test both and let us know
bastien
From: "Andrew Darby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL/PHP Left Join Question
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:33:15 -0400
Thanks to Bastien and TG for their suggestions. I'd been looking at
it Basti
Thanks to Bastien and TG for their suggestions. I'd been looking at
it Bastien's way, but TG's is probably better suited to what I want to
do. I'd forgotten about that possibility, cramming it all into an
array . . . .
Again, thanks for the help,
Andrew
p.s. I'd be curious about the relative
Some good examples of how to deal with this in PHP have already been
given, especially the associative array solution.
The question I have is with something like this, how do you weight out
the pros/cons of code development versus speed?
i.e. for code development breaking the logic up into 2 qu
I approach this by assigning a value to a variable and then comparing to see
if i need to write out a new title
$oldDVD = "";
while ($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
//decide whether to show the DVD title
if ($oldDVD != $rows['title'])
{
echo "".$rows['title']."";
$oldDVD = $rows
One thing I've done in situations like this is just load your returned DB data
into an array. Something like this would do:
$dvdarr[$result['call_number']]['Title'] = $result['title'];
$dvdarr[$result['call_number']]['Publisher'] = $result['publisher'];
$dvdarr[$result['call_number']]['Comments