[PHP-DB] how to connect to dbase

2004-10-15 Thread Swapan Mazumdar
Hi All, I am quite new to php. I have a requirement to query dbase file to implement searching on table columns. Now I am following a basic approach using dbase_get_record_with_names($fileHandler, $iterationIndex). This seems to be a rudimentary approach and has performance bottleneck. For the

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting Date for mysql

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
See below: --- John Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure it's the date that's causing the rejection? What does mysql_error() say? No, I'm not sure. At first the date was being accepted but wrong in the database. It was setting it to 1/1/2000. Someone suggested I add '' around the

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting Date for mysql

2004-10-15 Thread David Robley
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:26, Stuart Felenstein wrote: See below: --- John Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure it's the date that's causing the rejection? What does mysql_error() say? No, I'm not sure. At first the date was being accepted but wrong in the database. It was

Re: [PHP-DB] Converting Date for mysql

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Yes, my apologies to the list! Stuart --- David Robley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest that as well as echoing mysql_error() you also echo your query; that way you can see _exactly_ what is being passed to mysql and you can resolve problems like this simply and without resorting to

[PHP-DB] pdf

2004-10-15 Thread balwantsingh
hi all, i want to how i can save the data retrieved from mysql through php in pdf format. thanks for your help in advance. with best wishes balwant -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] Help: Transactions not working

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
If you see the code I have the begin , then the $query follows. With both statements present, only the second one does the insert. If I // or remove the second, the first one takes. Am I missing something here ? Stuart Code: function begin() { mysql_query(BEGIN); } function commit() {

Re: [PHP-DB] Help: Transactions not working

2004-10-15 Thread John Holmes
Stuart Felenstein wrote: If you see the code I have the begin , then the $query follows. With both statements present, only the second one does the insert. If I // or remove the second, the first one takes. Am I missing something here ? Yep... you're missing a mysql_query() call for each

Re: [PHP-DB] pdf

2004-10-15 Thread mohamad AKL
check this - Original Message - From: balwantsingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:23 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] pdf hi all, i want to how i can save the data retrieved from mysql through php in pdf format. thanks for your help in advance.

RE: [PHP-DB] how to connect to dbase

2004-10-15 Thread Swapan Mazumdar
I can't believe this, my problem doesn't attract any attention. But I am quite sure that everybody else besides me has more experience than me in this specific field. Anyone pl, is my question absurd or just impossible. -Original Message- From: Swapan Mazumdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] Help: Transactions not working

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
That made a world of difference! :) Thank you. But - I want to confirm, am I still using transactions even though I'm issuing individual query calls for each insert. And, if I can ask another question to the list : In this line (from the second insert) VALUES (null, LAST_INSERT_ID(), ..);

Re: [PHP-DB] how to connect to dbase

2004-10-15 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 15 October 2004 19:11, Swapan Mazumdar wrote: I can't believe this, my problem doesn't attract any attention. But I am quite sure that everybody else besides me has more experience than me in this specific field. Anyone pl, is my question absurd or just impossible. I may be wrong,

RE: [PHP-DB] pdf

2004-10-15 Thread Bastien Koert
www.fpdf.org bastien From: balwantsingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] pdf Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:53:00 +0530 hi all, i want to how i can save the data retrieved from mysql through php in pdf format. thanks for your help in advance. with

Re: [PHP-DB] Help: Transactions not working

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
John, Big thank you! for your help. I had been trying out the mysql_insert_id and was not having luck. It's working great (with just a few more bumps to get over). --- John Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Felenstein wrote: But - I want to confirm, am I still using transactions

Re: [PHP-DB] Help: Transactions working but question / issue

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Here is my situation , not sure how I should handle it. I have this multi page form, at the end I use mysql transaction to get the data into all the tables. All the tables are innodb with the exception of one. The last page has one field which takes a copy/paste of a document, so it's a text

Re: [PHP-DB] pdf

2004-10-15 Thread Matt M.
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[PHP-DB] moving from MS Access

2004-10-15 Thread Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office)
I have finally convinced my office manager to move from Access to MySQL. Unfortunately the office users are used to Access forms instead of web forms. I have attempted to make my web forms look as much like the Access forms they are used to but I am not a web designer. Does anyone know a good

