Re: [PHP-DB] reading files instead of using tables

2001-01-11 Thread Miles Thompson
http://www.php.net/manual/function.readdir.php complete with example. Miles At 03:24 PM 01/11/2001 +0530, sarahana wrote: >Hi, >I seem to be having some problem with the general php list, so I'm sending >this question here - please do not get annoyed :-) > >I want to read a directory and count

Re: [PHP-DB] SQL Newbie Database search question

2001-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
add DISTINCT to your query select distinct specific_p, qty from database where specific_p = 68030 and qty > 0 For you second requirement, get them all, and just use the first one ... can't remember exact syntax but something like select specific_p from database where specific_p like %6803

[PHP-DB] while loop driving me crazy

2001-02-21 Thread Miles Thompson
ling of passwords completed. end of output -- I believe it should show, in addition to the record count.. "In the while" 5 times, interspersed with password values. What is the dumb obvious thing I'm missing? Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP Database Mai

RE: [PHP-DB] while loop driving me crazy

2001-02-21 Thread Miles Thompson
Richard, What can one say? Too late? Too long looking at it? Reading too quickly? or in the immortal wordsof Charlie Brow " AUUGH!" Thanks a million and love your signature. Miles Thompson At 03:30 PM 2/21/01 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > while( $row = mysql_fetch_a

Re: [PHP-DB] cookies, email and passwords

2001-02-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Matthew, Aren't we all. There's code at www.zend.com which deals with user logins, mailing form information, cookies, storing data etc. Have a look at www.thickbook.com, also WeberDev, DevShed and www.phpbuilder.com Sessions are pretty easy to use, and you may want to consider them rather tha

[PHP-DB] Anyone tried a MySQL load data infile statement?

2001-02-27 Thread Miles Thompson
unction might also be a general purpose execution tool for MySQL commands. Anyone tried anything similar? It's a really cool way to quickly update a database from a, in this case, tab-delimited file. Miles Thompson -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL novice: database not updating ... LONG

2001-02-28 Thread Miles Thompson
Three things I see: 1. You seem to be assigning hard-coded values to u_mange_users, and "0" , as it is last, will always win. I think, I alsway have to mess with them a bit. That's why checking your SQL is important. 2. You are embedding a semi-colon in SQL statements. That's not necessary. 3

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Miles Thompson
Matthew, Do you want to be told how, or want to read an interesting article on just this, including PHP script to build your archives. It's one of the early PHP tutorials -- try a search on "php movie database". I adapted code from that for my own archive, although I run a shell script, logg

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Miles Thompson
goes, I will go have a look at the page. Regards - Miles At 10:28 PM 2/28/01 +, Matthew Cothier wrote: >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Thompson) >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage >>Date:

Re: [PHP-DB] Create view and Select in Interbase

2001-03-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Check your Interbase documentation. Normally you create your view as part of the database and then use it like a table, most database's allow parameterized views, where, at run time you supply the needed variable. I'd also think that as both results are passed back to $sth, the execution of $

Re: [PHP-DB] php and mysql file insertion!

2001-03-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Kevin, You generally get much better performance naming and storing your file in a directory, keeping only the link in a text field in MySQL. (Or just about any other database for that matter.) Miles Thompson At 06:27 PM 3/6/01 +, Kevin Connolly wrote: >Hi, >I have a MySQL databas

Re: [PHP-DB] detect cookies

2001-03-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Reminder - page has to be reloaded before cookie becomes visible. (or should I say is picked up by the browser.) Use phpinfo() to double check. Miles At 07:51 PM 3/6/01 -0300, JJeffman wrote: >I've never used but there is a php function "get_browser()" which might do >the work. >I think the be

Re: [PHP-DB] mail server

2001-03-07 Thread Miles Thompson
the ISP's. Aren't there any open source mail programs for NT? I don't think this would be very fast, but Python has an SMTP module which is very easy to use, but then you'd be invoking Python and calling a script every time you wanted to send something. Not an opt

