Re: [PHP-DB] SQL statement
PHPDiscuss - PHP Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote: Hello everybody, I'm building a small application and I have trouble passing a POST variable form one page to another inside the SQL statement. The query displayed below works great without the .$_POST['CompanyName']. $query_company_listing = SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName, CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName=.$_POST['CompanyName']. ORDER BY CompanyName ASC; you need to quote the string (company name) in the actual sql, compare the following 2 statements (lets assume companyname is 'IBM'): WRONG (this is what you are doing now): SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName,CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName=IBM ORDER BY CompanyName ASC RIGHT: SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName,CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName='IBM' ORDER BY CompanyName ASC there may be times when the companyname contains a single quote - that will break your query unless you escape the single quote in the name before placing the string into the query string... mysql.com can tell you more. But it messes up if I include it because the first is considered as the end of the previous one and so on, so the code gets messed up. I'll really appreciate any/all help! Have you all an excellent year! Jorge -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] how can PHP 4 extension for SQLite 3
hi,all I want to use sqlite 3 in php4,and I found this: PHP 4 extension for SQLite. (Official) http://pecl.php.net/package/SQLite but it only support sqlite 2,Have anyone hacked it to support sqlite 3? regards gary 2005-1-7
[PHP-DB] Re: SQL statement syntaxis
Hello everybody, I just want to thank you all for your help!! I got three emails helping me out. The problem was that I wasn't including the ' around the . When I typed '.$_POST['CompanyName'].' it worked great! Thank you!! Jorge PHPDiscuss - PHP Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote: Hello everybody, I'm building a small application and I have trouble passing a POST variable form one page to another inside the SQL statement. The query (displayed below) works great without the .$_POST['CompanyName']. $query_company_listing = SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName, CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName=.$_POST['CompanyName']. ORDER BY CompanyName ASC; But it messes up if I include it because the first is considered as the end of the previous one and so on. So the code gets messed up. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Have everybody a wonderful 2005! Jorge -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] SQL statement syntaxis
missing the singles quotes around the company name text element $query_company_listing = SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName, CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName='.$_POST['CompanyName'].' ORDER BY CompanyName ASC; bastien From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PHPDiscuss - PHP Newsgroups and mailing lists) To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] SQL statement syntaxis Date: 6 Jan 2005 19:12:16 - Hello everybody, I'm building a small application and I have trouble passing a POST variable form one page to another inside the SQL statement. The query (displayed below) works great without the .$_POST['CompanyName']. $query_company_listing = SELECT CompanyID, CompanyName, CompanyOrDepartment, BillingAddress, City, PostalCode, PhoneNumber FROM company WHERE company.CompanyName=.$_POST['CompanyName']. ORDER BY CompanyName ASC; But it messes up if I include it because the first is considered as the end of the previous one and so on. So the code gets messed up. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Have everybody a wonderful 2005! Jorge -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] setFetchMode problem with mssql/w2003/php503
ltlists wrote:
I'm getting this error when attempting to use setFetchMode()
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method DB_result::setFetchMode()
in new.php on line 27
which means that class DB_result does not have a setFetchMode()
method. did you read past the colon (:) in the error message?
did it cross your mind to search for the class that does contain that
method??
My code looks like this for now, almost the same as some of the
samples getting around:
$db = DB::connect(mssql://blah:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/blah);
if (DB::isError($db)) {
die ($db-getMessage());
}
$res=$db-query(select * from Contacts);
if (DB::isError($res)) {
print $res-getMessage() . \nDetails:
.$res-getUserInfo();
} else {
$res-setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
If looks as if you are trying to call the setFetchMode() method
on the 'resultset' object in your first example and in your second
example (the function) you are calling the same method on the 'db'
object. so this might work better:
$db-setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
I'm assuming $db is actually a a valid object of class DB
$row=$res-fetchRow();
$field0=$row['ID'];
$field1=$row['Name'];
$res-free();
$db-disconnect();
}
Just incase this could be an installation related problem I should
explain that I am using this in a virtual PC environment with IIS6,
PEAR was downloaded via a normal machine and then copied to the
virtual PC and go-pear was run (I think that's it).
A function based connection like this:
function execute_query($db,$sql) {
debug($sql);
$db-setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
return $db-getAll($sql);
}
seems to return data instead of erroring out.
I'm just a bit lost as to why the first lot of code has a problem
with DB_result.
If anyone can help that would be great.
Thanks for your time.
