Re: [PHP-DB] OR on multiple columns

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 10 January 2003 06:41, David Chamberlin wrote: > > That may depend upon your particular circumstances, and hence running > > your own tests on both methods would give you the best answer. > > OK, so what's the best way to go about profiling this? Short answer: microtime() Long answer: c

RE: [PHP-DB] Relationship or not.

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Levick
I forgot to mention there will likely be more than the one "file" that relates to a task. -Original Message- From: Bruce Levick Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Relationship or not. I have a bit of a challenge on and only being a newbie I wi

[PHP-DB] Relationship or not.

2003-01-09 Thread Bruce Levick
I have a bit of a challenge on and only being a newbie I will need to call on some experienced PHP'ers. I have two tables in a databse. "Tasks" and "Files". They relate to each other via Tasks.ID and Files.FID. I have successfully created an uploading form which adds images to a directory and re

Re: [PHP-DB] resetting $res from mysql_fetch_row()?

2003-01-09 Thread Donny Lee
John W. Holmes wrote: >>any hint on resetting a $res from mysql_fetch_row()? > www.php.net/mysql_data_seek Thanks, does help. -- // Donny -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP-DB] Examine button

2003-01-09 Thread John W. Holmes
> Hello everybody!!! I'm writing to you to ask if somebody knows how can > I do to emulate the examine button to retrive a file's path to save that > string in the database. Specifically, it's a photo, that've got to search > in the directory's window. Thanks in advance! Yeah, you probably

[PHP-DB] Examine button

2003-01-09 Thread Sabina A. Schneider
Hello everybody!!! I'm writing to you to ask if somebody knows how can I do to emulate the examine button to retrive a file's path to save that string in the database. Specifically, it's a photo, that've got to search in the directory's window. Thanks in advance! Sabina Alejandra Schn

RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Doug Thompson
You're absolutely right. It must be the 1.5 hours of sleep last night that made my brain shrivel up like that. 8( Doug On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:45:00 -0500, John W. Holmes wrote: >> ... >> if ($result) { >> while ($row... >> ... >> } >> >> $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies t

Re: [PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script

2003-01-09 Thread Jeremy Peterson
Dave, I am afraid I am not communicating what I am trying to do. I have multiple databases that my library purchases. FirstSearch, Ebscohost, etc. These company's have there own authentication systems that I have no control over. A lot of them give user names and passwords that can access t

[PHP-DB] Design suggestions - performance improvement

2003-01-09 Thread Matthew Nock
Hi all, I am currently building a site for a cinema to display session times, film synopsis' etc... I have built the database as follows: TABLE: film_detail FilmID FilmName FilmRunTime FilmRating FilmSynopsis etc... TABLE session_data session_ID session_filmID session_StartTime session_Date

RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread John W. Holmes
> ... > if ($result) { > while ($row... > ... > } > > $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies the query. Any other > comparison is just extra typing with no improvement in logic. No, it only returns false/0 if the query fails, meaning there was an error and the query couldn't

Re: [PHP-DB] OR on multiple columns

2003-01-09 Thread David Chamberlin
Jason Wong wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:36, David Chamberlin wrote: I was reading the mysql docs and noticed a section on searching on multiple keys (stupid question - keys=columns?). It says doing an OR on multiple keys is inefficient, and you should use a temp table. Here's their

Re: [PHP-DB] which DBMS... MySQL or PostgreSQL

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Boget
> Hmm.. so it means that I should choose PG ??? That's not something we can answer as it very much depends on your needs. Look at the features that PG has v. the features that MySQL has and decide based on that. If you don't need the functionality PG offers that MySQL doesn't, go with MySQL as

RE: [PHP-DB] which DBMS... MySQL or PostgreSQL

2003-01-09 Thread dufronte
Hmm.. so it means that I should choose PG ??? #Please join Open Community Forum... http://openity.tk #We're free to discuss anything ---DuFronte--- http://kapsul.org No Fuckin' Shits !! > -Original Message- > From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, Janua

RE: [PHP-DB] which DBMS... MySQL or PostgreSQL

2003-01-09 Thread dufronte
Oh yeah.. I see... thx for the info... #Please join Open Community Forum... http://openity.tk #We're free to discuss anything ---DuFronte--- http://kapsul.org No Fuckin' Shits !! > -Original Message- > From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 10,

Re: [PHP-DB] which DBMS... MySQL or PostgreSQL

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 10 January 2003 03:48, dufronte wrote: > I want to start my Open-Source Project.. PHP-Based RPG Webgame in the > next 2 months.. Till now, I still confuse in choosing 2 DBMS. > MySQL and PostgreSQL. In your opinions, which DB should I use in > consider that my Game will content a very bi

[PHP-DB] which DBMS... MySQL or PostgreSQL

2003-01-09 Thread dufronte
I want to start my Open-Source Project.. PHP-Based RPG Webgame in the next 2 months.. Till now, I still confuse in choosing 2 DBMS. MySQL and PostgreSQL. In your opinions, which DB should I use in consider that my Game will content a very big database including Player data, player Stats, Story and

Re: [PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script

2003-01-09 Thread David Smith
I haven't looked over all your code in detail, but the problem you describe seems to be best solved using PHP Sessions. Sessions store data between browser refreshes. You could store whether a user has been authenticated via LDAP, and then on a subsequent page, you can reference that information to

Re: [PHP-DB] two inserts at once?

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Knauf/Niles
Well what do ya know, this works! Thanks for the pointer. if ($tableid=="newfaq") { echo "adding FAQ"; $newfaq_query = "INSERT INTO `faq` (`faqid`, `question`, `answer`) VALUES ('', '$question', '$answer')"; $newfaqResult = mysql_query($newfaq_query); $newfaq_query2 = "IN

Re: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Doug Thompson
... if ($result) { while ($row... ... } $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies the query. Any other comparison is just extra typing with no improvement in logic. Regards, Doug On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:06:51 -0500, Michael Cortes wrote: >I am a programming novice

RE: [PHP-DB] Stumped...

2003-01-09 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
Nevermind. I just stumbled across the nature of my problem on Deja.com. Thanks anyway and sorry for bugging you guys about what really was a simple problem. -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:36 PM To: NIPP, S

Re: [PHP-DB] Stumped...

2003-01-09 Thread Jim
it sounds like you are doing an INSERT and the table has fewer columns then the VALUES clause has. Check your code for an INSERT statement then match your values up with the table structure, check for hidden commas in your value information. Jim ---Original Message--- From: NIPP,

RE: [PHP-DB] Stumped...

2003-01-09 Thread Hutchins, Richard
Post your SQL statement. > -Original Message- > From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:37 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [PHP-DB] Stumped... > > > I am getting an error that is proving very difficult to > isolate and >

[PHP-DB] Stumped...

2003-01-09 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
I am getting an error that is proving very difficult to isolate and was hoping for help. The error is: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1. I would include the code, but it is about 350 lines, and I am not sure where to narrow it down at. Any ideas? Thanks. Scott Nipp Phone

Re: [PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script

2003-01-09 Thread Jeremy Peterson
David, I have ldap working, my problem is the second half of my question. The problem script workflow: 1. Authenticate on LDAP (Resolved) 2. Connect to different authenticated site for the user (Not sure where to go now.) My guess was to send the post information to where the form action point

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Oops! I missed again. If you specify conditions pertaining to the right-hand table, such as: ads_clickrate.date = '2001', Then you will lose all result rows for which the right-hand data is NULL. Not the expected result. So your restricting WHERE clauses must apply to the left-hand table only.

Re: [PHP-DB] two inserts at once?