Re: [PHP-DB] newbie: MySQL importing data from a variable

2001-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
g $filelist ,= $file; before the echo statement, also echo $filelist to see how it builds. If it is doing what you want, then substitute it for $file in your update statement. REgards - Miles Thompson At 10:26 AM 3/12/01 -0800, Gavin Tong wrote: >Hi, I've been trying to get this script

Re: [PHP-DB] LIMIT in MS SQL

2001-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
I think so, but check the SS lang manual. It should be under the syntax for SELECT, maybe it's called "TOP". Haven't worked with SS for a while. MIles At 02:24 PM 3/12/01 +, Fredrik Wahlberg wrote: >Is there any equivalent to MySQL's "LIMIT x,y" in Microsoft SQL-Server? > >/Fredrik > >-- >PH

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] PHP Book

2001-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
That was the PostgreSQL book. I think it's still there as HTML, but hey, support the cause and buy his book. Miles At 11:15 AM 3/12/01 -0300, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I am new at PHP and I realize that the pdf format of the PHP Book by Bruce >Momjian at http://www.php.net has been removed from th

Re: [PHP-DB] Using text files instead of a DB

2001-03-12 Thread Miles Thompson
/password and, just possibly 3. Provide the most elemental of scripts so you can do a bulk load, thereby creating your tables. For that maybe a $50 one-time charge. $50 per month, never! Publish their name and shame them!! << RANT MODE OFF >> Best regards - Mi

Re: [PHP-DB] Using text files instead of a DB

2001-03-13 Thread Miles Thompson
expect? How much time, if you have any idea at all, does MySQL demand in regular attention? Regards - Miles Thompson At 05:53 PM 3/12/01 -0800, Ron Brogden wrote: >At 09:29 PM 3/12/2001 -0400, you wrote: >>THE ROTTERS!! They don't have to do ANYTHING to support MySQL except: >&g

Re: [PHP-DB] comparison table script

2001-03-23 Thread Miles Thompson
ur table will blow out to the right, something users don't like. How do you plan to have users select the cars they want more information about? Only you can answer these, and maybe you have. In which case, good luck. Miles Thompson At 07:52 PM 3/22/01 -0800, olinux wrote: >I would

Re: [PHP-DB] Tree structures...

2001-03-24 Thread Miles Thompson
P2.ID I don't see how this handles the null values, but I hope it can get you started. I'll cheerfully hand this on to persons more expert in SQL than myself. HOw you display it, once you have the values fetched is another exercise. The book is worth getting. ISBN 1-55860-323-9 Regard

RE: [PHP-DB] Tree structures...

2001-03-26 Thread Miles Thompson
Richard comes through again --- in spades!! Miles At 09:35 AM 3/26/01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You may want to check out my tutorial on recursively processing this >sort of structure on the easysoft website: > >http://www.easysoft.com/tech/php/tut_002/main.phtml > >Hope this helps > >

Re: [PHP-DB] Updating multilple tables?

2003-11-27 Thread Miles Thompson
If you are searching in the same field (column) in each table, and the key field has the same name in all tables, build an array of table names and loop through it, executing your update on each iteration. Regards - Miles Thompson PS From your description it sounds as if you have a database

Re: [PHP-DB] transaction locking

2003-12-05 Thread Miles Thompson
rk for you. Regards - Miles Thompson At 06:11 AM 12/5/2003 -0700, Aleks Kalynovych wrote: Good morning all, I have a couple forms that generate a unique ID based on taking the highest number in the ID column adding 1 to its value. The problem is that I don’t save that number until the form is submitte

RE: [PHP-DB] transaction locking

2003-12-05 Thread Miles Thompson
n the dB if you setup a new table and set a column\ To auto increment, it starts a the number 1. Can this be set to a higher number Say 5454 ?? TIA Aleks -Original Message- From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: [PHP-DB] User defined function in a mysql query

2003-12-10 Thread Miles Thompson
1. Is the function allowed by MySQL? 2. Can you execute the function before the query, assign what it returns to a var, then place the var in your query? Miles At 04:43 PM 12/10/2003 +0100, antonio bernabei wrote: Hi, I need to make a join between two tables. And I can use the mysql_query functi

