[PHP-DB] Re:data grabbing and mathematics!

2005-03-08 Thread JeRRy
Okay I have this: $sql = "UPDATE round" . ($round_number -1) . " SET score=score+1 WHERE $select='$winner'"; Which works as it should. Now after all that is completed how is the best way to retrieve the nickname and the score in that round and update another table? Okay two tables, one is ro

Re: [PHP-DB] Re:data grabbing and mathematics!

2005-03-08 Thread Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]
owed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re:data grabbing and mathematics! 1) use a single table, with 23 columns instead of 2. Then sum the columns in your query. Actually I disagree strongly unless your intention is to be able to read the rows yourself ! As the stated intention

Re: [PHP-DB] Re:data grabbing and mathematics!

2005-03-07 Thread Martin Norland
Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media] wrote: At 17:15 07/03/2005 +, you wrote: well - two options spring to mind... 1) use a single table, with 23 columns instead of 2. Then sum the columns in your query. - 1 query, no loops required. 2) have your script pull everything and add it all up. - 22 qu

[PHP-DB] Re:data grabbing and mathematics!

2005-03-07 Thread Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]
At 17:15 07/03/2005 +, you wrote: JeRRy wrote: Hi, I have 23 tables, well I have more but these 23 tables are the main agenda regarding this question. In each of the table is a column titled "score" and a column titled "nickname" ... These are the two columns we need for this. well - two option