Hi all, In trying to learn PHP (and MySQL), I am attempting to replicate a database-web solution built previously using Filemaker Pro and Lasso (on NT). I am currently working with PHP/MySQL on NT and will be moving this to Linux before the end of January.
Filemaker is able to perform calculations internally and therefore I guess I will need to write functions to mimic this externally. Am I right here? One of the features of the FMPro solution is that when a user is looking at a list of resources (in fact, university course packs) each row will display the number of associated records from the 'books' database. Now which is the best method to do this (speed/efficiency)? I have tried performing a row-level query on the related db but its very slow and times out before the second row can be displayed. Alternately, I could set the main db to increase/decrease a number field when adding or deleting books from the list. Which is recommended? Dates I played around with my learning site over the holidays and found that I was not able to easily handle dates between the format required by users (dd/mm/yyyy) and that used by MySQL (yyyy-mm-dd) and therefore I wrote functions to parse the data both ways. All the example I could find on Dates used 'today' as the example. I want to be able to play around with stored dates. Is my function method the correct way or is there another way? MTIA George in Edinburgh --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 11/12/01 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