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP/DB speed

2003-12-21 Thread Miles Thompson
s there any way you can pare it down? MySQL will select those records really quickly, but then the HTML has to be generated and the broser has to render the list. Try and rethink this if you can. Regards - Miles Thompson -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscri

Re: [PHP-DB] getting font size from browser

2004-01-30 Thread Miles Thompson
PHP is SERVER side, not browser side. That's a Javascript question. Miles At 11:14 AM 1/30/2004 +0100, Roy G. Vervoort wrote: Is it possible to retreive the font size or view size from the browser. In the browser it is possible to change the screenview (make it larger or smaller for people with a

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql_connect problem

2004-02-02 Thread Miles Thompson
At 03:42 PM 2/2/2004 +0100, DiZEM PGC wrote: I try connecting to an existing mysql DB. The first time I directly called mysql_connect with all required params (Path/Database,User,Password) and established a connection without problems. Second time I have used a script that includes a self-written c

RE: [PHP-DB] Cookies ?

2004-02-09 Thread Miles Thompson
Did you refresh the page after setting the cookie? mt At 05:00 PM 2/9/2004 -0800, Omelin Morelos wrote: I have already tried it , It's not working. Thanks -Mensaje original- De: Chris Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Monday, February 09, 2004 5:09 PM Para: Omelin Morelos; [EMA

Re: [PHP-DB] Sending variables to Flash from php

2004-03-03 Thread Miles Thompson
At 08:59 PM 3/3/2004 +, Donovan Hutchinson wrote: Hi, I'm working on a simple bit of flash that should display some text passed into it from PHP. I'm using the FlashVars as following (trimmed for brevity): .. In flash, i've set up a dynamic text block called nametext, and added the foll

Re: [PHP-DB] Impact of MySQL Queries

2004-03-11 Thread Miles Thompson
a and grouping it? More information is needed to answer your question properly. Regards - Miles Thompson At 11:16 AM 3/11/2004 -0800, Marcjon Louwersheimer wrote: I have IIS 4.x and MySQL running on the same machine. So do queries use up bandwidth? Does it matter if I have 20 queries per page? Will that

Re: [PHP-DB] mssql insert

2004-03-28 Thread Miles Thompson
>$query = "INSERT INTO myTable VALUES ('".$myVar."');'; Check the commas? Miles At 05:50 PM 3/28/2004 +1200, Martin Ryan wrote: Got a dumb-ass question for you all. I have got insert queries working with mssql_query($query); except if any of the variables have two or more words. For example: $myVa

Re: [PHP-DB] Remove white space?

2004-04-22 Thread Miles Thompson
1. Don't cross-post! 2. Read the string functions in the php manual. You probably don't want to remove all white space, just trim. Have a look at http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php 3. You will find a function to do exactly what you want. Regards - Miles Thompson At 10:

Re: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this IF statement?

2004-04-22 Thread Miles Thompson
Don't cross post -- you'll eventually annoy enough people that they'll stop responding! Here are some suggestions: Are you closing braces properly? (Assume you must be, otherwise errors would be thrown. Have you echoed your $cat_id so you know if you are getting? Use the in_array function to s

Re: [PHP-DB] Using Cursors

2004-06-01 Thread Miles Thompson
At 11:12 AM 6/1/2004, Gerard Samuel wrote: A bit off topic, but lately I've been running into situations, where I have to know about using cursors with databases, like sql server, ibm db2 Can anyone point me to online resources that explains (to a practical newbie) "cursors" Thanks Gerard, Thin

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] Best table structure

2004-06-30 Thread Miles Thompson
nswer them. Regards - Miles Thompson At 07:53 AM 6/30/2004, Tom Chubb wrote: Please can someone let me know their opinion on the following: I have written some code for submitting a top 20 music chart online. I use the following to insert into mysql: INSERT INTO chart (name, chartpos, artist, title, lab

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Restrict account access to single user

