Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie Question $2

2014-06-18 Thread Michael Stowe
Can we kill this thread?  Or can you guys continue the conversation between
yourselves.  We now have 8 emails pertaining to the technical question, and
8 emails ranting about him asking it.

I understand that some people do not believe this is the appropriate forum
for that question - but personal attacks and rantings accomplish nothing
other than to provide bully tactics and express your outrage at list
spamming while spamming the list.

Thank you for your consideration.

- Mike


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com
wrote:

 On 6/18/2014 2:16 PM, Aziz Saleh wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com
 wrote:



 Sent from losPhone

  On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com

 wrote:


  On 6/18/2014 12:31 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

 On 06/17/2014 12:02 PM, onatawah...@yahoo.ca wrote:
 Hi Ethan,

 Here are some things to clean up your code:

 Your line:

 $phn = $_POST[phone];

 should use quotations as follows:

 $phn = $_POST['phone'];

 Your line:

 $sql1 ='select Lname, Fname from Customers where Phone = $Phn ';

 Should use double quotes if you need the variable to be interpreted:

 $sql1 =select Lname, Fname from Customers where Phone = $Phn ;

 Lastly, as people have mentioned PDO is probably the best way to go.
 Try connecting to your database with PDO. Look on Google for PDO
 prepared statements and use those instead of the mysql escape string
 method.

 Hope this helps,

 -Kevin

 Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

 IT WORKS!!!

 Here is the code -

 !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
 html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;

 html
 ?php
$bla = 1;
 ?
  head
  /head
  body
  div align=center
  form method=post
  input type='text' name=phone/input
  input type='submit'
  br /br /br /
  /form
  /div
 ?php
  error_reporting(-1);
  require '/home/ethan/PHP/ethan.inc';
  $db = Store;
  $cxn = mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password,$db);

  $phn = $_POST[phone];
  $phn = (string)$phn;
  $dsh = '-';
  $Phn =

  $phn[0].$phn[1].$phn[2].$dsh.$phn[3].$phn[4].$phn[5].$dsh.$
 phn[6].$phn[7].$phn[8].$phn[9];


  $sql1 =select Lname, Fname from Customers where Phone =
 '$Phn' ;
  $result1 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql1);
  if(!$result)
  {
 ?
  div align=center

  strongNo Match Found/strong
  br /br /
  /div
 ?php
  }

 ?
  div align=center
  table border=4 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=55
 rules=all frame=box
  tr class='heading'
  thLast Name/th
  thFirst Name/th
 ?php

  while($row1 = mysqli_fetch_row($result1))
  {

  $Lname = $row1[0];
  $Fname = $row1[1];



 ?  tr
  td ?php echo $Lname; ? /td
  td ?php echo $Fname; ? /td
  /tr
 ?php
}
 ?
/table
  /div
  /body
 /html

 As you [those that replied] accurately noted, the problem was with the
 quoting.

 I appreciate all your comments, take them seriously and will use the
 information contained in them for future programming.

 No matter how much skill in programming I have, I will remain a NEWBIE;
 ie, someone who wishes to grrow in knowledge and acknowledges that
 there
 are many programmers much more skilled than I.

 Thanks again.

 Ethan

 happy to hear you got it working.  Sad to see that you didn't heed the

 tips provided to you and alter your code, and that you still have errors
 in
 it.  oh, well



 Wow. Just wow. I though when I signed up on this list that if I did what
 Ethan did I would be shunned from the list. But I guess I was wrong. You
 can be an ask hole on here and people will still try and help. Kudos to
 the
 good souls who try.

 Karl
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  There are lots of people who have free time on their hands to teach the
 basics, which I think is a good thing. Personally, if someone doesn't care
 enough to read the manual or attempt to understand the basics, I wouldn't
 spend too much time on their problems.

  And despite Ethan's continual ignorance of the manual and the basic
 principles espoused by those taking the time to respond to him we still do
 it.  Aren't we all amazing?


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Re: [PHP-DB] Subject Matter

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Stowe
*There are a lot of off topic emails sent. But there is far more whining
and
**complaining. Good grief!

+1*

Let's remember that not everyone on the list is an expert programmer or
someone with years of DBA experience.  The purpose of the list (IMHO) is to
HELP others with their PHP/DB questions, or at least point them in the
right direction so that they can continue to learn and grow.  This is one
thing I have commended the PHP community for, their willingness to INCLUDE
people and be patient with newbies.  Sure there are going to be off-topic
conversations, questions that get proposed to the wrong list, etc - heck
I'm guilty of it myself.

But quite frankly (haven't had my coffee, be warned), if you're going to
complain that not every message on the list meets your specific standards,
then you're in the wrong place.  Add some filters to your mailbox, or
better yet, jump in and help out instead of complaining that your needs
aren't being met.

Just my two cents...

- Mike

ps - if you look on php.net it clearly says this list is NOT moderated...


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Rudy thomasbr...@gmail.com wrote:

 There are a lot of off topic emails sent. But there is far more whining and
 complaining. Good grief!


 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Tamara Temple tamouse.li...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 
  On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com
  wrote:
 
   On 8/23/2013 4:52 AM, Matt Pelmear wrote:
   On 08/23/2013 04:36 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
   Matt Pelmear wrote:
   I am not sure who runs the list, whether they care about off-topic
   posts,
   or whether anyone else cares about it.
  
   The php lists are only loosely moderated, but comments like yours
   usually bring things under control. I'd refer you to my recent post
   thought as to why the current threads are not that far off topic ;)
  
  
   Indeed, that thread is one that is on topic... but I think the
   signal-to-noise ratio on this list is rather poor ;)
   If I'm the only one bothered by it, it's no big deal for me to
   unsubscribe... I just thought I'd check the general opinion first.
   I don't run into these problems on the internals list... :-)
  
   -Matt
  
   Funny - I never knew this list was handling  off-topic posts that
  regularly.  I always thought this list was about using php to access
  database info and the problems incurred, such as Ethan's recent post
 about
  his bad query code.
  
   So - this is supposed to be about database integration?  I'll have to
  reconsider my subscription choice as well, just as soon as I look up
  whatever the heck that is.  :)
 
  This is the description on www.php.net/mailing-lists.php:
 
  Databases and PHP
  This list is for the discussion of PHP database topics
 
  Nothing more specific than that. I, personally, don't know of any PHP
  databases, so I'm going to assume it means the broader interpretation of
  using PHP with databases.
 
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] PDO user question

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Stowe
How are you using the number?  Probably the easiest way is to utilize 
PDOStatement::FetchAll() and then do a count() on that result set. 

- Mike



Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Stefan Wixfort stefan.wixf...@gmx.de wrote:

 Hi Jim
 
 I've had some success with querying using pdo and prepared statements as
 well.  One thing that I'm curious about is
 
 How does one handle the need to get the number of rows returned by a
 Select?  The documentation is very clear that PDO doesn't return that
 value for a Select statement (depending upon driver?) and there were a
 couple of solutions that made no sense to me.  There was even one that
 did a completely separate query just to get the row count which makes
 even less sense.
 
 I believe you are referring to SELECT COUNT(*)...
 Because I couldn't find a different way I use that.
 
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Re: [PHP-DB] Help with If else if

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Stowe
From looking at your code, the issue is that your if statements are
checking for the same criteria as your else statements, meaning that if the
string is empty () the if statements will be triggered, and since the if
statements are true, the elseif statement will not be.  Or if the string
isn't empty, neither the if or the elseif statements will be triggered,
causing the else statement to be activated.  Either way, the images would
be printed out. *
*
*
*
*Did you mean to do this?*

?php
if($search-plugin-ListViewValue() ==  
$search-facebook-ListViewValue() == ) {
// Neither one has a value
} elseif ($search-plugin-ListViewValue() !=  
$search-facebook-ListViewValue() != ) {
// Both have a Value
echo 'a href=' . $search-plugin-ListViewValue() . 'img
src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a' . 'a
href=' . $search-facebook-ListViewValue() . 'img
src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
} elseif ($search-plugin-ListViewValue() != ) {
// Twitter has a value
echo 'a href=' . $search-plugin-ListViewValue() . 'img
src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
} else {
// Facebook has a value (only possible option left)
echo 'a href=' . $search-facebook-ListViewValue() . 'img
src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
}
?



Hope that helps,
Mike



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Gu®u nagendra802...@gmail.com wrote:
  The issue is both the images are echoing and no if else statement is
  working.
 

 First of all, please bottom post on this (and probably any) mailing list.

 You should perhaps provide what the contents of
 $search-plugin-ListViewValue()== and
 $search-facebook-ListViewValue()== is.
 Though, if I understood you correctly, it would be as simple as:
 $facebookEnabled = $search-facebook-ListViewValue()!=;
 $twitterEnabled = $search-plugin-ListViewValue()!=;
 if($facebookEnabled)
  {

  echo 'a href='.$search-facebook-ListViewValue().'img
 src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 }
  if($twitterEnabled)
  {

 echo 'a href='.$search-plugin-ListViewValue().'img
 src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 }

 - Matijn

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Re: [PHP-DB] Help with If else if

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Stowe
Hmm, what happens with the code I sent you?  Just tested it on my end and
worked exactly as expected.

Try doing a
var_dump($search-plugin-ListViewValue(), $search-facebook-ListViewValue());
to make sure the data being returned is what's expected... you should be
getting string(0)  returned for both.

Thanks,
Mike



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Gu®u nagendra802...@gmail.com wrote:

 No Michael, your code is also not working. What you have understood is
 correct. let me explain it to others too.

 If variable twitter and facebook are empty don't echo anything,

 if variable twitter has a value and facebook is empty echo out only
 twitter,

 if variable twitter has no value and facebook has a value echo out
 facebook only,

 and finally if both has values echo out both.

 Basically I want to echo out only if there is some value in the database.
 But in my case both the images are echoing out.




 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Michael Stowe m...@mikestowe.com wrote:

 From looking at your code, the issue is that your if statements are
 checking for the same criteria as your else statements, meaning that if the
 string is empty () the if statements will be triggered, and since the if
 statements are true, the elseif statement will not be.  Or if the string
 isn't empty, neither the if or the elseif statements will be triggered,
 causing the else statement to be activated.  Either way, the images would
 be printed out. *
 *
 *
 *
 *Did you mean to do this?*

 ?php
 if($search-plugin-ListViewValue() ==  
 $search-facebook-ListViewValue() == ) {
 // Neither one has a value
 } elseif ($search-plugin-ListViewValue() !=  
 $search-facebook-ListViewValue() != ) {
 // Both have a Value
 echo 'a href=' . $search-plugin-ListViewValue() . 'img
 src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a' . 'a
 href=' . $search-facebook-ListViewValue() . 'img
 src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 } elseif ($search-plugin-ListViewValue() != ) {
 // Twitter has a value
 echo 'a href=' . $search-plugin-ListViewValue() . 'img
  src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 } else {
 // Facebook has a value (only possible option left)
 echo 'a href=' . $search-facebook-ListViewValue() . 'img
  src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 }
 ?



 Hope that helps,
 Mike



 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Matijn Woudt tijn...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Gu®u nagendra802...@gmail.com wrote:
  The issue is both the images are echoing and no if else statement is
  working.
 

 First of all, please bottom post on this (and probably any) mailing list.

 You should perhaps provide what the contents of
 $search-plugin-ListViewValue()== and
 $search-facebook-ListViewValue()== is.
 Though, if I understood you correctly, it would be as simple as:
 $facebookEnabled = $search-facebook-ListViewValue()!=;
 $twitterEnabled = $search-plugin-ListViewValue()!=;
 if($facebookEnabled)
  {

  echo 'a href='.$search-facebook-ListViewValue().'img
 src=images/facebook.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 }
  if($twitterEnabled)
  {

 echo 'a href='.$search-plugin-ListViewValue().'img
 src=images/twitter.gif width=22 height=23//a/a';
 }

 - Matijn

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