RE: [PHP-DB] Seperate Tables for Same Data?

2001-08-31 Thread Walter, Marcel
Which database do you use ? I don´t know mySql ... but I know Sybase very well and there you have something called Triggers ... [Cite SybaseDoc] A trigger is a stored procedure that goes into effect when you insert, delete, or update data in a table [/CITE] You could say for example Create

[PHP-DB] Re: Database Transactions and HTTP statelessness

2001-08-31 Thread John Lim
There is no need to use transactions if you are dealing with 1 table. Have a version column in the table which is numeric. When you first select/edit the record, store the version number. When you update, use: update table set version = version + 1, data = ... where key=$id and version =

Re: [PHP-DB] SQL problem

2001-08-31 Thread Dobromir Velev
Hi, Are there any error messages? Just a guess - may be this will work Select $tbl_virtual.thumb1,$tbl_descriptions.short_desc FROM $tbl_virtual left join $tbl_descriptions on $tbl_virtual.id_property=$tbl_descriptions.id_property WHERE $tbl_virtual.id_property=$link Dobromir Velev

[PHP-DB] insert date problem

2001-08-31 Thread simon . pospisil
I get the following error when I try the statement below. Through elimination I know it is the dates that are causing the problem. I have set the date format to this: alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT = '-MM-DD'; $sql_season: insert into season (id, code, start_date, end_date) values (16,

[PHP-DB] Opt-In Request Re: Php-db@lists.php.net

2001-08-31 Thread abundantliving
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[PHP-DB] PHP and ms Access

2001-08-31 Thread user
Hello, I am builing a microsoft access database. Now wants the compagny I created it for me to use it to make dynamic webpages. The problem is that I am new at this. Can somebody please explain the basics of integrating a MS Access databse with php into a webpage? I thank you in advance,

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and ms Access

2001-08-31 Thread Andrey Hristov
I think that by using ODBC you can connect to the MS Access server. Andrey Hristov IcyGEN Corporation http://www.icygen.com BALANCED SOLUTIONS - Original Message - From: user [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:33 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] PHP and ms

Re: [PHP-DB] Opt-In Request Re: Php-db@lists.php.net

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Hobbs
Boy, as a list, I _sure_ think it'd be fun to subscribe to this Abundant Living Online, don't you? I mean, I only thought you lived in the biological world, and had to log in to get online - if we can live online, that would really save a lot of time! And cut down on travel expenses. Sorry,

[PHP-DB] Re: store an array in a mysqldb

2001-08-31 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Yikes - not sure what everyone else is smoking. That's the hard way. I thought he was just asking if he could a variable that is an array inside a database and retrieve it later as an array. If this is the case, you can use the serialize() function to convert the array to data that can be stored

[PHP-DB] Re: resizing image in php

2001-08-31 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Any specific type of image? Look at the function and user comments on this PHP manual page. They have some good examples of resizing. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecopyresized.php - Jonathan Andrius Jakutis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and ms Access

2001-08-31 Thread François PERROT
Hi, You need to retreive data using a query script and just put them in a page :) It's as easy as that... Anyway if you precise your question we'll be able to give a more precise answer -Message d'origine- De : user [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date :

[PHP-DB] Php and ODBC

2001-08-31 Thread Sharif Islam
How easy is to connect MSSQL server from PHP , running in Linux? I already have Php installed but I dont think I complied it --with-odbc(?). Do i have to recompile? Is there any way to test it? Any help will be great. thanks -Sharif ) (( ||-. | :|/' -`--'- -- PHP Database

[PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Oien
I would like users to be able to request to have their password sent to their email address if they forget it. I would also like it encrypted in the database though. How is this best handled? The security isn't real important. But I let users choose their own password and if they use a password

Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread Russ Michell
Have a registration screen that inserts their names, email etc *and* their choice of username + password: $sql = INSERT INTO table (username,realname,password,email) VALUES ('$username',$realname',password('$password'),'$email'); $result = mysql_query($sql,$connect); //and do a check if the

Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread Russ Michell
Sorry it should have read: if ($check != 0) echo this username already exists, select another.; } else { echo continue!; } Cheers. Russ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:43:59 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Russ Michell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a registration screen

Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread John Pickett
Ugh, need to proof-read... Let me repost: Jeff, In order to maintain a strong encryption of passwords, you should probably use an MD5 hash. Unfortunately, this is a one-way street. What I would suggest doing however, is not actually attempt to give the user their password, but allow them to

RE: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Oien
I like the new password idea. How do I make sure it's them who's creating a new password so that someone else doesn't maliciously change their password? If someone knew someone's username and e-mail address I would think they could change it. Thanks. Jeff This doesn't seem to solve his problem

Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
Don't let them change it to whatever they want - have your program/system create a new, random password and e-mail it to the user's account. Unless the malicious person has a way to intercept the e-mail - which is possible - it's kind of useless. But how else are you going to get that information

Re: [PHP-DB] Password Question

2001-08-31 Thread John Pickett
I think you both (Jeff and Jon) misunderstood what I meant... Of course, I probably didn't explain very well either :-) I will describe the process again and then address each of your concerns... - Create a form named lostpass.php or something similar. This form should take the user's email

[PHP-DB] ODBC Drivers that doesn't support odbc_fetch_row

2001-08-31 Thread Erich Reimberg N.
Hello, I'm building an application that uses odbc_fetch_row with a row number (odbc_fetch_row($cx, 0)). This works fine in MS-SQL7.0, but the PHP manual explains that using odbc_fetch_row with a row number (second argument) might not work with some drivers. Does anyone of you have an

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: example of making Next 10 entries - previous ..

2001-08-31 Thread scag
hello phpNuke uses this process and i have used the code in my own applications and works fine - Original Message - From: Alexandre Santos To: Andrius Jakutis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:52 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: example of making Next 10

[PHP-DB] Who is the interbase maintainer?

2001-08-31 Thread Jeremy Bettis
I have pruned down my changes to the interbase module to just 2 bug fixes and then my blob insert patch. Where do I send these? Please give me the name of someone that will add these to CVS and not just blow me off. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[PHP-DB] Random

2001-08-31 Thread John Hurleston
I would like to get the first 5 random entries out of my mysql database, what would be the correct SELECT option? I adjusted this line $result = mysql_db_query ($DBName,select * from Contacts LIMIT 0,5 ); which works correctly. :) $result = mysql_db_query ($DBName,select * from Contacts order

RE: [PHP-DB] Previous | Next (Again)

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Oien
Sorry but I'm just not getting this. I'm not sure how to get the order of the pics in the first place or what do with the picnumber column. If someone deletes a pic wouldn't the picnumbers higher than it also need to be changed? I'm understanding everything else, even the password stuff but this

[PHP-DB] order by group by...

2001-08-31 Thread hassan el forkani
hi, i am trying to build a message board in php with mysql as back end; what i want to do is to query the database in a certain way that the result is returned in the correct order for php to display the discussion thread properly here is my table structure: mysql show fields from posts - ;

RE: [PHP-DB] Previous | Next (Again)

2001-08-31 Thread Brunner, Daniel
Hello!!! Now that I have found a better link to understand and use the code for next/previous...here it is... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2000/11/02/next_previous.html I use this idea with every database. This also teaches you...mysql_fetch_object PhPBuilder is OK but this one better

Re: [PHP-DB] Random

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Hobbs
I was sure there was a syntax error in that SELECT statement, but according tho the description at http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/a/Mathematical_functions.html, that looks right on to me. I know this doesn't help a lot, but at least you've had a second set of eyes confirm that your code looks

[PHP-DB] PHP / MySql / catalogs / carts

2001-08-31 Thread Larry \RedCobra\ Linthicum
I bet there are some shopping carts and or catalogs using PHP and MySql out there that I can use for my project rather than start from scratch links please thanks in advance -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: [PHP-DB] PHP / MySql / catalogs / carts

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Watkinson
php.net has loads of such links - don't be so lazy! ;-) -Original Message- From: Larry RedCobra Linthicum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 August 2001 20:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] PHP / MySql / catalogs / carts I bet there are some shopping carts and or catalogs

