RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic SQL + result resource error

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
You aren't calling mysql_query() to execute the query. //$find is text box input $wordsarray = explode(" ",$find); $sql = "SELECT bandname FROM bands WHERE (bandname LIKE "; $i = 0; while ($i < count($wordsarray)) { $word = current($wordsarray); next($wordsarray); $sql=$sql."$wor

RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic SQL + result resource error

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
The code you're referencing is my modification of his original post. :) -Original Message- From: Ben Bleything [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 8:04 PM To: 'Matthew Loff'; 'Mark Gordon'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic SQ

RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic SQL + result resource error

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Loff
, July 08, 2001 8:13 PM To: 'Matthew Loff'; 'Mark Gordon'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Dynamic SQL + result resource error Guess I'm just a big dumbass then, aren't I =P Oops. I suppose that would cause it to fail then, wouldn't it? => Ben --

RE: [PHP-DB] Need a shopping cart

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Everyone suggesting "Easy! Just install Mysql!" makes me laugh... :) Jeff-- I suggest you check: 1) http://www.hotscripts.com/ 2) http://www.zend.com/ 3) http://www.sourceforge.com/ 4) http://www.mysql.com/ (Just kidding!) Any shopping cart that uses ODBC should work just fine-- and moreso,

RE: [PHP-DB] Need a shopping cart

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
Ha ha... It makes perfect sense! I just assumed that since he was asking, he was implying that he didn't have the ability (due to administrative reasons) to install mysql. Good point, though. :) -Original Message- From: Tom Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12,

RE: [PHP-DB] Left Join is producing duplicate results - MySQL & relational tables

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Loff
What about... SELECT WLPbib.bibID, WLPbib.title, WLPbib.publisher, WLPbib.publicationDate, WLPaddress.city, WLPaddress.state, WLPprofile.firstName, WLPprofile.lastName, WLPprofile.organization, WLPcountry.languageName FROM

RE: [PHP-DB] Left Join is producing duplicate results - MySQL & relational tables

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
2, 2001 10:48 AM To: Matthew Loff Cc: 'Dobromir Velev'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Left Join is producing duplicate results - MySQL & relational tables Hi Matthew, Matthew Loff wrote: > What about... > SELECT WLPbib.bibID, >

php-db@lists.php.net

2001-07-12 Thread Matthew Loff
I think he just means a hypertext anchor, that contains a string identifying the record. A HREF="fun.php?id=$id" -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:27 PM To: Rankin, Randy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Escaping &

RE: [PHP-DB] Selecting userID

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Loff
Brad-- I see what you're trying to do. Here's how this issue with a site I did, perhaps this will help: Eliminate the database of images all together. Create an image that says "No Picture Available", and save it as "/images/no_photo.jpg". When (if) a user uploads a file, have it rename the f

RE: [PHP-DB] display errors

2001-07-13 Thread Matthew Loff
I'm assuiming this means you're pulling the name from the DB and putting it as the value of a text input, as in: INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="name" VALUE="$name" The quotes should fix that problem. -Original Message- From: Christopher Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July

RE: [PHP-DB] PLEASE HELP! Problem with ODBC string insert

2001-07-15 Thread Matthew Loff
It might help us to see exactly what the query is... Could you insert an echo statement and let us know what SQL query it's producing? echo " INSERT INTO News (NewsDate,NewsTitle,NewsText) VALUES ('$NowDate','$NewsTitle','$NewsText') "; -Original Message- From: AKA Hook

RE: [PHP-DB] PLEASE HELP! Problem with ODBC string insert

2001-07-15 Thread Matthew Loff
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] PLEASE HELP! Problem with ODBC string insert Here is the echo output. UPDATE News SET NewsTitle = 'Text', NewsText = 'can\'t use quotes!' WHERE NewsID = 16 "Ma

RE: [PHP-DB] relay response transactions between PHP scripts on different servers

2001-07-15 Thread Matthew Loff
Ken-- If you have access to that server with the SQL database... Then instead of creating an additional PHP script on the SQL server... Could you simply add a username/password that was allowed to access that particular database (read-only, of course) remotely? If that isn't an option, here's

RE: [PHP-DB] PLEASE HELP! Problem with ODBC string insert

2001-07-15 Thread Matthew Loff
of single and double but nothing has worked. There HAS to be an answer out there! Do certain SQL statements just not work in PHP / Access? Is this a bug in Access or PHP? If I can't get this to work then I won't be able to use PHP for this site! Someone please shed some light on t

RE: [PHP-DB] relay response transactions between PHP scripts on different servers

2001-07-15 Thread Matthew Loff
- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:40 AM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] relay response transactions between PHP scripts on different servers Here's the part that confuses me: How does MovieResponder.php on your sit

RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
The "body" of the response is the data that the http://www.site.com/MovieResponder.php script would produce. The fread() call that I meantioned before would read -all- of this data into a variable. -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 1

RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
d, your $data variable would contain: Movie One 1977 Movie Two 1977 Movie Three 1977 Easy as that! It's a very simple concept. -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:04 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject

RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
?> The $page variable will contain the output of http://snaps.php.net/. Good luck! --Matt -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:50 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] the body of the re

RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
et started with PHP-- I'm sure others on the list could make some great recommendations. --Matt -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 5:17 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] the body of the

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: the body of the response

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
"are you saying that i can grab the output of your echo() statements in YOUR PHP script by Fopen()ing your URL in MY script and then Fread()ing that resulting file pointer?" --Yes! That's -exactly- what I've been trying to explain. :) That's the -best- way I can think of retrieving the info fr

RE: [PHP-DB] remote database exchange

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
The mysql_connect() function accepts a host name, which can be the internet address of another machine! However-- the MySQL database on that machine has to be set up to allow outside connections for whatever particular username/password you are using! Please see these pages to answer your ques

RE: [PHP-DB] remote database exchange

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:56 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] remote database exchange Suppose I Need to get Vendor prices from a very large remote (Oracle) price list . They probably don't have PHP insta

RE: [PHP-DB] remote database exchange

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
I am not familiar with Oracle, but by looking through the PHP docs, it appears that you can't connect remotely to an Oracle server... Am I wrong about this, or is it a limitation of the Oracle library, or is Oracle not built to allow remote connections? -Original Message- From: CC Zon

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
Even if a PHP host doesn't have all the DBMS extensions you need, you could compile them and load them yourself with dl() http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dl.php I thought you might want to keep that in mind, in case one particular host has a great price but not all the features you need..

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
ed in: if(!extension_loaded("mysql")) dl("mysql.so"); That's assuming that the mysql ext. is named "mysql.so" in a compiled state, of course. -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:26 PM To: Matthew Loff; &#

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
ng those shared modules is another story-- I'm not quite sure how to. Can anyone else help? -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:18 PM To: Ken Sommers; Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] php/mysql

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
om: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:45 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>? thanks Mat, I found this FAQ: When I try to connect to mysql from php I get this er

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
dl("mysql.so"); won't compile it... You need to provide the "mysql.so" file for it to link to, but I don't know where to obtain it... :( -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:12 AM To: Matt

RE: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS support>?

2001-07-16 Thread Matthew Loff
brary (e.g. mysql.so) that you need... I'd check for .rpm files... -Original Message- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:43 AM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] php/mysql/unix-Linux hosting with major DBMS suppor

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql and oracle outer join syntax

2001-07-24 Thread Matthew Loff
In Oracle, the syntax for a theta-style join (the one you're describing) is: SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE item1 (+) = item2 However, MySQL doesn't support this syntax. The only way to do left (outer) joins in mysql is the way you described: SELECT ... FROM ... LEFT JOIN ... ON ... = ... -O

RE: [PHP-DB] WHERE field = str

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
Certainly not in the PHP manual, and LIKE isn't really covered in the MySQL manual either... Here's a good page with an intro to SQL queries: http://developer.ecorp.net/sqltut.htm --Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2

RE: [PHP-DB] WHERE field = str

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
Good call, Paul... I checked through the manual briefly to see if LIKE was in there, I guess I missed that page. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:08 PM To: Matthew Loff; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'PHP DataBase-List

RE: [PHP-DB] Inexplicable PHP/MySQL behaviour

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Loff
I'm not sure if this will solve it or not, but I found 2 problems... 1) You're using 1 equals sign 2) You're comparing a integer to a string Try this... If ((int)$row["home_score"] == 255) run code to output a db entry form -Original Message- From: Aaron Vegh [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [PHP-DB] format dates from a database

2001-08-19 Thread Matthew Loff
strftime("format", strtotime($database_time_string)); "format" is defined in the page for strftime(). strtotime() converts the MySQL date into a UNIX timestamp. -Original Message- From: Caleb Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [PHP-DB] Getting key of row just inserted into mySQL

2001-08-22 Thread Matthew Loff
This has been covered countless times on the list... :) http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php -Original Message- From: Grant Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Getting key of row just i

RE: [PHP-DB] [newbie] MP3 Tags

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Loff
You'll have to take care of the recursive directory walking function... Here's code I found to get the ID3 tag from an MP3 file: http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=429 --Matt -Original Message- From: pjc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:13 AM To: [EMA

RE: [PHP-DB] Application-based locking with PHP?

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Loff
PostgreSQL does row-level locking... But I'm more familiar with MySQL, as I presume you are... If you want to rely on MySQL's table locking, but are worried about a user aborting the script, see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.misc.php A combination of ignore_user_abort() and connection_abor

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: NEWBIE - Needs Assistance with Joins

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Loff
There should -not- be a semicolon at the end of the SQL query when using mysql_query() through PHP... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php The problem lies elsewhere. -Original Message- From: Vera Algoet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:

RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie But Urgent

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Loff
ASP list members will tell you ASP is better/easier for this, PHP list members will tell you PHP is better/easier for this. You're asking a pretty loaded question... I, personally, believe that PHP is much better/easier, but I learned PHP coming from a C/C++ background.. If you have done progr

RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie But Urgent

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Loff
: Matthew Loff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:11 PM To: 'Radith'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie But Urgent ASP list members will tell you ASP is better/easier for this, PHP list members will tell you PHP is better/easier for th

RE: [PHP-DB] HTML or PHP?

2001-10-02 Thread Matthew Loff
Without spaces, the URL won't line break... I recommend one of two things... 1) Use a for() or while() loop with substr(), to print out, say, 50 characters per line, then break to the next line, until reaching the end of the string... 2) Use an ellipsis ("...") to cut out the middle of the URL

RE: [PHP-DB] How to write errorhandling??

2001-10-21 Thread Matthew Loff
If you use the at symbol to supress the error message from being printed, the if() statement will still recognize an error has occurred... So, try this: if (@mail($email,$subject_confirm_account, $message_confirm_account, $from_confirm_account)) { HEADER("Location:index.php?fuseaction=t

RE: [PHP-DB] losing first row of an array

2001-11-02 Thread Matthew Loff
You are overwriting the first row. $result = mysql_query("SELECT clubac.id AS clubacid, clubac.club_id, clubac.ac_year, clubac.ac_type, club.id FROM clubac, club WHERE club.id = '$club_id' AND clubac.club_id = club.id"); if(mysql_num_rows()) while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)

RE: [PHP-DB] losing first row of an array

2001-11-02 Thread Matthew Loff
...lol is there any to write columns first but still call fields with headers? as writing in a table would not allow keeping tags open ie. echo"col[1]"; echo"col[2]"; array_flip do the job? but how? Sean Matthew Loff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 005c0

RE: [PHP-DB] MySQL Restarting A LOT

2001-11-20 Thread Matthew Loff
You have the wrong list. http://www.mysql.com/documentation/lists.html -Original Message- From: Jonathan Hilgeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] MySQL Restarting A LOT Okay, this is beginning to bug. I have

RE: [PHP-DB] Intranet Server

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Loff
If you run a local DNS server, and have all computers in the school use it as their DNS server (which is likely the scenerio) then you can create local TLDs (top-level domains) as you please, as far as I know. If you're running a local UNIX server, take a look at the BIND documentation. If you

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-WIN] call a function from a DLL?

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Loff
You can system()/exec()/passthru() and run rundll32 on the library, can't you? -Original Message- From: James Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:34 PM To: Alain Samoun; GRI Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: [PHP-DB] Hashes

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Loff
Robert-- You're on the right track... I'm assuming $row is the result of a mysql_fetch_assoc() call, and $row['item'] contains the hashed value (either "m_r", "m_c", or whatever)... Try this: m_r, 'Mens Charm' => m_c, 'Womens Ring' => w_r,'Womens Charm' => w_c); #query db and get a result