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 10 January 2003 01:04, Michael Knauf/Niles wrote: > This Code Snippet works: > > $newfaq_query = "INSERT INTO `faq` (`faqid`, `question`, `answer`) VALUES > ('', '$question', '$answer')"; > $newfeaturesResult = mysql_query($newfeatures_query); > > But I'd like to combine that query with

Re: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Boget
> I would like to created an if statement that only occurs if the query gets a result. > If there are > no records that meet the query conditionals and my array ends up with null, I do not >want my if > statement to take place. > Is this easy enough to do? Any help would be great. if( mysql_n

RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
if (mysql_num_rows($result) < 1) { //do stuff } This is only this easy with mySQL... :-) <>< Ryan -Original Message- From: Michael Cortes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

[PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cortes
I am a programming novice and just created my first php application. However I have a situation I don't know the answer to. My db queries (mysql) are written like this: $qtrans= "select * from $table where (conditionals) order by some field"; $link=mysql_connect ($host, $user

Re: [PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script

2003-01-09 Thread David Smith
Jeremy, LDAP authentication happens in two stages: connect and bind. The connect stage is just establishing a connection with the LDAP server (ldap_connect()). No username or password is necesary in this stage. Once your connection is established, you attempt a bind (ldap_bind())to verify a userna

Re: [PHP-DB] preventing page from resubmitting when refreshing page

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Boget
> Is there something i can do on browser refresh to prevent this or prevent my > mysql database from duplicating the records? Instead of using INSERT in your query use REPLACE INTO. Alternately, after you are done processing the form, do this: header( "location: $PHP_SELF?$QUERY_STRING" ); exit()

RE: [PHP-DB] preventing page from resubmitting when refreshing page

2003-01-09 Thread Hutchins, Richard
I use logic like this to avoid this problem: Submit data from form to a separate PHP script that handles the database submission then forwards to a results page which queries the database for the information from an ID passed along with the page forward. If you do this, when you refresh the resul

RE: [PHP-DB] [mysql - php] Newline to BR problem

2003-01-09 Thread Aaron Wolski
You want to look at nl2br() function. It takes newlines from a text like: Hello My name is Aaron Which when outputted normally would look like: Hello my name is aaron Using echo nl2br($dbquery); would produce: Hello My name is Aaron In your HTML code which then would output in a browse lik

[PHP-DB] preventing page from resubmitting when refreshing page

2003-01-09 Thread mike karthauser
I have a page that has a form on the first part that posts to itself and dumps the contents of the form into a database. All this is well and good - I'm using if ($_POST['submit']) { } to detect the submission and everything is doing as it should. Thing is if you refresh the page that display

Re: [PHP-DB] two inserts at once?

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If you are using MySQL, you can't. (none of my business, but why not simplifying your table names: "faqProduct" instead of "faqRelatedToProduct" ?) Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Michael Knauf/Niles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

[PHP-DB] [mysql - php] Newline to BR problem

2003-01-09 Thread Ro Stonemountain
I'm trying to place a text from a textfield into a database and displaying it on another page. All works fine and well but my problem is: If i place newline characters (press enter) in the forms textfield they don't show up on my display page. This is logical because newlines are not codes. So i

[PHP-DB] two inserts at once?

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Knauf/Niles
This Code Snippet works: $newfaq_query = "INSERT INTO `faq` (`faqid`, `question`, `answer`) VALUES ('', '$question', '$answer')"; $newfeaturesResult = mysql_query($newfeatures_query); But I'd like to combine that query with this one: INSERT INTO `faqRelatedToProduct` (`id`, `fgNumber`, `faqId`)

[PHP-DB] Authenticating through a php script

2003-01-09 Thread Jeremy Peterson
I am working on a script that will authenticate on a central system my company has devised for us to use (LDAP) and then authenticate them to other sites that I want them to access (Online Databases and other electronic resources I do not control but pay lots of money for all students to access).

