Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_fetch_array() question

2002-11-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
John is right. In fact one routinely calls two different $result(s) when coding nested loops: while( $details = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) { while ( $Email = mysql_fetch_array( $result2 ) ) .. } } when executing the next instance of your loop: while( $details = mysql_fetch_array( $

Re: [PHP-DB] Structure Question...

2002-11-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You have to create a table: CREATE TABLE product_categ ( FK_productID , FK_categID ) and list all relationships "productID belongs to categID" Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Doug Coning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

Re: [PHP-DB] Polls?

2002-11-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
One possibility: table questions( questionID, question_text, ...) PRIMARY KEY( questionID) table answers( FK_questionID, individualID, answer_code, ...) PRIMARY KEY( FK_questionID, individualID) For very simple online polls, there is a nice tutorial in Devshed: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side

Re: [PHP-DB] Extracting column names from a db

2002-11-10 Thread Ignatius Reilly
A mix-up in your loop. Try: while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) { echo $row['Field'] ; } (you may just as well use the field names provided by SHOW COLUMNS - more readable than numerical indexes) HTH Ignatius - Original Message -

Re: [PHP-DB] php array max value pr. year

2002-11-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Hi Martin, I am sure that many would love to help you, but really you must explain your problem more clearly! Can you give more details? Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Martin Allan Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [PHP-DB] arrays & db

2002-11-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Why don't you want to do this with SQL? Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Martin Allan Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] arrays & db Okey people, i try again!!

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP-WIN] update tablename

2002-11-12 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You can not do it directly. You have to create a new table as a copy of the old one: CREATE TABLE new_table SELECT * FROM old_table Your problem will be that the MySQL "PHP" user will probably not have the CREATE rights. Ignatius "Rodrigo San Martin"

Re: [PHP-DB] array sorting

2002-11-12 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Just loop through the first index, then search on the second index: while ( list( $key, $value ) = each( $my_arr ) ) { // now $value is your ( [0] => 10 [1] => 40 [2] => 50 [3] => 80 [4] => 130 [5] => 220 [6] => 320 ) array // sort your array by values sort( $value ) ; // get the

Re: [PHP-DB] HTML Forms question...

2002-11-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Great piece of advice Mike. Thanks. Far from obvious. I was stuck with this problem since a few days. Will that also apply to n-dimensional array, like: document.form["system[]"][0][1] ? Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <[

Re: [PHP-DB] $_get 2 variables

2002-11-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
http://localhost/myscript.php?var1=blah&var2=blah2 Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Gavin Amm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Php-Db (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:30 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] $_get 2 variables > H

Re: [PHP-DB] standart variabels melfunction

2002-11-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Martin, what you are experiencing is the normal way to call form variables. There is no problem. You should use register_globals=Off whenever possible. better security. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Beau Lebens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: [PHP-DB] FW: Selecting not on DB

2002-11-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You could create an auxiliary table nb_1_10 containing a field nb with all integers from 1 to 10 Then perform a SELECT join: SELECT nb_1_10.* FROM ABC, nb_1_10 WHERE nb_1_10.nb NOT IN ABC.number AND < some condition that returns only one row from ABC - like here (1,4,6,10) > Ignatius ___

Re: [PHP-DB] Undefined Constant

2002-11-26 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Well, is there an input field in your form whose name corresponds to . ? It is more likely that if you have a dynamic form your fields will be called by a ID identifier, like price is 12 EUR Where 12 is the price of grommet with ID 1012 in your DB So perhaps your javascript generator echoes the w

Re: [PHP-DB] Help with date

2002-11-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If you use MySQL: SELECT DATE_ADD( $my_date, INTERVAL n DAY ) AS new_date ; Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Dankshit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 6:06 PM S

Re: [PHP-DB] some data output formatting and grouping question...

2002-12-02 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Very simple procedurally (though not in SQL). Here's the pseudo-code: Execute: SELECT * FROM Y WHERE U = 'me' ORDER BY Y, X $flag = "last_y" ; // flag indicating whether or not your mysql_fetch_array() brings a new value of Y Loop your query result { if Y <> $flag['last_y'] { // thi

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql - enum

2002-12-02 Thread Ignatius Reilly
DESCRIBE tbl_name col_name Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Bastian Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] mysql - enum > Hi, > > is it possible to get all possible va

Re: [PHP-DB] displaying duplicate records...

