Re: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name

2002-01-18 Thread Keith Webb
Many thanks for your response , I will work on the design decision first and maybe store this code for later! Keith "Rick Emery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Other than what sounds like a bad design decision, you can: > > $query = "ALTER TA

Re: [PHP-DB] Alter Table / ADD col_name

2002-01-18 Thread Keith Webb
Many thanks. regards keith "Miles Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Keith, > > You're building it upside down! If your design relies on adding columns to > store data you will quickly run out of columns. > > More typically when you subm

Re: [PHP-DB] OCI8

2002-01-18 Thread Thies C. Arntzen
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:20:47PM -0700, Randall Barber wrote: > I've been using the OCI8 extension and have a question about the Persistent >Connections. > > While debugging the site, I will run into the following error (paraphrased): > > BeginSession: too many processes running > > etc... >

[PHP-DB] 1 query or 2 queries

2002-01-18 Thread George Pitcher
I have a page that displays a book and some of its chapters (not all chapters are recorded) and I want to do a layout like this: ISN: 012345678X Book Title: A Christmas Carol Book Author: Dickens, C. Publisher:Victorian Press Year: 1934 Dickens, C Ch

Re: [PHP-DB] 1 query or 2 queries

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Farmer
Yes, Do a join on the two tables and only pull the book data from the first record. -- Jon Farmer Systems Programmer, Entanet www.enta.net Tel 01952 428969 Mob 07763 620378 PGP Key available, send email with subject: Send PGP Key - Original Message - From: "George Pitcher" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PHP-DB] 1 query or 2 queries

2002-01-18 Thread Patrick Emond
Yes you can do that (that's what relational databases are all about). To join the two tables and fetch the data you need in a single query you would do something like this: SELECT Book.*, Chapter.* FROM Book, Chapter WHERE Book.BookTitle = Chapter.BookTitle Where "BookTitle" is whatever common

[PHP-DB] Resource id #2 ?

2002-01-18 Thread James Kupernik
I run this query $countreq = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM catalogs WHERE PROCESSED IS NULL"); then try to echo $countreq but end up getting Resource id #2 instead of the count total. What would cause this? Thanks for any advise! James -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) T

[PHP-DB] Quotes in db fields

2002-01-18 Thread Faye Keesic
Hi there.. Just wondered why some of my db fields are getting chopped wherever an occurrence of a quote (") is. I used the stripslashes() function before saving them. would this be why? Do quotes need slashes in front of them when stored/being written in the db? Maybe I should use stripslashes

Re: [PHP-DB] Resource id #2 ?

2002-01-18 Thread Patrick Emond
You have to fetch the row that contains the count in it. Try this: $resource = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) cnt FROM catalogs WHERE PROCESSED IS NULL"); $countreq = mysql_fetch_array($resource); echo $countreq[cnt]; (note as well that if no row is returned by the query then $countreq will be se

[PHP-DB] Recalculation ?

2002-01-18 Thread Dave Carrera
Hi All, I have create a page to calculate qtys and show totals. This works fine, except that I change a qty the change is not registered and calculate from the old value. I am using sessions and have try a loop of if($qty == $qty){ than calc stuff here} else{ session_unset($qty); session_registe

[PHP-DB] db looping?

2002-01-18 Thread James Kupernik
Yes another question ... I thank all that have taken to help me learn these new things. I want to display 10 records per page and allow the user to move on to the next page of new records. The code below allows me to move to the second page of records but not any further. I can't seem to think wh

Re: [PHP-DB] How can recommend a book for SQL and DB design

2002-01-18 Thread Gabriel Ricard
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 05:33 PM, DL Neil wrote: > Andy (and Natalie), > > In fact the O'Reilly book on PHP is the exception that might well prove > the rule - normally I think them v.good > The reference work on MySQL is by Paul DuBois (who often stops by > here - "hi Paul") and pub

[PHP-DB] Re: db looping?

2002-01-18 Thread James Chin
Hello James, You're passing you 'i' parameter to the URL incorrectly. PHP splits the paramer list into separate elements by looking for & characters, examining each element for the equal sign. Note this line, towards the end of the code: echo "Next You're separating the 'nextpg' and '

[PHP-DB] Re: db looping?

