DELETE does not work?

2001-11-25 Thread Gil G.
Hello, If someone could give me a pointer on this issue: I have a table called codes with only one field left. When trying this in PHP: $result=mysql_query(DELETE FROM codes WHERE left='$temp'); I get a syntax error... This must be some stupid mistake... But I am stuck... Thanks,

RE: DELETE does not work? Fixed!

2001-11-25 Thread Gil G.
On 26 Nov 2001 at 0:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't left a reserved word? As in left join? But then, create shouldn't have worked either... Hello, Thanks a lot, that worked! I changed the name of the field, bingo! Sincerely, Gil. PS: for spam filter: database --

How to decrement int field?

2001-11-13 Thread Gil G.
Hello, I would really appreciate some help on this, thanks! I have a colomn with days_left, an integer. I have to write a Perl script to run on a cron job once a day and decrement all the fields in that column by 1. Is there a query to do this? Sincerely, Gil. -- http://planenews.com PGP

Truncated data on spaces..?

2001-11-01 Thread Gil G.
Hello, Does the data stored in a VARCHAR field get truncated on spaces? All my fields contain the data up to the first space... What should I use ? Thanks a lot, sincerely, Gil. [ PHP 4.01, MySQL 3.23, FreeBSD 4.2 ] -- PGP public key at: keskydee.com/gil.asc ICQ: 3310801

Java applet connection to MySQL?

2001-10-19 Thread Gil G.
Hello, I have in mind a site that would require a Java applet to load information from a MySQL database... The applet would pull fields from a row randomly selected each time is is loaded onto a web page on a client computer. Fields would include some text and one picture. Of course, login

Grants question..

2001-09-04 Thread Gil G.
Hello, I recently started using MySQL on FreeBSD. Everything works great, except that I can't access a database created by root as another user. When I grant privileges, from the command line or phpmyadmin, things seem to work fine (no error message), but access is still denied. I did restart