[PHP-DB] populating multi-dimensional array

2007-04-11 Thread Matt Anderton
long-time reader, first-time poster. I am trying to use PEAR's 'hierselect' in HTML_Quickform. I have category and subcategory tables. I want to populate a drop-down based on category, then populate the subcategory based on the user's category selection. mysql> desc category; ++---

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: populating multi-dimensional array

2007-04-11 Thread Matt Anderton
thanks for the advice Roberto! the typos in (2) WERE the cause of my problems. I appreciate the comments on my SQL queries and table structures too. sloppy rookie mistakes. ~ matt On 4/11/07, Roberto Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Anderton wrote: > long-time reader, f

[PHP-DB] php portfolio

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Anderton
I have a kind-of off topic rookie question: most programmers have a web portfolio right? -- a URI to put on their resume that has examples of their work. what do employers expect to see if they ask for such an example? a working web app? links to multiple working web apps? actual code? I am

Re: [PHP-DB] php portfolio

2007-04-19 Thread Matt Anderton
separate website? point the employer to the real deal first, then give him a link to a "behind the scenes" version? and then what? just throw in "" tags -- "this is how I did this part"? ~ matt On 4/19/07, bedul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: nope.. nothing du

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Anderton
you could do a RIGHT OUTER JOIN WHERE the company table is on the right to show you the companies that do not exist in the contacts table: SELECT a.name, b.name FROM contacts a RIGHT OUTER JOIN company b ON a.company_id = b.id WHERE a.name IS NULL; results: +--+---+ | name | name

Re: [PHP-DB] New to PHP/MySQL - Need help with images

2008-01-05 Thread Matt Anderton
how about like this: echo "\n"; $result = @mysql_query("SELECT image FROM specials"); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { echo "\n"; } echo "\n\n"; hope it helps! matt On Jan 5, 2008 4:51 PM, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to make a table with one row and 3 columns h

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_connect() Help

2008-03-08 Thread Matt Anderton
Manysh -- maybe you missed the MySQL extension installation? 2nd or 3rd screen in the setup process there is a list of extensions -- none of them are installed by default. Your manual method of creating the 'ext' directory is a step in the right direction, but you probably have a missing directiv

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_connect() Help

2008-03-08 Thread Matt Anderton
x27;Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); >echo "Some problem here"; > } > else >echo "Connected?"; > > $dbname = 'sampleapp'; > $dbselect = @mysql_select_db($dbname); > > if ($dbselect) >echo "Connected to t

Re: [PHP-DB] Multiple values in SELECT query

2008-03-09 Thread Matt Anderton
I like the "IN" keyword: SELECT * FROM table WHERE name LIKE "ABC" AND listing_type IN ('1','2'); works kinda like PHP's "in_array" -- matt On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Ron Piggott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the correct syntax for where the results may be 1 or 2? What > have I

Re: [PHP-DB] Not updating certain fields in same row

2008-03-25 Thread Matt Anderton
I usually pre-populate the form with the values that are already in the record: (... using PEAR's MDB2 package -- http://pear.php.net/packages/MDB2 ) $query = "SELECT * FROM member WHERE username = '" . $_POST['username'] . "'"; $result = $db->query($query); $member = $result->fetchRow(MDB2_FETCH

Re: [PHP-DB] Not updating certain fields in same row

2008-03-25 Thread Matt Anderton
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Matt Anderton wrote: > > I usually pre-populate the form with the values that are already in > > the > > record: > > > > (... using PEAR's M

Re: [PHP-DB] Submit Button variable passing

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Anderton
pass the value of reference as an argument to your 'deleteCategory()' and 'renameCategory()' functions: function deleteCategory(refVal) { ... do something with refVal ... } function renameCategory(refVal) { ... do something with refVal ... } $table = "\n"; while($row = mysql_fetch_array(

Re: [PHP-DB] mySQL SELECT query

2008-08-29 Thread Matt Anderton
or NOT IN (0,4) -- matt On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Evert Lammerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > In the SQL standard this would be > > AND NOT ministry_directory.listing_approved=0 AND NOT > ministry_directory.listing_approved=4 > > MySQL supports (and there are probably more RDBs that do)

Re: [PHP-DB] Insert a xml file into a DB

2008-09-23 Thread Matt Anderton
I'm with Yves -- just store the xml files on the local disk and then record their *location* in the DB if you need to reference them. if you really want to store the xml in the db, why not just use a 'text' data type? -- matt On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM, YVES SUCAET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro