Naw do your parsing in PHP......try to lessen the load on the DB server any way you can...
ed At 09:11 AM 5/30/2002 +0800, Beau Lebens wrote: >A cleaner option might be to do this before you get it to PHP at all, via >your SQL query. > >Check out the string functions available, there are a number of >substring-style things available, string position etc. > >HTH > >Beau > >// -----Original Message----- >// From: Ed Gorski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >// Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 12:09 AM >// To: Jen Swofford; php-db@lists. php. net >// Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] dropping one word from column entries >// >// >// use: >// >// $name="Mouse Housing Products"; >// $name=str_replace("Products","",$name); >// >// also the RTFM() function works too >// >// ed >// >// At 11:06 AM 5/29/2002 -0500, Jen Swofford wrote: >// >I'm having a problem with this and suppose I'm looking for >// a handout. :| >// > >// >I am displaying names of product categories. The names of >// the categories >// >are: >// > >// >Bird Cages >// >Cat Toys >// >Chinchilla Housing Products >// >Dog Leashes >// >Ferret Housing Products >// >Mouse Housing Products >// > >// >What I want to do when displaying the names is to drop >// "Products" whenever >// >it appears. What I want do display on the page instead is: >// > >// >Bird Cages >// >Cat Toys >// >Chinchilla Housing >// >Dog Leashes >// >Ferret Housing >// >Mouse Housing >// > >// >And no, changing the names of the categories in the >// database is not an >// >option. :) I'm completely missing the boat on this one... >// any help? >// > >// >Jen Swofford >// >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >// > >// > >// > >// > >// >-- >// >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >// >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >// >// >// -- >// PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >// To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >// -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