2002-12-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
I do not understand your first question. Your query in effect shows duplicates. To prevent future duplicates, you can do it in two ways: 1. with MySQL: create a unique index on what should be unique, most likely the email (it looks like your business logic implies one entry per email) in fact you

Re: [PHP-DB] displaying duplicate records...

2002-12-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
n submission. How do I go about letting > the user know they have entered an already existing address? > > > "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 030801c29b8b$8bd88ee0$015a@server">news:030801c29b8b$8bd88ee0$015a@server... > > I do

Re: [PHP-DB] I got this idea...

2002-12-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Well, we can only offer very general guidelines at this stage. What you can do is write a script that: - call all the URLs showing paintball prices (btw what is a paintball?) - extract the product name and price. this will require a specific REGEX for each URL called, and regular testing vs change

Re: [PHP-DB] calling function on submit instead of going to a new script

2002-12-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Simply append a parameter to the URL: action="same_page.php?selector=1" your script will take various actions based on a switch: switch $_POST['selector'] { case 1 : etc. Ignatius ___ - Original Message - From: "Gavin Amm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: [PHP-DB] Newline help...

2002-12-05 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If you're on a Window$ system, try \r\n instead of \n Ignatius - Original Message - From: "NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Newline help... > I must

Re: [PHP-DB] test

2002-12-05 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Test successful. Congratulations. Ignatius "You can't trust the Russians. They have no word for 'détente'". - Original Message - From: "Art Chevalier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:38 PM Subject

Re: [PHP-DB] Function questions...

2002-12-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
I would replace $query = "SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE verifyurl='$safe_verify_string'"; by $query = "SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE verifyurl='{$safe_verify_string}'"; to force interpolation of variable $safe_verify_string HTH Ignatius - Original Me

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL Array

2002-12-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Try: $query = "INSERT INTO anagrafe (codice,nome, cognome, codicefiscale) VALUES ('" .strtoupper($codicefiscale) ."','{$NOME}','" .strtoupper($cognome) ."','" .strtoupper($co dicefiscale) ."', etc" then mysql_query ( $query ) ; Ignatius - Original

Re: [PHP-DB] CREATE TABLE QUERY PHP/MySQL

2002-12-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Very likely you have to GRANT the CREATE permission to your PHP user account. Also investigate the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE grant status available since version 4+. Very convenient. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PHP-DB] CREATE TABLE QUERY PHP/MySQL

2002-12-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
A typical way to use it is mysql_***( *** ) or die( mysql_error() ) ; > -Original Message- > From: Ignatius Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] CREATE TABLE QUERY PHP/MySQL > > Very

Re: [PHP-DB] Form TextArea Formatting

2002-12-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
What do you mean by formatted text? All you can enter in a textarea is a sequence of characters belonging to your encoding schema (including non-printing characters). Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Keith Spiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [PHP-DB] Select Query Help...

2002-12-10 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Try: SELECT DISTINCT F.question, F.answer FROM Faqs AS F, FaqsRelatedToProducts Table AS FP WHERE F.faqid = FP.faqid DTH? Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Michael Knauf/Niles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Decem

Re: [PHP-DB] Catalog

2002-12-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
lots of excellent resources on www.devshed.com, notably a PHPShop tutorial and a catalogue implementation. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Hynek Semecký ME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:5

Re: [PHP-DB] flytte bsd harddisk til anden pc

2002-12-12 Thread Ignatius Reilly
なるほど. 私も,そう言う問題に会った. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Martin Allan Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] flytte bsd harddisk til anden pc Hej Allesammen, har et strt

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting more than asked for

2002-12-14 Thread Ignatius Reilly
$SQL = " SELECT * FROM resources where unit_id='{$unit_id}' order by level "; Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Alex Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Selecting mo

Re: [PHP-DB] Get error message, need help

2002-12-16 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You should write: $myquery = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE username = '{$user}' ..." ; As a bonus, it is much more readable. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:

Re: [PHP-DB] trees in MySQL

2002-12-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
The difficulty you are being confronting could be alleviated by using an XML data model (meaning non relational). Of course, I don't know about your requirements, but it could be a direction worth investigating. I use the php_xslt.dll (sablotron) extension, which I find works quite pleasantly.

