Adam
Thanks for your reply, but I think I am totally confused. Not so much by
your answer (although I admit I did not get it to work yet), but by the
entire multiple table issue. Several books I use talk about the importance
of using multiple tables, yet are thin on the insert issue. Searching the
web I have read several answers saying you simply cant insert into multiple
tables at once.
So if multiple tables is such an important issue, why is there no insert
solution. What am I missing?
Gary
"Adam Richardson" <simples...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Gary <gwp...@ptd.net> wrote:
I am experimenting with multiple tables, it is only a test that is my
local
machine only. This is the current code, which does not work , I have
tried
to concatonate the insert statements. I have tried multiple $query
variables, but it is just overwriting itself (only the last one gets
inserted). I also tried writing the $query as an array, which got me an
error message (saying it was expecting a string and I offered an array).
Someone point me in the right direction?
I'm not aware of any multi-table insert syntax:
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/171921
You'd have to perform 4 separate mysql_query() calls to accomplish what
you're looking for (one for each insert.)
That said, I'd recommend using a transaction so you make sure all of the
inserts succeed or fail together (it would cause issues down the road if
one
table insert worked and another failed.) Additionally, I'd recommend
using
prepared statements to avoid SQL injection (I'd mention validation your
POST
data, too ;)
See the tutorial below:
http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-PHP-PDO.html
Adam
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