2002-01-18 Thread James Kupernik
Thank you (as I slam my head against the desk several times)! James "James Chin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello James, > > You're passing you 'i' parameter to the URL incorrectly. PHP splits > the paramer list into separate elements by

RE: [PHP-DB] How can recommend a book for SQL and DB design

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Lott
I always recommend: MySQL by Paul Dubois for the MySQL side and Database Design for Mere Mortals for db design (it's better than the title might sound). Very good in fact. c -- Chris Lott http://www.chrislott.org/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

[PHP-DB] strange link problem to a database item

2002-01-18 Thread chip
In my code I have the following line: printf(" \n", $row["name"], $row["name"]); When I view this web page I get I get, in- konqueror - all thumb images are fine netscape 6 - no thumb images, just a narrow verticle bar opera 6 - a rectangle with the word image in it I tried from work on an nt ma

[PHP-DB] php/msql

2002-01-18 Thread Mike
Hi, I have the following code: while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "".$row[0]."\n"; echo "".$row[1]."\n"; $formatted=sprintf("$%s",$row[2]); echo "" $formatted " "; } I get an error in the last line where I want to put $formatted into the last cell of a table if I // echo $form

Re: [PHP-DB] php/msql

2002-01-18 Thread Fabien ILLIDE
Mike wrote: >Hi, >I have the following code: > >while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > echo "".$row[0]."\n"; > echo "".$row[1]."\n"; > $formatted=sprintf("$%s",$row[2]); > echo "" $formatted " "; >} > >I get an error in the last line where I want to put $formatted into the last >cell of a

Re: [PHP-DB] php/msql

2002-01-18 Thread Fabien ILLIDE
Mike wrote: >Hi, > Hi Mike >I have the following code: > >while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > echo "".$row[0]."\n"; > echo "".$row[1]."\n"; > $formatted=sprintf("$%s",$row[2]); > echo "" $formatted " "; >} > >I get an error in the last line where I want to put $formatted into the last

Re: [PHP-DB] Quotes in db fields

2002-01-18 Thread Miles Thompson
Addslashes on insert, stripslashes on output. Miles At 11:26 AM 1/18/2002 -0600, Faye Keesic wrote: >Hi there.. > >Just wondered why some of my db fields are getting chopped wherever an >occurrence of a quote (") is. > >I used the stripslashes() function before saving them. would this be why? >

Re: [PHP-DB] strange link problem to a database item

2002-01-18 Thread Steven Cayford
Hello again. On 2002.01.18 18:48:36 -0600 chip wrote: > In my code I have the following line: > > printf(" > \n", $row["name"], $row["name"]); Ok. So the "name" field in your table holds the filename of the image and you have a thumbnail image by the same name in the .xvpics folder? What does

Re: [PHP-DB] strange link problem to a database item

2002-01-18 Thread chip
On Friday 18 January 2002 08:09 pm, Steven Cayford banged out on the keys: > Hello again. > > On 2002.01.18 18:48:36 -0600 chip wrote: > > In my code I have the following line: > > > > printf(" > > \n", $row["name"], $row["name"]); > > Ok. So the "name" field in your table holds the filename of th

[PHP-DB] Variable search help still needed - sorry :-(

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Payne
Hi there, I know this is probably a REALLY simple problem, but I can't get this to work. I need to get it to cycle through each word and do a search, I used this as sent from Beau Lebens (Thank you) but I can't get it to work. It works on 1 word querie but if I enter more than 1 it says can'

RE: [PHP-DB] strange link problem to a database item

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Lott
> In my code I have the following line: > > printf(" > \n", $row["name"], $row["name"]); > > When I view this web page I get I get, in- > konqueror - all thumb images are fine > netscape 6 - no thumb images, just a narrow verticle bar Can you make this available somewhere to look at? c -- Ch

Re: [PHP-DB] Variable search help still needed - sorry :-(

2002-01-18 Thread Jason Wong
On Saturday 19 January 2002 13:11, Chris Payne wrote: > Hi there, > > I know this is probably a REALLY simple problem, but I can't get this to > work. I need to get it to cycle through each word and do a search, I used > this as sent from Beau Lebens (Thank you) but I can't get it to work. It >