Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Cameron Just
One trick that one of my friends has taught me is to only use double quotes s where needed as they are parsed by PHP and instead use single quotes 's i.e. $fred['john'] = 10; is better than $fred[john] = 10; or echo 'This is some text' . \n; instead of echo This is some text\n; He told me

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Zoltán Németh
2007. 10. 3, szerda keltezéssel 16.07-kor Cameron Just ezt írta: One trick that one of my friends has taught me is to only use double quotes s where needed as they are parsed by PHP and instead use single quotes 's i.e. $fred['john'] = 10; is better than $fred[john] = 10; or echo

[PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread jd.pillion
I have a company table and a contacts table. In the contacts table, there is a field called companyID which is a link to a row in the company table. What is the easiest way to query the company table for all the company rows whose ID is NOT linked to in the contact table? Basically, the

Re: [PHP] manipulating CSV files

2007-10-03 Thread pere roca
hi Wolf and Jim, thanks for the answer! Very useful. Now It would be wondeful if I can pick up the values from a CSV file (coordinates) and apply a postGIS/postgreSQL function (Select ...) to this data and add the resulting values as a new filed in the CSV ! Is that possible? Thanks,

Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Zoltán Németh
2007. 10. 3, szerda keltezéssel 05.21-kor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ezt írta: I have a company table and a contacts table. In the contacts table, there is a field called companyID which is a link to a row in the company table. What is the easiest way to query the company table for all the

Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread TG
Actually you still want to use a join, just an OUTER join instead of an INNER one. With an OUTER join, you can get all the rows that match as well as rows where it doesn't match: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)#Left_outer_join In the example there, DepartmentID 36 is present in the

Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Satyam
- Original Message - From: Zoltán Németh [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's not very efficient, but I don't have any better idea. someone else? Indeed, that sort of query is one of the worst and there is little you can do to improve it save making sure you have an index on the field of the

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Per Jessen
Zoltán Németh wrote: and anyway, the microseconds you could win with this really don't count that much to be worth the effort... find real bottlenecks and optimize against those. And finally, if you're worried about microseconds, why are you using an interpreted language? /Per Jessen,

[PHP] RE: [PHP-DB] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Lasitha Alawatta
Hi J, Checkout this, SELECT * FROM tbl_company where id not in (SELECT companyID from tbl_contacts) Regards, Lasitha Alawatta Application Developer Destinations of the World Holding Establishment P O Box: 19950 Dubai, United Arab Emirates ( Ph +971 4 295 8510 (Board) / 1464 (Ext.) 7

Re: [PHP] manipulating CSV files

2007-10-03 Thread Wolf
Sure, just use the code I/we provided as the basis for what you need. When you get stuck, post your code and we'll be happy to look at it for you. Wolf pere roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Wolf and Jim, thanks for the answer! Very useful. Now It would be wondeful if I can pick

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
there is no way to create an abstract class in php4. in an abstract class definition subclasses are forced to implement those methods that have been declared abstract. or they are allowed to declare the method as abstract themselves and force their children to provide a concrete definition. the

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On 10/3/07, ashish.sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am working on PHP from quite some time. I am pretty much comfortable in writing PHP code but I always want that I should write good, quality code. For this I always look for the best practices which other developers uses and

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:52 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: one nice trick you can easily implement is to compress your code before pushing it to production. the php cli exposes a method for stripping out the whitespace and comments. php -w Do it right, use a compile cache like Eaccelerator or

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On 10/3/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:52 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: one nice trick you can easily implement is to compress your code before pushing it to production. the php cli exposes a method for stripping out the whitespace and comments.

Re: [PHP] Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:22 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On 10/3/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:52 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: one nice trick you can easily implement is to compress your code before pushing it to production. the php cli exposes

[PHP] Performing Multiple Prepared Queries

2007-10-03 Thread Nathaniel Hall
All, I am attempting to perform multiple prepared queries using mysqli. I want to pull information out of one table based on the information in another. I do not receive any errors and the rest of the page seems to load correctly. Below is my code: foreach ($uniqueids as $entryid) {

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Marston
Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] there is no way to create an abstract class in php4. Oh yes there is! I knw, because I have done it! The definition of an abstrract class is one that cannot be instantiated into an object. It can, however, be extended

Re: [PHP] How can i only fetch a (rss/atom) feed when it's changed?

