RE: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-10-01 Thread Daevid Vincent
This may be overkill for what you're doing, but based upon your layout, you might consider a nested set. Since you're a newb, it may be too complex to code: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html This is how you setup products and categories for example I think your s

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-10-01 Thread nhadie
; Cc: nhadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, php-db@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:23:41 -0700 Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help This is definitely not the best advice in the world. The truth is you could staple your eye lids open and never blink, but it wouldn't be very beneficial. I h

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-09-28 Thread TG
ibly wrong and give a better solution, please enlighten. Always willing to learn new things if they are, indeed, better. -TG - Original Message - From: "Bob Chatman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: nhadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, php-db@li

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-09-28 Thread Bob Chatman
e server. It'd be the same > idea when dealing with multiple customers. > > Just make sure that the prefix you use for a customer doesn't use > characters > that are bad for table names. > > What kind of data are you thinking about storing for your customers and > y

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-09-28 Thread TG
for a customer doesn't use characters that are bad for table names. What kind of data are you thinking about storing for your customers and your customer's customers? And what other data do you need to store for whatever your webapp does? -TG - Original Message ----- From: nha

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-09-28 Thread nhadie
Thanks for your reply, which solution would be faster and not put too much load on the resources of the server? single or multiple database? If i use a single database, would i be having same tables for each customer, e.g. if i have customerinfo table for customers of A, would i also have custo

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2007-09-28 Thread TG
You could do separate databases if you want. It all depends on how you want to organize your data (keeping in mind data backup strategies and stuff). Using separate databases on the same server, you might have another database for the 'common' data. Any variables you store in the database th

RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Rich Hutchins
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php -Original Message- From: Nicola Hartland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Newbie help I need some help to install and configure php I have tried downloading it a d

Re: [PHP-DB] Newbie help with cookies/sessions

2001-11-27 Thread Andrey Hristov
Probably you are using windows. In the php.ini there is a setting where session files have to be stored. The default is /tmp which under windows is relative to the current drive where is php installed. I see that you changed this parameter. I think that there is no such directory /Temp on the dr

RE: [PHP-DB] Newbie Help: Searching

2001-09-05 Thread Beau Lebens
have a form with something like then submit it to a page that might do something like $Query = "SELECT * FROM enet WHERE TechContact LIKE '%$TechContact%' AND AdminContact LIKE '%'"; which will locate anything CONTAINING what the user enters in the text field HTH Beau // -Original Mes

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2001-03-26 Thread CC Zona
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Coyne) wrote: > now does anyone know about getting ages from dates of birth (previous post > of mine) and also searching by age group when you only have dates of birth > in the table!! See the MySQL manual's chapter on date/time functions

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2001-03-25 Thread Matt Coyne
co.uk : : :t h r e e z e r o > From: CC Zona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:39:23 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMA

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2001-03-25 Thread Dean Bennett
It looks like your checks are reversed, and you end up with 2 ANDs between the sex and height clauses. Like someone else pointed out, it is very helpful to echo the generated query so you can see what you've got. A simpler solution, assuming that both fields are optional: $sql = "SELECT ref,

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie help

2001-03-25 Thread CC Zona
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Coyne) wrote: > I have been trying to detect if the variable holds any value and then > building a query by concatenating like this: if(!empty($foo)) { ... } > $result=@mysql_query($concatsql, $connection) or die ("bugger...!");