RE: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-06 Thread chip . wiegand
John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/04/2003 05:24:22 PM: Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Got it fixed. Just added a couple lines of code - $sql1 = select * from endusers where name like '$name'; $result1 = mysql_query($sql1); $count1 =

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread Dan Brunner
Hello!! Are talking about the same Post Question??? On another words, what is being duplicated?? If not, you can use auto_increment. Dan On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to modify some company web pages that include a form for asking the company

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread Miles Thompson
Chip, Given that you have duplicate entries, then one field, or a combination of several fields, will probably be unique. Before adding a record execute a SELECT, using the values from the form against that combination. If the number of records returned is greater than 0, then execute an

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread chip . wiegand
Dan Brunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/04/2003 01:24:13 PM: Hello!! Are talking about the same Post Question??? On another words, what is being duplicated?? If not, you can use auto_increment. Dan This pertains to every time a person visits the page and fills in the form - today,

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
I need to modify some company web pages that include a form for asking the company departments questions, such as service dept, etc. As the forms are currently built there is some field validation but no cookies. This info is saved in a mysql database, problem is, there are duplicate entries,

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread Miles Thompson
Chip, What's the database being used for then, if not to store and track questions and replies? If only as a repository of addresses that 's rather useless. Unless you want to track the frequency of user's questions, then you could update a counter field for their email address. If you've

Re: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread chip . wiegand
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Got it fixed. Just added a couple lines of code - $sql1 = select * from endusers where name like '$name'; $result1 = mysql_query($sql1); $count1 = mysql_num_rows($result1); if ($count1 == 0 ) $sql = insert into endusers..blah

RE: [PHP-DB] address info, forms, maintanance

2003-06-05 Thread John W. Holmes
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Got it fixed. Just added a couple lines of code - $sql1 = select * from endusers where name like '$name'; $result1 = mysql_query($sql1); $count1 = mysql_num_rows($result1); if ($count1 == 0 ) $sql = insert into