2004-07-15 Thread Miles Thompson
s a site where you are distributing published materials (.pdf's) you may take a good look at what Adobe calls, or used to call, Web Merchant, bite the bullet on the licensing and royalty fees, and reconcile yourself to a Windows / IIS solution. Cheers - Miles Thompson At 02:23 PM 7/15/2004, Tim V

RE: [PHP-DB] SQL Insert problem

2004-08-05 Thread Miles Thompson
1. echo your $sql to make certain it's as sound as you think. 2. i don't see execution of the query: mysql_query( $sql) - you'll have to put the die() & error after this function. Hth - mthompson At 12:05 PM 8/5/2004, Vincent Jordan wrote: I have inserted '$address2', correctly in the row however

Re: [PHP-DB] Exporting Data From MySQL Using PHP

2004-08-07 Thread Miles Thompson
en you're ready to ask questions, but this one you'll have dealt with by then. Regards - Miles Thompson At 11:01 PM 8/6/2004, Ron Piggott wrote: I have created a MySQL database. The table I am creating is a subscriptions database. I want to be able to export all e-mail addresses stored in

Re: [PHP-DB] Good books on sql / mysql

2004-08-11 Thread Miles Thompson
hese are still in print; they are both v. good and quite product-neutral references. Joe Celko also had a web site with a collection of articles he'd written for various magazines, don't know if it's still up.. Regards - Miles Thompson At 08:46 PM 8/10/2004, Ross Honniball wrote:

Re: [PHP-DB] Lock Record on Postgresql

2004-08-13 Thread Miles Thompson
Norma, Generally speaking issuing locks on records across the internet is not a good idea. Too many things can happen that could result in the record never being unlocked. Recognize the HTTP is stateless, that's one of its limitations, and work around that. Regards - Miles At 11:30 AM 8/13/20

Re: [PHP-DB] Lock Record on Postgresql

2004-08-13 Thread Miles Thompson
Torsten, Elegant! Miles At 02:03 PM 8/13/2004, Torsten Roehr wrote: "Norma Ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for answer Miles, I'm aware of what you wrote but have a little hope > to find some way, and Robby what I'm trying to do is avoid the user for > u

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Help! WINXP/Apache2.0/PHP4.3.8 - Can't run PHP

2004-08-20 Thread Miles Thompson
: and call it from your browser. If your configuration is correct you will see pages of information on your setup and configuration. If not, then it's back to the installation section of the fine manual. Regards - Miles Thompson PS Remember, PHP executes SERVER side, not client side. Don&#x

Re: [PHP-DB] Bug with assignment operator ( := )

2004-08-28 Thread Miles Thompson
istMonthqty06 + StkhistMonthqty07 + StkhistMonthqty08) as total . . rest of statement ... . and total > 0 Regards - Miles Thompson At 10:10 PM 8/28/2004, Ross Honniball wrote: SQL Statement: select *,@xtotal := StkhistMonthqty06 + StkhistMonthqty07 + StkhistMonthqty08 as total from StkMast

Re: [PHP-DB] Mass mail

2004-09-20 Thread Miles Thompson
he mailing functions which Manuel Lemos has on his site. HTH - Miles Thompson At 10:18 AM 9/20/2004, nikos wrote: Hello list A client of mine sends thousands of mails as newsletters and wants as to make an Interface to admin this list. Its easy to put this mail list in a MySQL table and make the

Re: [PHP-DB] which DB to use?

2004-10-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Check the MySQL docs - I *think* subqueries are supported in the latest version, but not triggers or stored procedures. But as I say, check. Alternatives? PostgreSQL or Firebird. HTH - Miles Thompson At 11:07 AM 10/1/2004, Matthew Perry wrote: Thank you very much for your help. If I had to

Re: [PHP-DB] Database Design Recommendations

2004-11-02 Thread Miles Thompson
Eric, Your second approach is fine. It's denormalized, extensible, and can be manipulated using tools you put in place. You may want to consider "groups" as well, thus people belonging to a group could view/edit pages, that has the potential to save a lot of administrative scut work. A table