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Re: [PHP-DB] SQL statement
Jason, can you please turn off the return receipts on emails you send to the list. it's bloody annoying to have 'The Sender wishes to be notified' popup messages everytime I read one of your emails (and, alas, I don't have the skill to hack the return receipt crap right out of Tbird). BTW your not the only one that has it turned on - so this goes to the rest of you as well :-) cheers! Jason Walker wrote: First off - $_POST['CompanyName'] is valid, right? ... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] Fetch data from dbf file?
hi all, did anyone know how to fetch data from dbf file (Clipper) ? best regards, suprie -- Jangan tanyakan apa yang Indonesia telah berikan pada mu tapi bertanyalah apa yang telah engkau berikan kepada Indonesia -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GU/IT d- s: a-- C++ UL P L++ E W++ N* o-- K- w PS Y-- PGP- t++ 5 X R++ tv b+ DI D+ G e+ h* r- z? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] Trying to connext to MySQL with PEAR
To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm On 06 January 2005 21:10, Norland, Martin wrote: -Original Message- From: Ford, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:13 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Trying to connext to MySQL with PEAR [snip] Oh dear, as a fully-paid-up pedant, I'm afriad I can't resist this one: Doesn't affect the answer, but this occurrence of 'effect' should be 'affect'. ;) Cheers! Mike * Joining in on the fun * I'm afraid you spelled afraid incorrectly. I'll be sending you the bill for my services related to this matter. Please send it to Mr Murphy, who obviously insinuated one of his pet gremlins into my keyboard for those few moments...! ;) Cheers! Mike - Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] PHP query to mysql database returns emtpy data, but Query Browser shows records
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On 07 January 2005 03:25, Jason Walker wrote:
Graeme - you were moving in the right direction. Since the
data in the field
is varchar(250), the only thing that changes is the fact that the last
number is 3 digits. Other page queries were also affected
with 4 x 2 digit
numbers in the category field (eg. '37 48 49 52').
By adding '%' between each number and using 'LIKE' as opposed
to '=', the
queries through PHP return the correct value.
I think is very strange as 3x numbers work fine when using
spaces (' ')
between each criteria (as in '37 48 53').
The change would look something like:
SELECT description from cpProducts where category like '39%47%48%172'
That's not a good idea, as it would also match entries like:
391 247 48 172
39 147 148 172
395 347 1486 1172
etc.
I think you really need to find out exactly what's in those failing records,
and why it's not matching your query.
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Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
Ed wrote: Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. TIMESTAMP? you can save in the session when a use last grabbed messages (clicked update) and only return newer messages (i.e. message have a 'created' timestamp) then update the timestamp in the session. there is a window in which it is possible to have a request inserts a new message in between another request's selecting of all new messages and updating the session timestamp value (in such cases the person at the client end of the second request will never see the new message insert in the first request) - to handle that you have to implement some kind of locking mechanism. good luck is all can say. (PHP implements a 'share nothing' architecture - not, perse, the easiest or most efficient type of system to build realtime multi-user environments in - AFAICT) I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? your the best judge of that - heh if it works that's the main thing - making it work fast that's something to look at later... and then there is the issue of writing code that neat, tidy, well commented and readable 6 months down the line. Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
Hi, The timestamp idea is an intresting idea and i'll give that method some thought. I only want it to pull one private message at a time out of the private message field so it might start getting very messy doing that method - but it certainly does make it worth considering. Ed - Original Message - From: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file Ed wrote: Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. TIMESTAMP? you can save in the session when a use last grabbed messages (clicked update) and only return newer messages (i.e. message have a 'created' timestamp) then update the timestamp in the session. there is a window in which it is possible to have a request inserts a new message in between another request's selecting of all new messages and updating the session timestamp value (in such cases the person at the client end of the second request will never see the new message insert in the first request) - to handle that you have to implement some kind of locking mechanism. good luck is all can say. (PHP implements a 'share nothing' architecture - not, perse, the easiest or most efficient type of system to build realtime multi-user environments in - AFAICT) I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? your the best judge of that - heh if it works that's the main thing - making it work fast that's something to look at later... and then there is the issue of writing code that neat, tidy, well commented and readable 6 months down the line. Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
Ed wrote: Hi, The timestamp idea is an intresting idea and i'll give that method some thought. I only want it to pull one private message at a time out of the private message field so it might start getting very messy doing that method - but it certainly does make it worth considering. I see (I think) - the timestamp idea was aimed at a public general list of messages. in the case of private messages - they are always aimed at one particular user therefore in such a case a simple flag (true/false) to state whether its been viewed would probably work - or you could just delete the last grabbed message after you have selected it for output. have fun! Ed - Original Message - From: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file Ed wrote: Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. TIMESTAMP? you can save in the session when a use last grabbed messages (clicked update) and only return newer messages (i.e. message have a 'created' timestamp) then update the timestamp in the session. there is a window in which it is possible to have a request inserts a new message in between another request's selecting of all new messages and updating the session timestamp value (in such cases the person at the client end of the second request will never see the new message insert in the first request) - to handle that you have to implement some kind of locking mechanism. good luck is all can say. (PHP implements a 'share nothing' architecture - not, perse, the easiest or most efficient type of system to build realtime multi-user environments in - AFAICT) I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? your the best judge of that - heh if it works that's the main thing - making it work fast that's something to look at later... and then there is the issue of writing code that neat, tidy, well commented and readable 6 months down the line. Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Fetch data from dbf file?