[PHP-DB] Database Limitations

2003-01-09 Thread Brian Taylor
When I used to use perl to code, I ran into an issue where I would get an error from the DBI module when i tried to insert more than 8000 characters at one time. I know php has it's own postgres functions, we use postgres, and I was wondering if there where any limitations like that in php? I kno

RE: [PHP-DB] denying access to folders/files

2003-01-09 Thread John W. Holmes
Not sure what's the question or the answer below... but anyway. To protect your files, store them outside of the webroot or in the database and use a PHP file to serve them up. The PHP file will check the authentication or whatever of the user and if it's valid, serve up the file to them with a pro

RE: [PHP-DB] denying access to folders/files

2003-01-09 Thread Gary . Every
Gary Every Sr. UNIX Administrator Ingram Entertainment (615) 287-4876 "Pay It Forward" mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://accessingram.com This is fine and dandy, but how do I prevent that person from taking the direct link to the file and giving it to someone else? I'm sure there is a much bette

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql wildcard

2003-01-09 Thread Edward Peloke
Thanks! select * from offtime where type='%' didn't work but when I change = to 'like' it works great! Thanks, Eddie -Original Message- From: Marco Tabini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:57 PM To: Edward Peloke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] my

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Oops! Sorry, I missed it the first time. Your query should start as: SELECT ads_displayrate.name instead of SELECT ads_clickrate.name then you will always have a non-NULL name (coming from the table on the left of the LEFT JOIN). HTH Ignatius, from Brussels "Where the fuck is Belgium?" D. Ivest

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Lisi
Exactly my question - why does it not have a name? How would I modify my query to get a row with a name but null value for date? I thought the join would take care of this, but I'm obviously not doing it right. You mention a unique identifier, there is a separate table with a row for each ad, c

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Your 4th row ought to have an identifier of some sort. From your SELECT statement, this seems to be the name. Why does it not have a name? Probably what you want is a row with a name but a NULL value for ads_clickrate.date. (by the way it is EXTREMELY advisable to use an abstract identifier, such

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Lisi
OK, this helped a bit. Now I have, in addition to the three rows of ads that have ben clicked on, a fourth row with no ad name, 0 clickthroughs, and 24 displays. That plus the other three account for all the displayed ads. However, since it is returning a null value for any ad name that has not

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
problem 1: move the WHERE clauses to the ON clauses problem 2: Obviously your intent with " COUNT(ads_clickrate.date) " is to count the number of non-null occurences of click. But COUNT() is not the appropriate function to do this (it will simply give you the number of rows inside a group). Try r

[PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Lisi
I have a page with many ads that stores both the number of times an ad is displayed and how many times it gets clicked. These are stored in two different tables (since different information is stored for each) but both have identical name columns. I am trying to display both # times displayed

RE: [PHP-DB] how use random in php

2003-01-09 Thread Snijders, Mark
check www.php.net and search for array... then you will get a list of all the array functions try to find it out yourself first please -mark- -Original Message- From: khac duy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 10 januari 2003 1:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] how use r

[PHP-DB] how use random in php

2003-01-09 Thread khac duy
in php only support shuffe(); function,i want random a array,how

RE: [PHP-DB] help me

2003-01-09 Thread Snijders, Mark
when using start_session the code tries to write a file to the tmp dir... think you are working under windows so make in c: a \tmp dir !!! then it should work -Original Message- From: khac duy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 10 januari 2003 1:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: [PHP-DB] help me

2003-01-09 Thread rblack
Are you running on windows or Linux??? This looks like a Windows problem - you have to set your "SESSION_SAVE_PATH" in php.ini AND make sure the folder you specify exists and is accessible to PHP. HTH, Richy == Richard Black Senior Developer, DataVisibil

Re: [PHP-DB] help me

2003-01-09 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello khac, hmm what platform are you running on? what are PHP settings for writing sessions? Check out permissions for /tmp directory, check out free space on disk. -- Best regards, Martin mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile +421.907.30

[PHP-DB] help me

2003-01-09 Thread khac duy
i can't use start_secsion(); in php4, it say: error : can't ofen(\tmp/4363jghsfjkhshga.. like this...