2007-10-03 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Mark wrote: I'm currently fetching feeds about every hour (automatically in php) but sometimes there are no new updates in a feed for 2 hours. so no i wonder if it's possible to check the feed somehow to see if it changed since i last fetched it and if it's the case than

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
keeping data private is how encapsulation in facilitated. here is a really simple way to violate encapsulation in php4 class BreakMe { // private var $iWishIWasPrivate; } // later on $instance = new BreakMe(); $instance-iWishIWasPrivate = 'encapsulation violated'; if the member variable

Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread James Ausmus
On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a company table and a contacts table. In the contacts table, there is a field called companyID which is a link to a row in the company table. What is the easiest way to query the company table for all the company rows whose

[PHP] RE: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread jd.pillion
Hi J, Checkout this, SELECT * FROM tbl_company where id not in (SELECT companyID from tbl_contacts) Brilliant! This is exactly what I was looking for, and is quite logical/readable! Thanks to everyone for the ideas! J Regards, Lasitha Alawatta

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Marston
Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] keeping data private is how encapsulation in facilitated. Absolute rubbish. Encapsulation is the act of placing data and the operations that perform on that data in the same class. The data does not have to be private at

Re: [PHP] RE: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread James Ausmus
On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi J, Checkout this, SELECT * FROM tbl_company where id not in (SELECT companyID from tbl_contacts) Brilliant! This is exactly what I was looking for, and is quite logical/readable! Thanks to everyone for the ideas! J

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On 10/3/07, Tony Marston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encapsulation is NOT data hiding. I repeat, encapsulation has absolutely nothing to do with data hiding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding encapsulation is facilitated via ppp in object oriented programming languages. i

Re: [PHP] RE: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Gary Josack
I agree with this. Never use a subquery when a join will work. The optimizer with thank you with performance. James Ausmus wrote: On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi J, Checkout this, SELECT * FROM tbl_company where id not in (SELECT companyID from tbl_contacts)

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Marston
Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/3/07, Tony Marston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encapsulation is NOT data hiding. I repeat, encapsulation has absolutely nothing to do with data hiding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On 10/3/07, Tony Marston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encapsulation is NOT data hiding. Take a look at please stop putting words into my mouth. i never once said encapsulation is data hiding. I stated PublicPrivateProctected facilitates encapsulation. tonight when i get home ill post a snippet

[PHP] Re: Optimized PHP

2007-10-03 Thread Al
Advanced PHP Programming, Geo. Schlossnagle Discusses large-scale, optimized websites in great detail ashish.sharma wrote: Hello All, I am working on PHP from quite some time. I am pretty much comfortable in writing PHP code but I always want that I should write good, quality code. For this I

Re: [PHP] Performing Multiple Prepared Queries

2007-10-03 Thread Carlton Whitehead
Hi Nathaniel, When your query starts its second loop, the resultset from the first one is still defined as the resultset in your prepared statement object. Before you can get another resultset, you need to clear the first one using the mysqli_stmt_free_result function. It would probably be

Re: [PHP] Beginner Tutorials for using CLASSES in PHP4

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Marston
Nathan Nobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/3/07, Tony Marston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Encapsulation is NOT data hiding. Take a look at please stop putting words into my mouth. i never once said encapsulation is data hiding. I stated

[PHP] Re: Secure Image Storage

2007-10-03 Thread Jas
Well if you have the GD libs installed you could do something with imagecreatefromjpeg() and just send a header with the following before the page is displayed. header(Content-Type: image/jpeg); Kevin Murphy wrote: Hello all, Following up with my success last week with putting downloadable

[PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Marquez
Greetings, I am attempting to alternate the colors of the container DIV. Anyone know how to do this? ?php $study_title = stripslashes($study_title); $study_title = nl2br($study_title); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { extract ( $row );

Re: [PHP] How can i only fetch a (rss/atom) feed when it's changed?

2007-10-03 Thread mike
On 10/3/07, Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat fsockopen.php #!/usr/bin/env php ?php $fp = fsockopen( 'destiney.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30 ); if( !$fp ) { echo $errstr ($errno)\n; } else { $out = GET /rss HTTP/1.1\r\n; $out .= Host: destiney.com\r\n; $out .=

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread mike
On 10/3/07, Steve Marquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am attempting to alternate the colors of the container DIV. Anyone know how to do this? you could always use javascript we've used something like this with success: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/background-colors-javascript

Re: [PHP] Performing Multiple Prepared Queries

2007-10-03 Thread Nathaniel Hall
Carlton Whitehead wrote: Hi Nathaniel, When your query starts its second loop, the resultset from the first one is still defined as the resultset in your prepared statement object. Before you can get another resultset, you need to clear the first one using the mysqli_stmt_free_result

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Jon Anderson
Steve Marquez wrote: I am attempting to alternate the colors of the container DIV. Anyone know how to do this? I've used variants of this: ?php while ($condition): ? div style=background-color: #?= ($i++%2) ? 'ff' : 'ee' ?; ?php endwhile ? jon -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
thats the key use mod 2 and check if the result is 1 or 0. -nathan On 10/3/07, Jon Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Marquez wrote: I am attempting to alternate the colors of the container DIV. Anyone know how to do this? I've used variants of this: ?php while ($condition): ?