Re: [PHP-DB] how to connect to dbase

2004-10-15 Thread Robert Twitty
Try odbtp, http://odbtp.sourceforge.net. -- bob On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Swapan Mazumdar wrote: Hi All, I am quite new to php. I have a requirement to query dbase file to implement searching on table columns. Now I am following a basic approach using dbase_get_record_with_names($fileHandler,

[PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Trying to get array of values into table. Each value will be part of a new record, so it's a loop. I am getting a parse error though and for further down in the code though I know this is what's causing it. Is there anything wrong with this statement ? if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] )

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Where would that go? Stuart --- Matt M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] ) ) { foreach ( $_SESSION['l_industry'] as $p ) { $query = INSERT INTO Profiles_Industries (ProfileID, IndID) VALUES ($LID, $p); } do you have a } for the if

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Matt M.
if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] ) ) { foreach ( $_SESSION['l_industry'] as $p ) { $query = INSERT INTO Profiles_Industries (ProfileID,IndID) VALUES ($LID, $p); } //foreach ( $_SESSION['l_industry'] as $p ) } //if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] ) ) --

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Yep, I had found it shortly before. Only it's not looping. It is taking last value only. Stuart --- Matt M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] ) ) { foreach ( $_SESSION['l_industry'] as $p ) { $query = INSERT INTO Profiles_Industries

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Matt M.
where is your insert statement? I am guessing it is after your loop if ( is_array( $_SESSION['l_industry'] ) ) { foreach ( $_SESSION['l_industry'] as $p ) { $query = INSERT INTO Profiles_Industries (ProfileID,IndID) VALUES ($LID, $p); /This is where

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Actually it did just loop. I need to test again. The insert statement is the the one $query = So it's after yes, but contained in the braces, like you diagram below. Stuart --- Matt M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is your insert statement? I am guessing it is after your loop if (

Re: [PHP-DB] Array and insert statement throws error

2004-10-15 Thread Stuart Felenstein
Hopefully these functions will explain it. I'm starting the transaction, then provided it takes with no errors it gets the commit function begin() { mysql_query(BEGIN); } function commit() { mysql_query(COMMIT); } function rollback() { mysql_query(ROLLBACK); } begin(); $query = INSERT

Re: [PHP-DB] moving from MS Access

2004-10-15 Thread John Holmes
Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office) wrote: I have finally convinced my office manager to move from Access to MySQL. Unfortunately the office users are used to Access forms instead of web forms. I have attempted to make my web forms look as much like the Access forms they are used to but I am

[PHP-DB] MySQL max records

2004-10-15 Thread ApexEleven
I tried a little research on the mysql list but didn't find what I was looking for.What is the limit of a MySQL database? How many hundreds of thousands of records can a database hold before it gets too sluggish to work on a production server? thanks, --

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL max records

2004-10-15 Thread -{ Rene Brehmer }-
How many records it can hold before becoming too slow for practical use depends entirely of the hardware that makes up the server. Current versions of MySQL has a finite limit of 2^64 records per table, but how many billion records you can shove into it before you start seeing performance

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL max records

2004-10-15 Thread John Holmes
ApexEleven wrote: I tried a little research on the mysql list but didn't find what I was looking for.What is the limit of a MySQL database? How many hundreds of thousands of records can a database hold before it gets too sluggish to work on a production server? Check the output from phpinfo()...

[PHP-DB] Form Processing

2004-10-15 Thread Ron Piggott
I would like to know if you are able to create a PHP web form that has different SUBMIT buttons --- or if you used the HTML command SELECT NAME=approval_command OPTIONDelete Record OPTIONUpdate And Approve For Listing OPTIONFor Management /SELECT Basically I want the delete record to find the

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] How to optimize select of random record in DB ?

2004-10-15 Thread Gareth Williams
What about in MySQL: SELECT personID from persons ORDER BY RAND(NOW()) LIMIT 1 If the table is large, then the following might be better: LOCK TABLES foo READ; SELECT FLOOR(RAND() * COUNT(*)) AS rand_row FROM foo; SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT $rand_row, 1; UNLOCK TABLES; There's a whole discussion on

RE: [PHP-DB] How to optimize select of random record in DB ?

2004-10-15 Thread Bastien Koert
skip the two step process and use RAND in the sql statement SELECT * FROM table1, table2 WHERE a=b AND cd ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1000; bastien From: -{ Rene Brehmer }- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] How to optimize select of random record in DB ? Date: