[PHP-DB] Re: Looking for simpler way to do this...

2004-03-22 Thread Frank Flynn
Rene, Here are my thoughts: In general don't ever use "select * ..." yes it works fine but it's cleaner to always spell out the columns you expect. Also you are often returning data you don't need (overhead for the server). If you ever alter or add a column you could mess up your code but not g

[PHP-DB] Re: Looking for simpler way to do this...

2004-03-22 Thread Justin Patrin
-{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote: I'm working with PHP 4.3.0 w. MySQL 4.0.14b on Windows XP I've written my own (pretty advanced actually - or it will be once I get the code completed) forum system (why? because I wanted to learn how to handle relational databases with PHP/MySQL, and then I just decided