Re: [PHP] the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Marques
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a company table and a contacts table. In the contacts table, there is a field called companyID which is a link to a row in the company table. What is the easiest way to query the company table for all the company rows whose ID is NOT linked to in the contact

RE: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
Add this to your default.css file... Or to the page... style TR.dataRow1 { background-color: #e8f5f7; } /* light */ TR.dataRow2 { background-color: #dce8ea; } /* dark */ /style Then just do this: TR class=?php echo ($r = !$r) ? dataRow1 : dataRow2; ? Forget all that $i++ and (mod) % stuff...

[PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
Martin Marques wrote: SELECT * FROM company WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT companyID FROM contacts); Not ideal as has been mentioned else where in this thread. Col -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread Dan
I need to retrieve a huge amount of data form a database and do so many times. To eliminate the overhead of connecting to the database and pulling down all that info over and over, I'm trying to pull it down only once and stick it into a session. The problem is I get the first few results and

Re: [PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread Per Jessen
Dan wrote: I need to retrieve a huge amount of data form a database and do so many times. To eliminate the overhead of connecting to the database and pulling down all that info over and over, I'm trying to pull it down only once and stick it into a session. The problem is I get the first

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Lucas
Colin Guthrie wrote: Martin Marques wrote: SELECT * FROM company WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT companyID FROM contacts); Not ideal as has been mentioned else where in this thread. Col I think one would have to take into account the DB type being used here. I can have MySQL and PostgreSQL setup

Re: [PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread Dan
After thinking about this a while I also thought of making my own cache. The problem with that is would it be any faster or have any less strain on the server than having multiple requests/connections to the database? - Dan Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread Gary Josack
Does the data change often? If not you could just enable query cache and cache connection threads and you'd probably be fine. Dan wrote: After thinking about this a while I also thought of making my own cache. The problem with that is would it be any faster or have any less strain on the

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Lucas
Steve Marquez wrote: Greetings, I am attempting to alternate the colors of the container DIV. Anyone know how to do this? Thank you very much, -- Steve M. ?php $rowColors = array('#EE', '#DD'); $study_title = nl2br(stripslashes($study_title)); $counter = 0; if ( $result ) {

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread TG
As you can see, a bunch of different ways to skin this particular cat. For fun, I wanted to show you something I came up with early in my PHP career. It's kinda dumb and some of the other ways shown are easier to understand right off the bat, but here is an alternate way to do it. My initial

Re: [PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread Dan
The data doesn't change often but the querys do. Thats why I was origionally thinking of just storing the entire result in a session and just use the part of the session I needed. So caching wouldn't really work. That was something intresting though that I didn't know earlier thanks! - Dan

Re: [PHP] Sessions running out of storage space - Increase memory?

2007-10-03 Thread John A DAVIS
stick in in an array in a session "Dan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/3/2007 2:21 PM I need to retrieve a huge amount of data form a database and do so many times. To eliminate the overhead of connecting to the database and pulling down all that info over and over, I'm trying to pull it down only

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a year or so. But one problem that I have always ran into with MySQL is that when JOIN'ing tables that have large data sets is a PITA.

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Robert Cummings wrote: I'd use the left join whenever available. Similarly, I design for the left join whenever possible. -- Greg Donald Cyberfusion Consulting http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a year or so. But one problem that I have always ran into with MySQL is that when JOIN'ing tables that have large data

[PHP] OT IDEs

2007-10-03 Thread Bastien Koert
I just found a tool called CodeLobster, but the site seems a little funky, mostly because the owners first language is not English...is anyone using this tool and is it any good? Thanks bastien _ Be seen when you can't be

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings
In the following example I show a simple OOP example (because I felt like it) and illustrate why using CSS classes is the most powerful way to do row style cycling. Hopefully you're using a decent browser (almost anything other than IE -- I recommend Opera :) but if not then IE7 will suffice to

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:23 +1000, Chris wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a year or so. But one problem that I have always ran into with

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Robert Cummings wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:23 +1000, Chris wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a year or so. But one problem that I have always

Re: [PHP] Alternate Colors in Rows

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On 10/3/07, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully you're using a decent browser (almost anything other than IE -- I recommend Opera :) opera is the best for straight browsing. ive found i could have 40 to 50 tabs open with no noticeable perforrmace hit. firefox bogs badly after

[PHP] inserting ´ in a db

2007-10-03 Thread Yamil Ortega
Hi list, good day. I have a simple script that inserts text on a mysql table, that has a field named description and the type is text. Everting works fine, except when I try to insert a text that includes a simple quote. For example Yamil´s car I send the character string to a

[PHP] Mime Magic functions - how standard are they?

