php-general Digest 1 Oct 2012 16:37:18 -0000 Issue 7989
php-general Digest 1 Oct 2012 16:37:18 - Issue 7989 Topics (messages 319304 through 319318): Re: php can't insert data mysql table 319304 by: Tim Dunphy 319305 by: Ken Robinson 319309 by: Jim Giner 319310 by: Tommy Pham 319311 by: Jim Giner 319312 by: Tommy Pham 319313 by: Stuart Dallas 319314 by: Jim Giner 319315 by: Jim Giner 319316 by: Tim Dunphy 319317 by: Jim Giner SSHA Password Encryption 319306 by: Coþkun Baðrýaçýk 319307 by: Matijn Woudt 319308 by: viper Basic Statistics 319318 by: George R Smith Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: php-general-digest-subscr...@lists.php.net To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: php-general-digest-unsubscr...@lists.php.net To post to the list, e-mail: php-gene...@lists.php.net -- ---BeginMessage--- Oh btw, forgot to mention...here is the table definition.. sorry just realized you needed to know that mysql describe guitarwars; ++-+--+-+---+-+ | Field | Type| Null | Key | Default | Extra | ++-+--+-+---+-+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | 0 | | | date | timestamp | NO | | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP | | name | varchar(32) | YES | MUL | NULL | | | screenshot | varchar(30) | YES | | NULL | | ++-+--+-+---+-+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) thanks again! On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can connect to the database but for some reason the MySQL query string is bad. I've been over this for a while now and I think the problem is with the form. I was hoping to get the esteemed opinion of the list in where I may be going wrong. This code: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / titleGuitar Wars - Add Your High Score/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.css / /head body h2Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score/h2 ?php if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { // Grab the score data from the POST $name = $_POST['name']; $score = $_POST['score']; $screenshot = $_FILES['screenshot']['name']; if (!empty($name) !empty($score)) { // Connect to the database $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'admin', 'secretsauce', 'gwdb') or die('Cannot connect to database'); // Write the data to the database $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Cannot insert query'); // Confirm success with the user echo 'pThanks for adding your new high score!/p'; echo 'pstrongName:/strong ' . $name . 'br /'; echo 'strongScore:/strong ' . $score . '/p'; echo 'pa href=index.phplt;lt; Back to high scores/a/p'; // Clear the score data to clear the form $name = ; $score = ; mysqli_close($dbc); } else { echo 'p class=errorPlease enter all of the information to add your high score./p'; } } ? hr / form enctype=multipart/form-data method=post action=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ? input type=hidden name=MAX_FILE_SIZE value=32768 / label for=nameName:/label input type=text id=name name=name value=?php if (!empty($name)) echo $name; ? /br / label for=scoreScore:/label input type=text id=score name=score value=?php if (!empty($score)) echo $score; ? / br / label for=screenshotScreenshot:/label input type=file id=screenshot name=screenshot / hr / input type=submit value=Add name=submit / /form /body /html Results in this output: Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score Cannot insert query Thanks again for your help. This is an awesome list! Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- At 12:32 AM 10/1/2012, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can
[PHP] SSHA Password Encryption
Hi guys, I wanna change password into ldap directory, but password's encryption is SSHA. How do I encrypt the string to SSHA from php ? Thanks. -- *Coşkun Bağrıaçık* *Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi BAUM*
Re: [PHP] SSHA Password Encryption
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Coşkun Bağrıaçık coskun.bagria...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I wanna change password into ldap directory, but password's encryption is SSHA. How do I encrypt the string to SSHA from php ? Thanks. Don't want to be rude, but did you try Google? There are plenty examples out there how to do it in PHP. - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] SSHA Password Encryption
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Coşkun Bağrıaçık coskun.bagria...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I wanna change password into ldap directory, but password's encryption is SSHA. How do I encrypt the string to SSHA from php ? http://php.net/manual/en/function.sha1.php look @ user contribuited notes for SSHA LDAP password generation algorithm for standard PHP 5.0 $salt = sha1(rand()); $salt = substr($salt, 0, 4); $hash = base64_encode( sha1($password . $salt, true) . $salt ); return $hash; -- + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org/cotnact/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