Re: [PHP-DB] Random

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Burney
according tho the description at http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/a/Mathematical_functions.html, that looks $result = mysql_db_query ($DBName,select * from Contacts order by rand() LIMIT 5 ); Doesn't work at all. :( What version of MySQL are you using? I remember something about ordering by

RE: [PHP-DB] Random

2001-08-31 Thread Seb Frost
I know it's documented as rand() but you might want to try random() just in case... I'm sure I read that somewhere - seb -Original Message- From: John Hurleston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 August 2001 19:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Random I would like to

[PHP-DB] Previous | Next (Again)

2001-08-31 Thread Sheridan Saint-Michel
I don't know of a way to do the insert in a single query (anyone?!?) with this... but assuming the fields in pic are id int PRI location varchar(30) picnumber int user varchar(20) $query = Select max(picnumber) from pics where user=\$user\; $dbq = mysql_query($query,$dblink) or

RE: [PHP-DB] Previous | Next (Again)

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Oien
OK, I see what you're saying and the O'Reilly link from someone else was very helpful, however I think there still must be a simpler way to do it. I don't need to have the reorder picture function. Each picture record has an id field which is linked to their username (in another table) and a

[PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Watkinson
Hey all I can connect with $conn = mysql_connect(IP_Address,username,password); but I can't connect with $host = IP_Address; $user = username; $pass = password; $conn = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass); Any ideas? All I get is Can't connect to MySQL Server on 'localhost',

RE: [PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Watkinson
yeah - everything's fine! All the variables are being stored, but they're not getting passed to mysql_connect() for some really strange reason! :-( I've done a temporary fix - moved the entire database connection function to a separate file, and required that from the first required file (!),

RE: [PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Brunner, Daniel
Yeah I just tried myself and it didn't work... localhost works as hostnameBut no IP number...hm.. Maybe it's the . in the variable...hm. Dan Anybody else have a idea?!!??! -- From: Dave Watkinson Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:25 PM To:

Re: [PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
You mean you had all this inside a function? Like: function dbConnect () { $link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass); } ? If so, did you pass $host, $user, and $pass to the function by global-ing them like: function dbConnect () { global $host; global $user; global $pass; $link =

Re: [PHP-DB] Last Modified question..

2001-08-31 Thread David Tod Sigafoos
Remember that the timestamp/default feature is only available to the 1st timestamp column in the table. This caught me a bit .. makes sense but if you don't know .. G DSig On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:20:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Emery) wrote: You can use a TIMESTAMP field in the the

RE: [PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Watkinson
err... neither! Originally I had function dbConnect (){ $link = mysql_connect(ipaddress,username,password); } And what I tried to do was require('somefile'); who's contents were: ? $host = ipaddress;

Re: [PHP-DB] Weird Problem In mysql_connect();

2001-08-31 Thread Chris Hobbs
JH has it right - your function has no idea what $host, $user, and $pass are, because they're out of scope. Add the global statements that Jonathan suggested inside your dbConnect function, and all will be well. Dave Watkinson wrote: function dbConnect (){ $link =

[PHP-DB] resizing image with php - what is the quality?

2001-08-31 Thread Andrius Jakutis
Hello, Again question about resizing image with PHP. What is the quality of the image after this process? I am about standart GIF or JPG image. Thanks -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DB] resizing image with php - what is the quality?

2001-08-31 Thread Seb Frost
imagecopyresized: crap imagecopyresampled: good but requires gd 2.0 - seb -Original Message- From: Andrius Jakutis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 09:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] resizing image with php - what is the quality? Hello, Again question

[PHP-DB] Email Processors Wanted!

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[PHP-DB] Dropping tables in MySQL

2001-08-31 Thread Ali Nayeri
Hi guys I had a question. How do you drop a table in a database in MySQL that has spaces in it's name. I created some tables in M$ Access and then exported them using MyODBC to MySQL. One of the tables had whitespaces in the name. Now MySQL is all screwed up. I want to drop the table but nothing