2007-10-03 Thread Dave M G
PHP List, I would like to set up a function within my system that can test a file that a user has uploaded and determine what kind of file it is. My intention is to only handle a fairly small number of common file types*, so I don't think I need to build anything too robust. Of course, I

RE: [PHP] inserting ´ in a db

2007-10-03 Thread Bastien Koert
There are any number of elements to try htmlspecialchars mysql_real_escape_string addslashes RTFM and see what works best for your situation bastien From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:44:34 +0900 Subject: [PHP] inserting ´ in a db Hi list,

[PHP] Any known security issues with IMAP?

2007-10-03 Thread Don O'Neil
Are there any known security issues/concerns with compiling PHP with imap/pop3 support? Such as hijacking php pages and relaying spam, etc...? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] inserting ´ in a db

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Yamil Ortega wrote: Hi list, good day. I have a simple script that inserts text on a mysql table, that has a field named description and the type is text. Everting works fine, except when I try to insert a text that includes a simple quote. For example Yamil´s car

Re: [PHP] Mime Magic functions - how standard are they?

2007-10-03 Thread mike
On 10/3/07, Dave M G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, ultimately, what I'm wondering is, what should I be using in order to determine file MIME types that will be the most commonly installed on servers with PHP? I wrote something that does system(file -iNr $file) which gives you the

[PHP] Any known security issues with IMAP?

2007-10-03 Thread Don O'Neil
Are there any known security issues/concerns with compiling PHP with imap/pop3 support? Such as hijacking php pages and relaying spam, etc...? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Any known security issues with IMAP?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Don O'Neil wrote: Are there any known security issues/concerns with compiling PHP with imap/pop3 support? Such as hijacking php pages and relaying spam, etc...? [ was posting this again a mistake or just impatience? ] I'm not sure how opening an email inbox can hijack pages but maybe someone

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Lucas
Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:49 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: This is only from my own personal testing. Mind you that I have only been using PostgreSQL for a year or so. But one problem that I have always ran into with MySQL is that when JOIN'ing tables that have large data

Re: [PHP] inserting ´ in a db

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Swiss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) writes: Everting works fine, except when I try to insert a text that includes a simple quote. http://www.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string I'll see you that and raise you PEAR's database interfaces: http://pear.php.net/package/DB - especially

Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Aleksandar Vojnovic
I would also suggest to limit yourself to things you actually need not to select the whole table. Aleksandar Jim Lucas wrote: Colin Guthrie wrote: Martin Marques wrote: SELECT * FROM company WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT companyID FROM contacts); Not ideal as has been mentioned else where in

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Aleksandar Vojnovic wrote: I would also suggest to limit yourself to things you actually need not to select the whole table. In this case you can't because you're looking for records that exist in one table that don't exist in another. Apart from looking at the whole table in each case how

Re: [PHP] inserting ´ in a db

2007-10-03 Thread Larry Garfield
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Tom Swiss wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) writes: Everting works fine, except when I try to insert a text that includes a simple quote. http://www.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string I'll see you that and raise you PEAR's database interfaces:

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Aleksandar Vojnovic
It seems you missed my point :) if you would need all the data then select them all, but if you need only partial data from the table then you could limit yourself to that specific columns. I doubt everybody need everything all the time. True? Aleksandar Chris wrote: Aleksandar Vojnovic

[PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Re: the opposite of a join?

2007-10-03 Thread Chris
Aleksandar Vojnovic wrote: It seems you missed my point :) if you would need all the data then select them all, but if you need only partial data from the table then you could limit yourself to that specific columns. I doubt everybody need everything all the time. True? Ahh - you meant the

[PHP] Re: The Context of 0

2007-10-03 Thread Tom Swiss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Blanchard) writes: In certain cases 0 is the equivalent of FALSE and in other cases a 0 is just a 0... Exercise care when using 0 to determine if something is FALSE and understand that 0 has context. I think context and equivalence are not completely accurate way