On 10/1/2012 12:32 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can connect to the database but for some reason the MySQL query string is bad. I've been over this for a while now and I think the problem is with the form. I was hoping to get the esteemed opinion of the list in where I may be going wrong. This code: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / titleGuitar Wars - Add Your High Score/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.css / /head body h2Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score/h2 ?php if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { // Grab the score data from the POST $name = $_POST['name']; $score = $_POST['score']; $screenshot = $_FILES['screenshot']['name']; if (!empty($name) !empty($score)) { // Connect to the database $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'admin', 'secretsauce', 'gwdb') or die('Cannot connect to database'); // Write the data to the database $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Cannot insert query'); // Confirm success with the user echo 'pThanks for adding your new high score!/p'; echo 'pstrongName:/strong ' . $name . 'br /'; echo 'strongScore:/strong ' . $score . '/p'; echo 'pa href=index.phplt;lt; Back to high scores/a/p'; // Clear the score data to clear the form $name = ; $score = ; mysqli_close($dbc); } else { echo 'p class=errorPlease enter all of the information to add your high score./p'; } } ? hr / form enctype=multipart/form-data method=post action=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ? input type=hidden name=MAX_FILE_SIZE value=32768 / label for=nameName:/label input type=text id=name name=name value=?php if (!empty($name)) echo $name; ? /br / label for=scoreScore:/label input type=text id=score name=score value=?php if (!empty($score)) echo $score; ? / br / label for=screenshotScreenshot:/label input type=file id=screenshot name=screenshot / hr / input type=submit value=Add name=submit / /form /body /html Results in this output: Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score Cannot insert query Thanks again for your help. This is an awesome list! Tim You should have your error settings set to show everything. I include these three lines in all my development work: error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '1'); set_time_limit(2); In this case, I do think that your insert statement is incorrect - I could be wrong. I think the VALUES clause s/b just 'VALUE'. Also if you added MYSQLI_ERROR to your error handling you should get a very helpful message. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: In this case, I do think that your insert statement is incorrect - I could be wrong. I think the VALUES clause s/b just 'VALUE'. Also if you added MYSQLI_ERROR to your error handling you should get a very helpful message. VALUES also work. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/insert.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
On 10/1/2012 9:12 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: In this case, I do think that your insert statement is incorrect - I could be wrong. I think the VALUES clause s/b just 'VALUE'. Also if you added MYSQLI_ERROR to your error handling you should get a very helpful message. VALUES also work. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/insert.html Yeah - I just saw it in one of my scripts. So - adding the error handling and the call to mysqli_error should help the OP diagnose his problem. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php can't insert data mysql table
On 1 Oct 2012, at 05:32, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can connect to the database but for some reason the MySQL query string is bad. I've been over this for a while now and I think the problem is with the form. I was hoping to get the esteemed opinion of the list in where I may be going wrong. This code: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / titleGuitar Wars - Add Your High Score/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.css / /head body h2Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score/h2 ?php if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { // Grab the score data from the POST $name = $_POST['name']; $score = $_POST['score']; $screenshot = $_FILES['screenshot']['name']; if (!empty($name) !empty($score)) { // Connect to the database $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'admin', 'secretsauce', 'gwdb') or die('Cannot connect to database'); // Write the data to the database $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Cannot insert query'); // Confirm success with the user echo 'pThanks for adding your new high score!/p'; echo 'pstrongName:/strong ' . $name . 