Re: [PHP-DB] Set Logout Time for No Activity

2002-12-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Another possibility is after each page call to rewrite the client's cookie's validity to, say, current time + 1800s: session_start() ; setcookie( session_name(), session_id(), time()+1800, "/" ) ; ob_start() ; // etc. If the user does not call a page for more than 30', the cookie will be destroy

Re: [PHP-DB] form validation

2002-12-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Hi Mignon, it is really quite simple: you can pack several screens (each containing for instance a form) in a same script. each form contains a hidden field, say "selector" now, the script begins by a switch: if ( isset( $_POST['submit'] ) ) { switch ( $selector ) { // Switch 1: process the

Re: [PHP-DB] Help with date....

2003-01-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You can do it very nicely with MySQL: $query = "SELECT WEEKDAY( '{$mydate}' )" ; Provided your date is correctly formatted ( -mm-dd ) Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Rodrigo Corrêa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

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

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
as an id, unique and required, instead of "name") Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Lisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-DB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
m?" D. Ivester, CEO, Coca Cola - Original Message - From: "Lisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-DB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:11 PM

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

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
table only. Therefore: WHERE YEAR(ads_displayrate.date) = '2003' AND MONTH(ads_displayrate.date) = '01' (if your table ads_displayrate has such date fields). HTH Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Lisi" <[EMAI

Re: [PHP-DB] LEFT JOIN not working

2003-01-15 Thread Ignatius Reilly
. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Henrik Hornemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "PHP-DB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:56 AM Su

Re: [PHP-DB] making my own week? :)

2003-01-15 Thread Ignatius Reilly
The simplest seems to store the date normally in the DB. When you need your special "Cinema" date, just do a modulo 7: myDayOfWeek = ( WEEKDAY( '2003-01-17' ) + 3 ) % 7 HTH Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Matthew Nock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PHP-DB] Mail() and replies

2003-01-15 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Quite doable. Check the IMAP functions. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Baumgartner Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Mail() and replies > Is there any way to

Re: [PHP-DB] need help spotting this php parse error

2003-01-23 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Dunno. I also remember once having a parse error, but it was on line 35. Cheers Ignatius - Original Message - From: "David Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:53 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] need help s

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL Query Question

2003-01-23 Thread Ignatius Reilly
It is safe to test if the divisor is zero: replace columnB/columnC by IF( columnC = 0, 0, columnB/columnC ) (the "0" could be anything else; this depends on your business logic) Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] Import and export data from php/mysql

2003-01-24 Thread Ignatius Reilly
What is your problem exactly? Have you investigated the MySQL manual under: LOAD DATA INFILE SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE ? Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Bruno Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP-db list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, J

Re: [PHP-DB] SQL: Limit 1 usage?

2003-01-30 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Doubly wrong PHP syntax. Try instead: $sql = "SELECT * FROM accessnums WHERE areacode='{$_POST['areacode']}' and city='{$_POST['cityselected']}' ORDER BY network LIMIT 1"; Ignatius - Original Message - From: "jason wesley upton" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PHP-DB] update

2003-02-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If you want to use WHERE clause, see the INSERT table SELECT ... syntax. Extremely convenient. You inherit all the flexibility of the SELECT statement. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Doug Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ike Austin" <

Re: [PHP-DB] first 10 or so words

2003-02-14 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Or rather SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,delim,count) Because you want to use a custom delimiter (space, comma) Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Peter Lovatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Levick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thur

Re: [PHP-DB] printing repeat table headers

2003-02-16 Thread Ignatius Reilly
It is not easy to design a SQL query that will repeat headers every 33 rows. So this should be done in the PHP code. Why not use a counter, that you increment at every mysql_fetch_array() and test if !( $counter % 33 ) Side remarks: you could also define a CSS class for TH and use TH as headers.

