[PHP-DB] Array question

2002-11-08 Thread nikos
Does anybody know how to remove an item from an array? Let's say $array('banna', 'apple','cherry') foreach ($array as $value) { if ($value=='chery') DELETE $value FROM $array ... Thanks

[PHP-DB] ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread Steve Vernon
Hiya, Just wondering what is the rough idea of speed of a server like this is holding a database with millions of records. I know its difficult, depends on the data stored etc. Its basically storing an index int and about 5 or so char field (50 long). In total I want to store 500 million

[PHP-DB] Variables

2002-11-08 Thread Steve Dodkins
Hi The following will print the variables ($tim1 and $tim2) correctly but the IF statement using the same vars will not work, it will only work as below which seems to work by comparing the text values of the 2 variables $tim1 $tim2. while($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $tim1=timea;

[PHP-DB] textarea!!

2002-11-08 Thread Siamak Sadeghianfar
Hi I've written a guestbook in php user writes a message in a texarea and in the code I insert it in a table and then in showpage I sow it to him.before I insert the message into table , I use addslashes() and htmlspecialchars(). the prblem is that , when I retrieve the message from the table

RE: [PHP-DB] textarea!!

2002-11-08 Thread Snijders, Mark
check out the nl2br() function!! good luck -Original Message- From: Siamak Sadeghianfar [mailto:siamak116;hotmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 8 november 2002 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] textarea!! Hi I've written a guestbook in php user writes a message in a texarea and

Re: [PHP-DB] How to list Oracle table names

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
SELECT * FROM user_tables; will give you the list of tables and properties. I think the table name's columns is called: 'table_name' so this should be: SELECT table_name FROM user_tables; -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I'm very new at this. Can I list

Re: [PHP-DB] Array question

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
to precise: $array = Array('name'='Maxim', 'surname'='Maletsky'); unset($array['name']); // now array has this structure: // Array('surname'='Maletsky') -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : On Friday 08 November 2002 17:25, nikos wrote: Does

Re: [PHP-DB] ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
Steve Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : Hiya, Just wondering what is the rough idea of speed of a server like this is holding a database with millions of records. I know its difficult, depends on the data stored etc. Also rather the design and, whether do you really need to store it

[PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Ihrig
Hello All! i am new to the list to PHP.. So i have a recordset that displays my contacts in a table. the headers of the columns look like this. tda href=default2.php?orderBy=priLastNameLast Name/a/td so when a user clicks on it It will Re-Sort the rs by priLastName Asc. what i want to do is

Re: [PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
Let's see: ? $dir = ((isset ($_GET['dir'])) ? (int) $_GET['dir'] : 1); if (!$dir) $direction = 'desc'; $dir = ($dir ? 0 : 1); ? tda href=default2.php?orderBy=?=$colname?dir=?= $dir?Last Name/a/td This is the general idea. $dir will toggle between 1 and 0. There are more compact ways

[PHP-DB] indexing on existing DB

2002-11-08 Thread Jason Vincent
(I know this is more of a mySQL question than PHP, but allow me this one if you would...) In MySQL, is there any difference between creating an index at table creation time, and creating an index on an existing table? Does an index created on an existing table re-index itself after each

RE: [PHP-DB] Variables

2002-11-08 Thread Hutchins, Richard
It would seem that your IF statement, as it is written below, evaluates to true every time because I'm guessing that the hexadecimal value of the string timeb is larger than the hexadecimal value of timea. Like I said, just a guess. I'm also guessing that you actually want to compare two values

Re: [PHP-DB] indexing on existing DB

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
Index is always re-indexing itself on INSERT/UPDATE. Roughly, I don't think there is any difference in when you create an index before or after table is populated. -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : (I know this is more of a mySQL question than

Re: [PHP-DB] indexing on existing DB

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
Except when you have a million records, which may take a few seconds to build. :-) Marco - php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:12, Maxim Maletsky wrote: Index is always

Re: [PHP-DB] ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 08 November 2002 23:08, Maxim Maletsky wrote: Steve Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : Hiya, Just wondering what is the rough idea of speed of a server like this is holding a database with millions of records. I know its difficult, depends on the data stored etc. Also

RE: [PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Ihrig
well i tried that.. but it out puts the right number. but it is not taking that var to switch ACS or DESC... http://localhost/php/default2.php?orderBy=priLastNamedir=0 http://localhost/php/default2.php?orderBy=priLastNamedir=1 /* here we set up out order by clause */ $orderBy = 'priLastName';