'br /'; echo 'strongScore:/strong ' . $score . '/p'; echo 'pa href=index.phplt;lt; Back to high scores/a/p'; // Clear the score data to clear the form $name = ; $score = ; mysqli_close($dbc); } else { echo 'p class=errorPlease enter all of the information to add your high score./p'; } } ? hr / form enctype=multipart/form-data method=post action=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ? input type=hidden name=MAX_FILE_SIZE value=32768 / label for=nameName:/label input type=text id=name name=name value=?php if (!empty($name)) echo $name; ? /br / label for=scoreScore:/label input type=text id=score name=score value=?php if (!empty($score)) echo $score; ? / br / label for=screenshotScreenshot:/label input type=file id=screenshot name=screenshot / hr / input type=submit value=Add name=submit / /form /body /html Results in this output: Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score Cannot insert query Assuming the first field is an autonumber you don't want to set it. Otherwise every row you try to insert will have an ID of 0, which will be a unique index clash after the first one. But take note of what everyone else is saying. You should be getting the error message when this happens which will tell you exactly what the problem is, above and beyond Cannot insert query (which, btw, makes no sense at all :)). -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
On 10/1/2012 12:32 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to learn and get comfortable with HTML forms in PHP. In one example I am trying to include a file upload in one of the forms. I can connect to the database but for some reason the MySQL query string is bad. I've been over this for a while now and I think the problem is with the form. I was hoping to get the esteemed opinion of the list in where I may be going wrong. This code: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / titleGuitar Wars - Add Your High Score/title link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=style.css / /head body h2Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score/h2 ?php if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { // Grab the score data from the POST $name = $_POST['name']; $score = $_POST['score']; $screenshot = $_FILES['screenshot']['name']; if (!empty($name) !empty($score)) { // Connect to the database $dbc = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'admin', 'secretsauce', 'gwdb') or die('Cannot connect to database'); // Write the data to the database $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Cannot insert query'); // Confirm success with the user echo 'pThanks for adding your new high score!/p'; echo 'pstrongName:/strong ' . $name . 'br /'; echo 'strongScore:/strong ' . $score . '/p'; echo 'pa href=index.phplt;lt; Back to high scores/a/p'; // Clear the score data to clear the form $name = ; $score = ; mysqli_close($dbc); } else { echo 'p class=errorPlease enter all of the information to add your high score./p'; } } ? hr / form enctype=multipart/form-data method=post action=?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ? input type=hidden name=MAX_FILE_SIZE value=32768 / label for=nameName:/label input type=text id=name name=name value=?php if (!empty($name)) echo $name; ? /br / label for=scoreScore:/label input type=text id=score name=score value=?php if (!empty($score)) echo $score; ? / br / label for=screenshotScreenshot:/label input type=file id=screenshot name=screenshot / hr / input type=submit value=Add name=submit / /form /body /html Results in this output: Guitar Wars - Add Your High Score Cannot insert query Thanks again for your help. This is an awesome list! Tim ON second glance - your table seems to have 4 fields: id,date,id,name,screenshot. Your insert has 5 values: VALUES (0, NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot') That right there is going to throw an error. BTW - You're saving the name of the screen shot file but are you actually saving the uploaded file somewhere else in your code? Didn't see it here and just wondered. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
oops - I added a an extra id field. There were only 4 in OP's DESCRIBE email. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