Re: [PHP-DB] Web Page Caching

2003-02-17 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You can append to the URL a dummy variable that is sure to change every time: http://.../mypage?nocache= This will force the refresh. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Philip Zee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, Fe

Re: [PHP-DB] Grabbing emails into MySql

2003-02-24 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Investigate PHP's IMAP functions. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Dave Carrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:09 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Grabbing emails into MySql Hi All How would I go about

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing an array in the database

2003-02-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If your array is multidimensional, you could store it in a javascript-style: // get the print_r() // replace (recursively) all instances of "Array( .. )" by "[...]" If you ever plan to write a class or a function to do that, let me know! Ignatius -

Re: [PHP-DB] Help with a query

2003-03-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Still not good. Try: "SELECT a.item_id, a.subtotal, a.quantity FROM shopping_cart a, orders b WHERE b.session_id = ".session_id()." AND b.customer_id = $customer_id AND a.order_id = b.border_id" session_id() must be interpolated. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Co

Re: [PHP-DB] I'm almost there! Just a little more help

2003-03-07 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You must use absolute path names "c:\\..." in copy(). As a matter of personal hygiene, I would not recommend to use file/ dir names containing spaces in your document root directory (or any place that the PHP user must have access). Why not try c:/apache/htdocs ? Ignatius - Original Message

Re: [PHP-DB] table relationship

2003-03-10 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Yes. You have to use the "subtype" relational design: USER user_id (PK) | | | || | |

Re: [PHP-DB] Dynamic Variable names

2003-03-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
The way to go is: ${"tips_".$i} where $i is your increment control variable HTH Ignatius, Brussels "Where the fuck is Belgium?" (D. Ivester, CEO, Coca-Cola) - Original Message - From: "David Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: [

Re: [PHP-DB] sorting problem...

2003-03-13 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Take a look at the MySQL DATE_FORMAT() function. Ignatius - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:43 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] sorting problem... > Hi All, > > I need to sort some da

Re: [PHP-DB] several pointers to records in one field

2003-03-18 Thread Ignatius Reilly
The standard relational way is a relationship table: children - FK_parentID (parent) FK_childrenID (child) PRIMARY KEY ( FK_parentID, FK_childrenID ) HTH Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Alain Barthélemy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ph

Re: [PHP-DB] Solidarity with the World View

2003-03-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Largely off topic palso. This mailing list does not care about what you have to say on this subject. It is a great professional tool for many of us, and does not need to be polluted. Ignatius - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [PHP-DB] database model

2003-06-04 Thread Ignatius Reilly
I have been using Dezign for Databases from Datanamic for several years. http://www.datanamic.com/ Not free, but invaluably helpful. I strongly recommend it. Ignatius - Original Message - From: "Snijders, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

Re: [PHP-DB] array fill/sort question

2003-06-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Another approach: 1. Load all results from the query in an array 2. Sort the array using a custom-defined user-defined comparison function ( usort() ). Study the example in the PHP manual. Writing your own comparison function is easy: - explode your IP addresses in 4 items each ( explode() ) - com

Re: [PHP-DB] Keeping entries of a select-box after submitting the form

2003-06-13 Thread Ignatius Reilly
What you can do is replicate all s with hidden fields: Al di Meola John McLaughlin ... ... But I fail to see why so doing would be useful. Your dynamic form is created after some query; therefore why not simply call the same query after submission to obtain all possible values of the options

Re: [PHP-DB] time without seconds

2003-06-17 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Check the TIME_FORMAT(time,format) MySQL function. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Lisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP-DB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] time without seconds > If I have a time stored in MySQL, and

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL editor

2003-06-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Try also DBTools (forWindows). Very nice. Been using for 2 years, and happy about it. http://www.dbtools.com.br/EN/ Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Achilles Maroulis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:46 AM Subject:

Re: [PHP-DB] checking a string for numbers

2003-06-26 Thread Ignatius Reilly
$extract = preg_replace( "/[^0-9]/", "", $str ) // will extract the figures from your string HTH Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Jamie Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:04 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] checking a s

