RE: [PHP-DB] Re: UPDATE command

2005-06-20 Thread jusa_98
The trick is your using the wrong ' instead you need ` ... go away from kl;-' and go to `-123 ;) The key above the (Tab) key, or the key next to the number 1 above the q. so ... $query=SELECT * FROM bibleverses WHERE `used` = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; When I first learned this also I

RE: [PHP-DB] Re: UPDATE command

2005-06-20 Thread bastien_k
used is a column name, if you need to surround it use the back ticks (beow the esc key, same button as the tilde (~). That is why it fails...it shouldn't be req'd for the update, though the value may need to be quoted depending on the col data type Bastien From: Ron Piggott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP-DB] Re: UPDATE command

2005-06-20 Thread ron . php
This is kind of interesting ... $query=SELECT * FROM quiettimequotation WHERE used = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; works; $query=SELECT * FROM bibleverses WHERE 'used' = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; doesn't! Having the ' around used makes that select command fail --- but the UPDATE command

[PHP-DB] multiple queries in the same request

2005-06-20 Thread Gabriel B.
I have a table with some relational values, that really saves me on selects, but gives me a weird error in the insert... in the DB i have this 2 tables data and categories: data( id int category tinyint ), categories ( id tinyint description varchar ) for selects i can use a single query with a

Re: [PHP-DB] multiple queries in the same request

2005-06-20 Thread Bruno Ferreira
Gabriel B. wrote: SELECT (@category_id:=id) FROM categories WHERE description = cat1; REPLACE INTO data VALUES( 10, @category_id); i send this as a single query in PHP and it returns an error quoting everything after the first ; anyidea if i can't send several queries at once? any workaround?

[PHP-DB] Mail System Error - Returned Mail

2005-06-20 Thread Returned mail
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Re: [PHP-DB] multiple queries in the same request

2005-06-20 Thread Bruno Ferreira
Gabriel B. wrote: You can't send multiple queries in an SQL statement. You can just split that in two separates queries. It's not really slower by any I'm not really concerned about performance. i'm *really* concerned about race conditions. I have more than 3mi hits per day. the

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: UPDATE command

2005-06-20 Thread -{ Rene Brehmer }-
Documented research indicate that on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:47:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trick is your using the wrong ' instead you need ` ... go away from kl;-' and go to `-123 ;) The key above the (Tab) key, or the key next to the number 1 above the q. I hope you realise

[PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script

2005-06-20 Thread tramelw
Hello, I have a site that allows reporters to enter their articles into a forum. I am then spilling their articles onto the main page from a MySQL dbase via a php script, read LATEST ARTICLES. I am now entering the data myself after they email it to me, however this is becoming more of a

RE: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script

2005-06-20 Thread Bastien Koert
post your code and db structure, it might be simpler to use an auto increment value and let the db do the work in assigning the next number... bastien From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005

Re: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script

2005-06-20 Thread Micah Stevens
Use an autonumber field in MySQL. It will increment automatically every time you insert a record, and not repeat numbers. No extra PHP code needed. After the insert query, you can then issue a mysql_insert_id() function that will return the autonumber field for the last insert, that way you

Re: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script. .

2005-06-20 Thread Patel, Aman
I'd recommend you use what mysql provides for this. Auto_increment flag. Here's more information on how to make your id column be an auto_increment primary key. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/example-auto-increment.html - Aman Patel, Sys Admin / Database / Web Devloper, International

Re: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script. .

2005-06-20 Thread tramelw
Thanks Aman and guy from 'listmail.innovate.net'... I will change my primarykey ID colum to auto_increment. I am off to try your suggestions. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Patel, Aman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Mon, 20 Jun 2005

Re: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script

2005-06-20 Thread tramelw
Thanks Bastien, I am off to try the auto increment. I will post back if I cannot get it to work properly. Again, thanks everyone. -Original Message- From: Bastien Koert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:30:13 -0400 Subject: RE:

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: UPDATE command

2005-06-20 Thread Dwight Altman
This is kind of interesting ... $query=SELECT * FROM quiettimequotation WHERE used = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; works; $query=SELECT * FROM bibleverses WHERE 'used' = 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; doesn't! Having the ' around used makes that select command fail --- but the UPDATE command

Re: [PHP-DB] auto-generating next id (in order) for an add script

2005-06-20 Thread Miles Thompson
Depending on your version of MySQL, table type should be MyISAM so that numbers for deleted articles do not get reused. Miles Thompson At 02:33 PM 6/20/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bastien, I am off to try the auto increment. I will post back if I cannot get it to work properly.

[PHP-DB] Threading theory help needed

2005-06-20 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there everyone, I've written a simple forum in PHP for my website (It's an artistic Jean-Michel Jarre website called Planet Oxygene where I experiment with all things tech) but I want to add threading to my messages but I'm not sure of the theory for such a thing. For example, I know I

Re: [PHP-DB] Threading theory help needed

2005-06-20 Thread Micah Stevens
On Monday 20 June 2005 04:54 pm, Chris Payne wrote: For example, I know I need ID, messageid, forumid and messagerootid (Just example names) but I'm not sure of the theory of how replies to replies etc ... would work in PHP with MySQL? I guess I'm just confused on the whole threading business