you said below. Although it will be a little extra coding I guess I don't have any other choice:) Thank you very much for your help:) Gurhan -Original

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_num_rows

2002-01-06 Thread DL Neil
Gurhan, The first rule with all of these problems is to insert error-checking statements. There are two types: firstly the MySQL function set includes error number and error (msg) text facilities; and secondly the addition of 'debug' echo statements, eg to be absolutely sure what $query looks

[PHP-DB] RE: [PHP] Connect to IBM DB2

2002-01-06 Thread Maciej Uhlig
This is probably not what you want but I found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.configure.php something like that: --with-ibm-db2[=DIR] Include IBM DB2 support. DIR is the DB2 base install directory, defaults to /home/db2inst1/sqllib. Maybe you can make use of it, I don't run IBM DB2.

RE: [PHP-DB] Building a user preference site

2002-01-06 Thread Danny Kelly
Thanks Rich, I am unclear how to merge the login to the preferences. Check out my code for my login. Right below it is the login2.php,login_done.html,admin.php where will I merge the user preferences portion within this script.. Thanks for all your help.. Here is the test url -

[PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Barry Rumsey
Hi I have three tables set out below: xp_artist: artist_id , artist _name xp_sings: artist_id , songs_id xp_songs: songs_id , song_name , lyrics I can not figure out how to query and return the results for a query like: select song_name FROM xp_artist,xp_sings,xp_songs WHERE

Re: [PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
You seem to be doing it fine as far as I can see, except for song_id which should be songs_id in the query... Bogdan Barry Rumsey wrote: Hi I have three tables set out below: xp_artist: artist_id , artist _name xp_sings: artist_id , songs_id xp_songs: songs_id , song_name , lyrics I

Re: [PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Barry Rumsey
I did not see that ( I must be blind hehe ). One other question , I have the lyrics also stored in the database, how can I create a link so that when the query is returned they can click on song name and the lyrics will be viewed? - Original Message - From: Bogdan Stancescu [EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Your query looks fine, except that it should be xp_sings.songs_id. What you are trying to resolve is a many to many relationship where many artists can sing the same song, hence you have created the table xp_sings. This is also known as a pivot table. What problem are you having? Have you

Re: [PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Barry, Execute your query, fetching song_id as well as song_name, returning the result handle to $result (or any name you're comfortable with) and present your song titles like so .. while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { printf(a href=\%s?songs_id=%s\%s /a \n, $LYRIC_URL,

[PHP-DB] php script connect to mySQL problem

2002-01-06 Thread Vu Hoang Huynh
Hi all, I'm a newbie to PHP and mySQL and I'm currently running PHP+mySQL on my Linux 2.2.16 kernel. Every time I try to connect to mySQL from a php page, I get this error message: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mys ql.sock' (111) What does that

Re: [PHP-DB] php script connect to mySQL problem

2002-01-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Is mysqld running? Username? Password? At 08:30 PM 1/6/2002 -0500, Vu Hoang Huynh wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie to PHP and mySQL and I'm currently running PHP+mySQL on my Linux 2.2.16 kernel. Every time I try to connect to mySQL from a php page, I get this error message: ERROR 2002: Can't

Re: [PHP-DB] php script connect to mySQL problem

2002-01-06 Thread Vu Hoang Huynh
Yes, mysqld was running. Username and password were provided via this function call $db = mysql_connect(localhost,username,password); I have to same problem when trying to connect to mysql server whenever I use any user other than root. So basically whenever I try to run mysql using root account

[PHP-DB] version conflict

2002-01-06 Thread Sommai Fongnamthip
Dear List, I was installed mysql-3.23.47 in my Linux box with PHP. I could shown version correctly with mysql command line or any windows client tools. It still shown in phpinfo with version 3.23.37 (old version before upgrade). What wrong? Did somone know about Zend

Re: [PHP-DB] help on mulit query

2002-01-06 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Just echo a link of the form a href=\lyrics.php?song_id=$song_id\Click for lyrics/a and use the incoming song_id in lyrics.php to get it from the database. Bogdan Barry Rumsey wrote: I did not see that ( I must be blind hehe ). One other question , I have the lyrics also stored in the

[PHP-DB] Database Connection Properties

2002-01-06 Thread patrick gibson
I'm new to PHP, and I have a question regarding the storage of connection properties to the database. I have a site on a shared (Unix) server. I'm adding some PHP to a section which will be database-driven. I'm concerned about storing the username and password to my database (some of the data

[PHP-DB] I think i saw this somewhere....

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Carrera
Hi All I think i saw a php script somewhere on my web travels, that allows you to include sub domain reg to your web site. it allowed you to offer http://yourname.choiceofdomainname.com so the visitor can have thier name in front of a domain name reged to our webspace. If i remeber right, it

RE: [PHP-DB] I think i saw this somewhere....

2002-01-06 Thread Beau Lebens
*being a smart-ass from your email signature* sure... you can download the script from .. just kidding :) the best way to do this as far as I know would be to have a PHP script which had write-access to your apache conf files, which then just added in the required lines and restarted

[PHP-DB] Re: I think i saw this somewhere....

2002-01-06 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Dave Carrera wrote: Hi All I think i saw a php script somewhere on my web travels, that allows you to include sub domain reg to your web site. it allowed you to offer http://yourname.choiceofdomainname.com so the visitor can have thier name in front of a domain name reged