Re: [PHP-DB] mssql and Apache 1.3.28 and Win2k

2003-08-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
I don't know the reason (perhaps OS-based, since tables are implemented as eponymous files), but it was a pretty awful idea to allow special chars in names in the first place. you probably have only two options, equally unpleasant: - rename your tables and columns - back-tick all your non-standard

Re: [PHP-DB] adding integer to field in query

2003-08-14 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Your SQL looks legal (at least for MySQL). Probably a PHP error then. Do a die( $query ) to see if the query is well-formed and $thisID correctly interpolated. Personnally I would rather write: $query=" UPDATE Choice SET visits = visits + 1 WHERE ID = {$thisID} ; " [if ID is o

Re: [PHP-DB] Breaking down a table field....

2003-08-14 Thread Ignatius Reilly
SELECT DISTINCT unit... Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:37 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Breaking down a table field > I have a table, wth many entries. > Each entry has been asigned a

Re: [PHP-DB] Queries probably timing out

2003-08-19 Thread Ignatius Reilly
- Original Message - From: "Dillon, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP-DB List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Queries probably timing out I'm doing queries on tables with 45,000 rows in one table and 1-2000 rows in a

Re: [PHP-DB] Need For SPEED

2003-08-21 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Sorry I don't seem to get it. 1. What is"the import function provided in PHPList" ? 2. What do you mean by "initialize each data record " ? Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Creigh Shank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL, PHP or ghost?

2003-08-27 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Read the MySQL manual. "0" value is interpreted as 2000. Your empty string is converted to an integer, thus 0. HTH Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Peter Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:39 AM Subject: [P

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL, PHP or ghost?

2003-08-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
e logical. I have no quarrel with this behaviour. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Peter Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:13 PM

Re: [PHP-DB] Simple field replace...?

2003-08-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
hundreds of what? rows or columns? Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Simple field replace...? > Hi there, > I need to take a field in my database, and remove

Re: [PHP-DB] Simple field replace...?

2003-08-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Then a simple substring will do: UPDATE mytable SET url = SUBSTRING( url FROM 5 ) btw your date column looks pretty awful. HTH Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: &l

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL, PHP or ghost?

2003-08-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
(I do not know what SQL-92 says about this). Therefore data validation should be done outside MySQL. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Martin Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Bec

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL, PHP or ghost?

2003-08-28 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You may decide that another RDBMS may suit your needs better. Someone told me that Oracle is quite nice. Ig _ - Original Message - From: "Martin Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT Part of a Field

2003-08-29 Thread Ignatius Reilly
SUBSTRING() _ - Original Message - From: "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] SELECT Part of a Field > Hi, > > How can I SELECT a portion of a field in a table for example the first > charac

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL: CREATE TABLE, BLOB, UNIQUE, INDEX etc

2003-08-29 Thread Ignatius Reilly
You should be very wary of the CREATE TABLE ... SELECT statement. >From experience, the types created are not always conform to intuition - I've had my share of nasty surprises Much safer to do a CREATE TABLE statement defining the column types, then do an INSERT INTO ... SELECT Ignatius

Re: [PHP-DB] Need For SPEED

2003-08-21 Thread Ignatius Reilly
What is your data load method? What is the type of your table(s)? With LOAD DATA and text files, I load several million rows in about a minute. Also please don't cross-post. Better first find out what the most suitable mailing list is. Ignatius _ - Original Message --

Re: [PHP-DB] UNION Clause in queries

2003-08-31 Thread Ignatius Reilly
UNION appeared in MySQL 4.0.0 Mayhap your provider has not yet upgraded. There is no such thing as disabling/ granting UNION. HTH Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "John Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 8:58 PM Sub

Re: [PHP-DB] all files in a directory

2003-09-05 Thread Ignatius Reilly
There are many good user-contribued examples in the online PHP manual at function readdir() Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "FB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] all files in a directory

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL: How to properly extract fields from retrieved single record ???