Re: [PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 09 November 2002 00:26, Paul Ihrig wrote: well i tried that.. but it out puts the right number. but it is not taking that var to switch ACS or DESC... http://localhost/php/default2.php?orderBy=priLastNamedir=0 http://localhost/php/default2.php?orderBy=priLastNamedir=1 /* here

RE: [PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Marco Tabini
I think you might be missing a = sign in your if statement. Marco - php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:26, Paul Ihrig wrote: well i tried that.. but it out puts the right

Re: [PHP-DB] ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Beckman
I was running a site on a dual 800 CPU, 1GB ram, dual mirrored 18GB drives, doing about 16.8GB per day on average, including PHP/HTML code. The system had several tables (~20), some regularly accessed, some not. The biggest table was a log table of about 2.5+ million rows. Ran reports from it

Re: [PHP-DB] Polls?

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Beckman
Use the dual table questions and answers suggestion before. Then just use a loop: $question = mysql_query(select * from questions where id={$this_question}); while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($question)) { $answers = mysql_query(select * from answers where qid={$r[id]}); while ($s =

RE: [PHP-DB] Order DB through url toggle

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Ihrig
Thanks Guys.. This seemed to do the trick /* and the desc asc */ $dir = ((isset ($_GET['dir'])) ? (int) $_GET['dir'] : 1); if (!$dir) $dir = ($dir ? 0 : 1); if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['dir'] == 0) { $diri = 'DESC'; } if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['dir'] == 1) { $diri = 'ASC'; }

[PHP-DB] Search and Replace

2002-11-08 Thread Ryan Holowaychuk
I am trying to do a search and replace into a text file that will then get saved to a new name once the info has been replaced. So I have been able to do this with simple ..['name'] variable replace. But how do I get it to save the results into a text file. Program work Flow - for creating a

Re: [PHP-DB] Polls?

2002-11-08 Thread Leif K-Brooks
The problem is, I need to make a page that shows all of the polls, and one query per poll would kill the server. Peter Beckman wrote: Use the dual table questions and answers suggestion before. Then just use a loop: $question = mysql_query(select * from questions where id={$this_question});

Re: [PHP-DB] Polls?

2002-11-08 Thread Mihail Bota
Leif, off the wall...what if you have a table for question, identified with an unique ID, and another where you store the results? BTW: how are the questions? Yes/No, or multiple choices, or combination of these two styles? On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Leif K-Brooks wrote: The problem is, I need to

[PHP-DB] Re: ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread John Lim
Hi, I've dealt with databases with about 100 million records (100Gb of data/indexes), using Oracle, and i'm glad we did. If you database is 5 times larger than our largest one, you definitely you need Oracle or something high end. Steve Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: ROugh idea of speed

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
d.. 20 GB traffic/month e.. RedHat LInux 7.2 Red Hat Advanced Server is better - it has Oracle patches for better asynch i/o performance. If for Oracle, I'd then recommend SuSe. -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

RE: [PHP-DB] indexing on existing DB

2002-11-08 Thread John W. Holmes
In MySQL, is there any difference between creating an index at table creation time, and creating an index on an existing table? Does an index created on an existing table re-index itself after each insert/update, or does it only index itself once - when you create the index? In the end, it's

Re: [PHP-DB] indexing on existing DB

2002-11-08 Thread Maxim Maletsky
But, remember - you don't rebuild completely an index - you rather add to it. So, there are three scenarios: 1. Q: You create the table to then send into it lots of data row per row A: create the table first, then build an idex on it once. 2. Q: You have to constantly be adding the data

[PHP-DB] multiple mysql query in PHP mysql_query?

2002-11-08 Thread Qunfeng Dong
Hi, Can anybody give me a simple example of using PHP's mysql_query to perform mulitple mysql queries. I am using MySQl 3.23, trying to use create temporary table and insert ... select to overcome the lack of union operation in that verion of MySQL. Thanks! Qunfeng Dong

RE: [PHP-DB] multiple mysql query in PHP mysql_query?

2002-11-08 Thread John W. Holmes
Hi, Can anybody give me a simple example of using PHP's mysql_query to perform mulitple mysql queries. I am using MySQl 3.23, trying to use create temporary table and insert ... select to overcome the lack of union operation in that verion of MySQL. Thanks! Mysql_query() can only do one

[PHP-DB] Re: multiple mysql query in PHP mysql_query?

2002-11-08 Thread Qunfeng Dong
Thanks a lot! Great quick help!!! --- Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how to merge all the results from each mysql_query. $result1 = mysql_query(CREATE temporary table tempTable ...); $result2 = mysql_query(insert ...); ... $resultn-1 = mysql_query(select * from