Re: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name
Many thanks. regards keith Miles Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Keith, You're building it upside down! If your design relies on adding columns to store data you will quickly run out of columns. More typically when you submit data you add a row of information to a database, not another column. Database design and normalization are topics which are too big to cover in an email, but there are a number of helpful tutorials. This one is pretty decent: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Normal/Normal1/page1.html The author describes both why data has to be normalized and how that is done. An internal link points to another article which helps you determine what to include in the tables. If the above doesn't suite, Google will return a slew of hits on sql tutorial normalization. I hope this will be helpful - Miles Thompson At 02:13 PM 1/17/2002 +, Keith Webb wrote: Ok i'm new to this stuff so maybe someone can give me a quick pointer on this one. I want to add a new column / Field with the date to a database every time the submit button is clicked. PHP doesn't seem to support the ALTER TABLE command from mysql or the ADD command. Is there a way to do this? Or am I building this upside down so to speak!!! thanks keith -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name
Keith, You're building it upside down! If your design relies on adding columns to store data you will quickly run out of columns. More typically when you submit data you add a row of information to a database, not another column. Database design and normalization are topics which are too big to cover in an email, but there are a number of helpful tutorials. This one is pretty decent: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Normal/Normal1/page1.html The author describes both why data has to be normalized and how that is done. An internal link points to another article which helps you determine what to include in the tables. If the above doesn't suite, Google will return a slew of hits on sql tutorial normalization. I hope this will be helpful - Miles Thompson At 02:13 PM 1/17/2002 +, Keith Webb wrote: Ok i'm new to this stuff so maybe someone can give me a quick pointer on this one. I want to add a new column / Field with the date to a database every time the submit button is clicked. PHP doesn't seem to support the ALTER TABLE command from mysql or the ADD command. Is there a way to do this? Or am I building this upside down so to speak!!! thanks keith -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name
Other than what sounds like a bad design decision, you can: $query = ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN newcol INT UNSIGNED AFTER anothercol; mysql_query($query) or die(Error: .mysql_error() ); -Original Message- From: Keith Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name Ok i'm new to this stuff so maybe someone can give me a quick pointer on this one. I want to add a new column / Field with the date to a database every time the submit button is clicked. PHP doesn't seem to support the ALTER TABLE command from mysql or the ADD command. Is there a way to do this? Or am I building this upside down so to speak!!! thanks keith -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