2003-09-22 Thread Ignatius Reilly
read the PHP manual and examples under the function mysql_fetch_array(). I find the MySQL manual is very well done and helpful. I've been using it as a reference for 2 years. Take a harder look! Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "-{ Rene Brehmer }-" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PHP-DB] update db with variables

2003-09-24 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Quotes missing around $value. Try instead: mysql_query( "UPDATE tablename SET {$name} LIKE '{$value}' WHERE ID={$id}") Of course, even though the code does not show, you have properly validated user input before firing this query... HTH Ignatius _ - Original Message -

Re: [PHP-DB] mySQL vs pgSQL | php vs others

2003-09-24 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Yeah, banking is too serious a business in Argentina, as everybody knows, to entrust to MySQL. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Martin Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:24 PM

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Email Application

2003-09-25 Thread Ignatius Reilly
If your mail server supports IMAP, you should use the PHP IMAP functions. Very convenient. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:42 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: Email Application > Hey

Re: [PHP-DB] Round a number

2003-10-03 Thread Ignatius Reilly
SELECT TRIM( TRAILING '.' FROM TRIM( TRAILING '0' FROM mycol ) ) Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:12 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Round a number > Hi, > > I have a query that r

Re: [PHP-DB] Round a number

2003-10-03 Thread Ignatius Reilly
l Message ----- From: "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DB list PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Round a number > SELECT > TRIM( TRA

Re: [PHP-DB] REGEXP and Variables.

2003-10-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Can't you do without REGEX? eg WHERE employ_id = '($employ_id)' OR company LIKE '($name)' REGEXes are expensive. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Shannon Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: [

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL Regular expression

2003-10-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Problem is, REGEX will only test for a match, not returning anything other than 0|1 You can instead: 1. Use a UDF doing just that (counting occurences in a string): http://www.tsc.ro/free/ (haven't tried it myself, because no Windows dll available) 2. Replace successively all figures by '' and c

Re: [PHP-DB] pass by reference

2003-10-09 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Specify it only at function definition: myFunction( &$var1, &$var2 ) { // ... } $var = myFunction( $var1, $var2 ) ; Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Shovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:54 PM Subjec

Re: [PHP-DB] TIME FORMAT USING PHP

2003-10-11 Thread Ignatius Reilly
$time = "0900" ; $time2 = substr( $time, 0, 2 ).":".substr( $time, 2, 2 ) ; Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Delz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] TIME FORMAT USING PHP > Hi All, > > We h

Re: [PHP-DB] query for multiple values

2003-10-15 Thread Ignatius Reilly
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column IN ( 'this', 'that', 'theother' ) Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Robbie Staufer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:10 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] query for multiple value

Re: [PHP-DB] Multiple forms and multiple submissions

2003-10-18 Thread Ignatius Reilly
One solution is to use a javascript to set your hidden field to "already_submitted" (or such) at the end of the last form page. Therefore upon refresh, the user will come to the "already submitted" page. Add one "already submitted" switch case. BTW your construct switch ( ) { } else is quite non-

Re: [PHP-DB] Using two colomns of mysql data as key/value pairs in arrays

2003-10-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
mysql_fetch_array( $result ) _ - Original Message - From: "Devon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Using two colomns of mysql data as key/value pairs in arrays > I have been scouring the online do

Re: [PHP-DB] Using two colomns of mysql data as key/value pairs in arrays

2003-10-20 Thread Ignatius Reilly
Easy, old boys. Nobody has "holed" or meant to hole anybody. Let's keep this ML what it is, that is a great learning and working instrument. Ignatius _ - Original Message - From: "Jon Kriek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003

Re: [PHP-DB] date function

2003-11-02 Thread Ignatius Reilly
have a look at the PEAR date package. http://pear.php.net/package/Date _ - Original Message - From: "OpenSource" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] date function Hi guys, This might not be the be

Re: [PHP-DB] Select Value with 's

2003-11-06 Thread Ignatius Reilly
SQL. Backticks force reading the string as a SQL object (db, table, column), as opposed to a string. Eg you could in theory have columns called "select" or "Mes Documents", and do: SELECT * FROM `select` AS S, `Mes Documents`AS MD ... of course it is wholly unadvisable to do so. Best to steer cl

Re: [PHP-DB] dynamic graph on web site

2003-11-10 Thread Ignatius Reilly
The jpgraph library is what you're looking for. _ - Original Message - From: "Hull, Douglas D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Note To php mysql List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] dynamic graph on web site In php/

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