hey thanks guys adding debugging info worked. Actually it was mysqli_error() providing me with a specific error of where the problem was. Cannot insert query:Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY' This is the data in the table mysql select * from guitarwars; ++-+---+---+---+ | id | date| name | score | screenshot| ++-+---+---+---+ | 0 | 2012-10-01 11:55:45 | Tommy Tutone | 2442 | bg_titlestrip.jpg | | 1 | 2012-10-01 08:34:18 | Dunphy| 2 | proof.jpg | | 2 | 2012-10-01 00:25:53 | ray davies| NULL | 2241 | | 3 | 2008-04-22 14:37:34 | Paco Jastorius| NULL | NULL | | 4 | 2008-04-22 21:27:54 | Nevil Johansson | NULL | NULL | | 5 | 2008-04-23 09:12:53 | Belita Chevy | NULL | NULL | | 6 | 2008-04-23 14:09:50 | Kenny Lavitz | NULL | NULL | | 7 | 2008-04-24 08:13:52 | Phiz Lairston | NULL | NULL | | 8 | 2008-04-25 07:22:19 | Jean Paul Jones | NULL | NULL | | 9 | 2008-04-25 11:49:23 | Jacob Scorcherson | NULL | NULL | ++-+---+---+---+ This was the query I was using: $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars (date, name, score, screenshot) VALUES (NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); It seems to be inserting a default value of 0 since the id is not being specified and that's when I realized that I had failed to auto_increment the id column. D'oh! So once I did that everything worked like a charm. @Ken First -- NEVER post code with your database username/password. Since you did, change your db password immediately. Well actually I did not. Did you really think 'secretsauce' was my password? :) But I guess you're right in that this may be a little ambiguous when seeking advice in lists so from now on I will take your advice on making login information unambiguously fake in the form of user='' and password='xxx'. @Stuart But take note of what everyone else is saying. You should be getting the error message when this happens which will tell you exactly what the problem is, above and beyond Cannot insert query (which, btw, makes no sense at all :)). Ok well I'm using an 'insert' query so I'm not sure why you say that this makes no sense at all. :)) If you don't mind giving this n00b advice what would be a better/more accurate error message? They take away from this for me was.. don't skimp on the error messages! The one I got was so clear that fixing the problem was easy at that point. But thanks again guys.. this list has been an indispensable source source of wisdom on my journey in learning PHP. Tim Thanks again guys, Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
Re: [PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
On 10/1/2012 12:20 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hey thanks guys adding debugging info worked. Actually it was mysqli_error() providing me with a specific error of where the problem was. Cannot insert query:Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY' This is the data in the table mysql select * from guitarwars; ++-+---+---+---+ | id | date| name | score | screenshot| ++-+---+---+---+ | 0 | 2012-10-01 11:55:45 | Tommy Tutone | 2442 | bg_titlestrip.jpg | | 1 | 2012-10-01 08:34:18 | Dunphy| 2 | proof.jpg | | 2 | 2012-10-01 00:25:53 | ray davies| NULL | 2241 | | 3 | 2008-04-22 14:37:34 | Paco Jastorius| NULL | NULL | | 4 | 2008-04-22 21:27:54 | Nevil Johansson | NULL | NULL | | 5 | 2008-04-23 09:12:53 | Belita Chevy | NULL | NULL | | 6 | 2008-04-23 14:09:50 | Kenny Lavitz | NULL | NULL | | 7 | 2008-04-24 08:13:52 | Phiz Lairston | NULL | NULL | | 8 | 2008-04-25 07:22:19 | Jean Paul Jones | NULL | NULL | | 9 | 2008-04-25 11:49:23 | Jacob Scorcherson | NULL | NULL | ++-+---+---+---+ This was the query I was using: $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars (date, name, score, screenshot) VALUES (NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); It seems to be inserting a default value of 0 since the id is not being specified and that's when I realized that I had failed to auto_increment the id column. D'oh! So once I did that everything worked like a charm. @Ken First -- NEVER post code with your database username/password. Since you did, change your db password immediately. Well actually I did not. Did you really think 'secretsauce' was my password? :) But I guess you're right in that this may be a little ambiguous when seeking advice in lists so from now on I will take your advice on making login information unambiguously fake in the form of user='' and password='xxx'. @Stuart But take note of what everyone else is saying. You should be getting the error message when this happens which will tell you exactly what the problem is, above and beyond Cannot insert query (which, btw, makes no sense at all :)). Ok well I'm using an 'insert' query so I'm not sure why you say that this makes no sense at all. :)) If you don't mind giving this n00b advice what would be a better/more accurate error message? They take away from this for me was.. don't skimp on the error messages! The one I got was so clear that fixing the problem was easy at that point. But thanks again guys.. this list has been an indispensable source source of wisdom on my journey in learning PHP. Tim Thanks again guys, Tim I think the comment about your cannot insert query was because it really did not make sense. Once truly cannot insert a query. Since you ask tho, a more approp message might be Insert query failed to execute.brError returned was . mysqli_error() . brQuery was $q As for your index issue - you are using an autoincrement(?) field as the primary key. Is this related to another record in your db? If not, why even have the primary key? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Basic Statistics