Supri anto wrote: hi all, did anyone know how to fetch data from dbf file (Clipper) ? use some code. don't expect too much help if all you can be bothered to write are single line questions. I googled 'DBF + PHP' and came up with this: http://half2.mirrors.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1302.html now I'm pretty sure they have google in your country too, so why don't you use it before coming onto a mailing list and expecting other people to do your research for you? best regards, suprie -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
simple, add a 'read flag' column to the table, when the record is viewed, activate this flag (say 0 for unread and 1 for read) (Note: read is a mysql keyword don't use that for a column name) and then only show the ones unread bastien From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:58:18 - Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] I'm trying to out perform Martin Norland....
-Original Message- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] I'm trying to out perform Martin Norland in terms of helpfulness and volume of replies to Q's on this list ;-) but it doesn't help that my mails seem to take hours to reach the list (Martin's keep beating mine to show up). is the list-server against me? or do others also see loads of lag? Luck of the draw. I've sent mails that immediately posted to the list, and I've sent mails (like the recent MySQL PK) that took almost 4 hours. No idea where the bottleneck is - maybe just that php.nets mailserver is busy. Backoff algorithms make a larger and larger [but still random] window each failure - the idea being that if 4000 people sending mail simultaneously get failures from overloading the server - everyone calling back in exactly 10 minutes won't help anyone. If we get a collision when we call back, we figure we still have too many and we backoff again. So, if your mail has no problems the first time - it gets through fine. One failure, maybe a half hour. Two, and you're looking at the hours. Semi Ooh Tee, but I can't say that on this list or it doesn't get posted at all (which, as I've mentioned here before, is stupid). Cheers, - Martin Norland, Database / Web Developer, International Outreach x3257 The opinion(s) contained within this email do not necessarily represent those of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file
Hi, I've been looking at ways todo this, and as yet haven't figured out howto pull something from the database plus at the sametime update the record, can someone tell me how this is done or where i could learn? i've looked all over phpbuilder and a few other php forums but can't seem to find the answer. Ed - Original Message - From: Bastien Koert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file simple, add a 'read flag' column to the table, when the record is viewed, activate this flag (say 0 for unread and 1 for read) (Note: read is a mysql keyword don't use that for a column name) and then only show the ones unread bastien From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:58:18 - Hi, Thanks for answering the question. I'm going to make it write to a database rather than text file after searching google and coming accross common problems with text files. I've now just got to figure out how to mark the message as read in the database so it does not re-appear next time the user clicks update. I'm going to build a function that will put the message in the correct table using an if clause, is that the best method? Ed - Original Message - From: Andrew Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] select text from a text file On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:59 -, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year folks! The titlemight make this seem like an easy to answer question However here's the complicated bit (well for me anyway). In my text file that is written to by the users in a chatroom it looks like this: nickname||color||what the user is saying||user how can i make it so that if they have a private message when they press update it pulls the message from the text file and displays it in the frame but also deletes the text? You should be using a database for this, it makes things so much easier. That being said, here's one way to go about the text file version: Open the file, read through it line by line. As you read it, push the lines into an array. If you find a private message for the user, store that in a variable, and do not push it into the array. Finish reading the file. If there's a private message, you've got it in a variable, and you can overwrite the private message file with the array you've stored, which is all of the current private messages minus the one you're about to display. Please note, this does not scale at all, especially in the fast-paced world of chat rooms. You will likely end up with file locking problems if you proceed with the flat-file method. Also, how can i make it so that if in a drop down menu they select the word everybody it goes to a file called messages.txt and if they select user or user2 or user3 from the list it writes to private.txt is this at all possible? user and user2 etc arent hardcoded it's pulling the names from a list of online users. Are you talking about appending messages to a text file? In that case, you can have the dropdown submit with the message, and in the PHP code have a case for 'everybody' where it writes to messages.txt, and if it's not 'everybody', write it to private.txt with the username that was selected from the dropdown as part of the row. Does that answer your question? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] SQL statement
Hi, To stop the return receipt dialog appearing in Tbird... Tools... Options... Advanced... Return Receipt and select Never send a return receipt. Or you can choose some of the other selections. graeme Jochem Maas wrote: Jason, can you please turn off the return receipts on emails you send to the list. it's bloody annoying to have 'The Sender wishes to be notified' popup messages everytime I read one of your emails (and, alas, I don't have the skill to hack the return receipt crap right out of Tbird). BTW your not the only one that has it turned on - so this goes to the rest of you as well :-) cheers! Jason Walker wrote: First off - $_POST['CompanyName'] is valid, right? ... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
