Re: [PHP-DB] Contact Database php_mysql

2002-03-27 Thread DL Neil
Russell, I am contemplating a Historical Database I barely can spel redundant let alone normalize so I am handicapped. The aim is to enter a name only once. I am studying linking tables. In the [Contact] idContact First_Name,Last_Name,Middle,Suffix,Full_Name,idCity,idState,City_State,i

Re: [PHP-DB] If else Question

2002-03-27 Thread ted
Jennifer: Did you ever get your If else Question answered? On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jennifer Downey wrote: Hi all, I have a table called pets, here is a partial dump: At this time this is all I am working with. uid int(10) NOT NULL default '0', num_pet tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '1',

[PHP-DB] Re: procedures?

2002-03-27 Thread Ron
Have you looked at or download the mysql.pdf.which is pretty clear and consise. If you would like to look at other sites go to www.php.net and on the top part click on links. There around the middle of the page you will find PHP tutorials. Any place that has PHP tutorials will probably have

[PHP-DB] Re: Checking for 2 unique row contents

2002-03-27 Thread Adam Royle
Simple do these checks and you'll be sweet as a nut Adam ?php $sql = SELECT nickname FROM tblUsers WHERE nickname = '$nickname''; $result = mysql_query($sql); $sql = SELECT email FROM tblUsers WHERE email = '$email'; $result2 = mysql_query($sql); if (mysql_num_rows($result)){

Re: [PHP-DB] Checking for 2 unique row contents

2002-03-27 Thread DL Neil
Hi Dave, I am trying to create a registration area that uses a nickname and email pair. I need both to be unique. So how do I that either do not already exist then if unique insert into db. if nickname exist then error = sorry... if email exist then error = sorry... else must be unique

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: PHP/Access problem

2002-03-27 Thread George Pitcher
Adam, Thanks for the assist. The query works fine without the ( ) arount the conditions. Now on to the next part. George - Original Message - From: Adam Royle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:03 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Re:

[PHP-DB] Selecting Drop Down Value From DB to Edit

2002-03-27 Thread Steve Fitzgerald
I have the below code that populates a drop down list. The code will correctly insert the value $StateID into another a table. The problem I am running into is that when I select the record to edit the drop-downlist has the first option as the value instead of what the corresponding StateID in

RE: [PHP-DB] Selecting Drop Down Value From DB to Edit

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Emery
I'm trying to decipher: when I select the record to edit the drop-downlist has the first option as the value instead of what the corresponding StateID in the column reads. How can I correct this? The form to insert and edit have the below code and correctly

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting Drop Down Value From DB to Edit

2002-03-27 Thread Dan Harrelson
If I understand your question, when editing an existing record where StateID = CA, you want the drop-down to show California as selected. You need to add a little code into your while loop to echo SELECTED into the appropriate option tag. -Dan --- Steve Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[PHP-DB] formatting table column to display as a hyperlink using Oracle

2002-03-27 Thread Franden, Craig
Hi, I am using a small php script to return records from an oracle8.1.6 database. I would like to have one of the columns contents display the data as a hyperlink and I am not quite sure how to do it. Here is the code that returns the data (which is correct). The table formatting is the issue.

[PHP-DB] Big Problems Connecting to MySQL

2002-03-27 Thread Liam Gibbs
Hi, I'm having some big problems even running any mysql_connect commands. I get the results at the bottom of this e-mail from running a simple mysql_connect command. Some things to consider are that I'm accessing my web site through port 8080, and I'm not sure what username, password, or

Re: [PHP-DB] Contact Database php_mysql

2002-03-27 Thread Russell Griechen
Wow I'm amazed and thankful for such help and advice I thought I would attack this project piecemeal but that will not give a clear view that will allow helpful comment without the full view. I have a website at http://geocities.com/efoxfiles a labor of love So now it has become so detail

RE: [PHP-DB] Big Problems Connecting to MySQL

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Emery
You need to ensure that mysql.sock has the correct read-write-execute permissions Check the mail list archives; this question is asked and answered EVERY week -Original Message- From: Liam Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] formatting table column to display as a hyperlink using Oracle

2002-03-27 Thread olinux
What are you trying to link to? Most likely you need to pass a few variables in the URL This should give you an idea: echo TDA HREF=whateverpage.php?var1=$var1record=$column_value$column_value/ATD; olinux --- Franden, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a small php script to

[PHP-DB] Very wierd problem ;-(

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Carrera
Hi All I will try and explain as clearly as I can I have a message board type of script. User logs in = no prob User posts message = No prob can see message on db and retrieve a list of new posts. Now the prob. I am to reply to the message via an admin area by selecting the

RE: [PHP-DB] Very wierd problem ;-(

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Emery
show you code and db table struct -Original Message- From: Dave Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Very wierd problem ;-( Hi All I will try and explain as clearly as I can I have a message board

[PHP-DB] Advice to PHP beginners

2002-03-27 Thread Adam Royle
Just some advice... You should use a consistent programming style, especially with PHP. You can read some guys advice here. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20010101.php3?page=1 Some of the advantages of having a consistent style, is when you are looking for bugs. If you look over your

[PHP-DB] retrieving one record at a time

2002-03-27 Thread Natividad Castro
Hi to all, I'm new to PHP. I'm trying to retrieve data from a database, but I just want to retrieve one record at a time and go through to the next records by click next record. I know how to retrieve all record by using the mysql_fetch_array, but I'm having problems to select one record at time.

[PHP-DB] Looking for a recent inserted record

2002-03-27 Thread Jairo Tcatchenco
Hi all! I have two tables. One have the primary key, that is referenced in the second. When I have to insert a record in both tables, I do this in the first, following a select to catch the primary key generated. So then I insert the rest of data in the second table, with the value

Re: [PHP-DB] retrieving one record at a time

2002-03-27 Thread Josh Trutwin
Hi to all, I'm new to PHP. I'm trying to retrieve data from a database, but I just want to retrieve one record at a time and go through to the next records by click next record. I know how to retrieve all record by using the mysql_fetch_array, but I'm having problems to select one record at

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting Drop Down Value From DB to Edit

2002-03-27 Thread Steve Fitzgerald
This is the entire code for the page edit_race.php ?php // editrace.php - edit race results ? ?php // includes include(../includes/config.php); include(../includes/functions.php); // open database connection $connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die (Unable to connect!);

[PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Brad Melendy
Ok, I've spent some time reading the docs at php.net and I'm still confused. After a couple hours, I have an include file working with a statement like: include (dblib.inc); However, to add to my confusion, I've got a second include file statement on the next line: include (userlib.inc); And

[PHP-DB] include files don't work???

2002-03-27 Thread Brad Melendy
Hi All, This is strange. I've got some functions I want to include in my PHP documents. Well, I can never get anything to work if I include the file that holds the functions, but, if I insert the functions into the PHP document in question, everything works?? Now, I've checked to ensure that

[PHP-DB] parsing 2 results per row in different td's

2002-03-27 Thread valentino
i'm having trouble telling php to format the output of a mysql query correctly. i not only want to loop the output in simple table rows (meaning that php parses one result per row), instead i want php to parse two results per row in different td's. no clue what i'm talking about? take my

[PHP-DB] Re: OT - [PHP-DB] Advice to PHP beginners

2002-03-27 Thread -BD-
did the tabs get stripped in your mail, or is there a reason the code couldn't be written like the following? i'm curious, since this is the way i do 90% of my code - makes it easy to see what's going on... but i dunno about performance or parsing impact (never gave it much thought until

RE: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Emery
did you start each include file with: ?php ? If not, PHP treats the code within as straight text -Original Message- From: Brad Melendy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell! Ok, I've spent

Re: [PHP-DB] retrieving one record at a time

2002-03-27 Thread mike
try using your id column of the table Select * from table where table_id=1 using mysql_fetch_array with the above query will work. Mike - Original Message - From: Natividad Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:04 PM Subject: [PHP-DB]

RE: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
#1. You may want to double-check the path where you're calling it from in case you're working with subdirectories. Let's saying you access a page at www.domain.com/page.php which calls www.domain.com/includes/header.inc. Then, header.inc includes the dblib.inc file at

[PHP-DB] Another Drop down question

2002-03-27 Thread Kim Kohen
Hello all, I'm trying for the first time to use a dynamically created popup menu from a mysql database. The menu is of (article) writers' names and will be used in a select query. Using snippets of code I've gleaned from here and the mysql list, I've the popup working fine but I'd like to