Can anyone recommend a basic php stat package, easy to install and use. Just basic stuff like mean, median, range std dev etc thanks george
Re: [PHP] Re: php can't insert data mysql table
I think the comment about your cannot insert query was because it really did not make sense. Once truly cannot insert a query. Since you ask tho, a more approp message might be Insert query failed to execute.brError returned was . mysqli_error() . brQuery was $q As for your index issue - you are using an autoincrement(?) field as the primary key. Is this related to another record in your db? If not, why even have the primary key? Hey! I really like your error message. Borrowing it! :) Yes I am now using auto_increment, and that's what seemed to solve my issue. Looks like a simple omission in forgetting to use auto_increment and using primary key. I usually know better. I'll blame this one on the clonopin. lol thank you tim On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.comwrote: On 10/1/2012 12:20 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hey thanks guys adding debugging info worked. Actually it was mysqli_error() providing me with a specific error of where the problem was. Cannot insert query:Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY' This is the data in the table mysql select * from guitarwars; ++-+--**-+---+** ---+ | id | date| name | score | screenshot | ++-+--**-+---+** ---+ | 0 | 2012-10-01 11:55:45 | Tommy Tutone | 2442 | bg_titlestrip.jpg | | 1 | 2012-10-01 08:34:18 | Dunphy| 2 | proof.jpg | | 2 | 2012-10-01 00:25:53 | ray davies| NULL | 2241 | | 3 | 2008-04-22 14:37:34 | Paco Jastorius| NULL | NULL | | 4 | 2008-04-22 21:27:54 | Nevil Johansson | NULL | NULL | | 5 | 2008-04-23 09:12:53 | Belita Chevy | NULL | NULL | | 6 | 2008-04-23 14:09:50 | Kenny Lavitz | NULL | NULL | | 7 | 2008-04-24 08:13:52 | Phiz Lairston | NULL | NULL | | 8 | 2008-04-25 07:22:19 | Jean Paul Jones | NULL | NULL | | 9 | 2008-04-25 11:49:23 | Jacob Scorcherson | NULL | NULL | ++-+--**-+---+** ---+ This was the query I was using: $query = INSERT INTO guitarwars (date, name, score, screenshot) VALUES (NOW(), '$name', '$score', '$screenshot'); It seems to be inserting a default value of 0 since the id is not being specified and that's when I realized that I had failed to auto_increment the id column. D'oh! So once I did that everything worked like a charm. @Ken First -- NEVER post code with your database username/password. Since you did, change your db password immediately. Well actually I did not. Did you really think 'secretsauce' was my password? :) But I guess you're right in that this may be a little ambiguous when seeking advice in lists so from now on I will take your advice on making login information unambiguously fake in the form of user='' and password='xxx'. @Stuart But take note of what everyone else is saying. You should be getting the error message when this happens which will tell you exactly what the problem is, above and beyond Cannot insert query (which, btw, makes no sense at all :)). Ok well I'm using an 'insert' query so I'm not sure why you say that this makes no sense at all. :)) If you don't mind giving this n00b advice what would be a better/more accurate error message? They take away from this for me was.. don't skimp on the error messages! The one I got was so clear that fixing the problem was easy at that point. But thanks again guys.. this list has been an indispensable source source of wisdom on my journey in learning PHP. Tim Thanks again guys, Tim I think the comment about your cannot insert query was because it really did not make sense. Once truly cannot insert a query. Since you ask tho, a more approp message might be Insert query failed to execute.brError returned was . mysqli_error() . brQuery was $q As for your index issue - you are using an autoincrement(?) field as the primary key. Is this related to another record in your db? If not, why even have the primary key? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
Re: [PHP] Basic Statistics
Hi, Something like http://php.net/ref.stats ? Regards, Sebastian Am 01.10.2012 18:37, schrieb George R Smith: Can anyone recommend a basic php stat package, easy to install and use. Just basic stuff like mean, median, range std dev etc thanks george -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Good tutorial for compiling last PHP with Apache support from source
Hello fellows, Does any one know a good guide for noobs to compile last PHP with Apache support from source code? I was planning to use Ubuntu 11.10. Already googled it but could only find old references that cannot be used anymore. Thanks. -- Att, Alan Hoffmeister -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php