Re: [PHP-DB] Another Drop down question

2002-03-27 Thread szii
The easiest way... $getlist = mysql_query(SELECT distinct Writer FROM stories); echo select name=\WriterName\\n; echo option value='All'Search All/option; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($getlist)) { echo ' option value='.$row[Writer].''.$row[Writer]./option\n; } echo /select\n;

Re: [PHP-DB] Another Drop down question

2002-03-27 Thread Kim Kohen
G'day szii, The easiest way... $getlist = mysql_query(SELECT distinct Writer FROM stories); echo select name=\WriterName\\n; echo option value='All'Search All/option; I love simple solutions:) Cheers and many thanks kim -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Brad Melendy
Hi Rick, Yes, this is the first thing I checked. Thanks for your suggestion. ...Brad Rick Emery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... did you start each include file with: ?php ? If not, PHP treats the code within as straight text -Original

Re: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Brad Melendy
Thanks Jonathan, I'm trying to include a file /includes/dblib.inc from /main/page.php. In /main/page.php I use include(includes/dblib.inc);. When that didn't work, I tried copying the file to /main/ and including it there and that didn't work either. Finally, I tried adding a specific path to

Re: [PHP-DB] Contact Database php_mysql

2002-03-27 Thread Russell Griechen
Thanks for the advice So reflecting what advice I have received to date: Assuming that the Contact table would be used for: Owners, Breeders, Sportsmen, Ancestors, Associations, and a myriad of other categories of mankind, would the following normalization be prudent? ContactID

RE: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Dan Brunner
Has anybody told him to check his PHP.INI??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell! #1. You may want to double-check the path

RE: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Photocon
At 22:41 3/27/2002 -0600, Dan Brunner wrote: Has anybody told him to check his PHP.INI??? How about adding the following to httpd.conf: php_value include_path .:/usr/share/php:/path/to/webpages --Photocon Conrad Hunziker III www.nightskyent.com -- PHP Database Mailing List

[PHP-DB] https post using php

2002-03-27 Thread mailing list
Hello, I am attempting to POST to a https://whatever.url.com server and return the result from the server into the script without the user knowing using a php script. I can not use CURL becuase the shared server I have hosting this site was not compiled -with-curl. I downloaded HTTP_POST PHP

[PHP-DB] PHP and Foxpro Databases

2002-03-27 Thread John Clarke
I am thinking about providing real time web access to our coach reservations system. The reservations system is on Foxpro2.6 on a SCO Unix 5.0.2 server. I am considering setting up the web server with FreeBSD, Apache and PHP. Our reservations system is used by up to 60 operators almost 24

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and Foxpro Databases

2002-03-27 Thread ted
Does FoxPro have an ODBC module? I'm in the midst of putting a web front-end on an Access database; we've put MySQL as the back end to Access using the ODBC connection. Then PHP can process queries on the MySQL db and the local operators see it as an Access db. We first tried PostgreSQL

Re: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Brad Melendy
The thing that sucks about having to rely upon the php.ini file is that the you must use a particular folder for all your include files, even if you are using files for several different sites. It makes much more sense to be able to put your include files for a particular site in that site.

[PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP Update

2002-03-27 Thread Jason
I'm trying to update my MySQL database, but it doesn't seem to be taking. my code is: mysql_query(update prod_list set prod_manu=$prod_man where sku='$prod'); where prod_manu is an int $prod_man is an int sku is a varchar $prod is text mysql_query() comes back successful, and

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP Update

2002-03-27 Thread Maxwell
I'm trying to update my MySQL database, but it doesn't seem to be taking. my code is: mysql_query(update prod_list set prod_manu=$prod_man where sku='$prod'); Try: mysql_query(update prod_list set prod_manu='$prod_man' where sku='$prod'); Maxwell -- PHP Database Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DB] include() statement hell!

2002-03-27 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 28 March 2002 14:58, Brad Melendy wrote: How is this different than using the php.ini file? Photocon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... At 22:41 3/27/2002 -0600, Dan Brunner wrote: Has anybody told him to check his PHP.INI???

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP Update

2002-03-27 Thread Marius Ursache
Jason a écrit : I'm trying to update my MySQL database, but it doesn't seem to be taking. my code is: mysql_query(update prod_list set prod_manu=$prod_man where sku='$prod'); where prod_manu is an int $prod_man is an int sku is a varchar $prod is text mysql_query()