RE: [PHP-DB] PHP-HTML-select deny

2004-12-03 Thread Miles Thompson
Good suggestion Anna, that's what we do for AllNovaScotia.com, plus we add this bit of .css @media print { body { display: none; } } Then viewer can't print the page. We do this because only certain subscribers have printing privileges. Regards - Miles Thompson At 0

RE: [PHP-DB] mysql to access

2004-12-17 Thread Miles Thompson
Use ODBC to use MySQL from either Access or VB (or any other language!) MT At 12:25 PM 12/17/2004, Perry, Matthew (Fire Marshal's Office) wrote: Here is the problem: I am currently using MySQL and PHP for this application but have realized recently that the bulk of my work is setting up three form

Re: [PHP-DB] MYSQL

2004-12-22 Thread Miles Thompson
fit it to a language: maybe all the processing could be done in the SELECT statement, maybe some will have to be done after the results are returned. Regards - Miles Thompson At 12:42 AM 12/22/2004, Balwant Singh wrote: hi to all, may somebody guide me on the following: I want to retrieve data from

Re: [PHP-DB] is this a problem ?

2004-12-28 Thread Miles Thompson
ne, work with it and adapt it to your needs. However, why is your form's action parameter set to a string of hyphens? Regards - Miles Thompson At 09:25 AM 12/28/2004, amol patil wrote: hallo, i have changed file signup1.php with login1.php, in action fied of form and saved . but when i r

Re: [PHP-DB] Any recomendations on a report writer to use with MY-SQL

2005-01-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Any report writer that supports ODBC. As far as I know, there are no open source report writers like CR. (Gawd, I'd hope they'd be better; my relationship with CR is sort of love-hate.) Love it when the job's done, hate having to touch a working report because everything's binary & when it break

Re: [PHP-DB] Programmer required

2005-02-02 Thread Miles Thompson
This is waaay off topic, but: I hope you mean retired, who will presumably work for less. Why would you want one who's not current? Just wondering - Miles At 09:47 AM 2/2/2005, ioannes wrote: I'm looking for a programmer, preferably in London or UK, who has been maybe out of work for a few years,

Re: [PHP-DB] Programmer required

2005-02-02 Thread Miles Thompson
At 11:10 AM 2/2/2005, Martin Norland wrote: Miles Thompson wrote: This is waaay off topic, but: I hope you mean retired, who will presumably work for less. Why would you want one who's not current? Just wondering - Miles At 09:47 AM 2/2/2005, ioannes wrote: I'm looking for a programmer,

Re: [PHP-DB] Cannot connect to local server

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Thompson
New version of MySQL, old PHP? possible password encryption mis-match? Check out: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html Regards - Miles At 06:33 AM 2/10/2005, Denis Gerasimov wrote: Hello, I am trying to connect to MySQL using $mysqli = new mysqli("example.com", "user", "pass",

Re: [PHP-DB] Pictures in MySQL database

2002-01-24 Thread Miles Thompson
found this faster and more reliable. Regards - Miles Thompson At 10:16 AM 1/24/2002 +0100, K wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to create database with many pictures. >I have problem with inserting pictures to table in MySQL. I created table >where one of the name of column is "imag

Re: [PHP-DB] dynamic sql

2002-01-25 Thread Miles Thompson
dlist $wherecondition" ? When we think about it a bit, if we are assigning a SQL statement to $sql, we are passing a dynamic variable to mysql_query(), so why not create it using variables? Cheers - Miles Thompson At 11:58 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, Michael K. Dolan Jr. wrote: >Is it possible

Re: [PHP-DB] Double results

2002-01-27 Thread Miles Thompson
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT * FROM newforum WHERE id='$id' OR replyto='$id''"; BUT you do have an OR in your where condition. Try it - Miles On Sunday 27 January 2002 10:18 am, Jordy Driessen wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a query which can eliminate double results? Because my query ($sql > = "SELEC

Re: [PHP-DB] Date operations.

2002-01-29 Thread Miles Thompson
Garry, Could you please explain (define) in one sentence(paragraph) what end result you want. It might be possible to handle it in one SQL statement. Miles Thompson At 09:54 AM 1/30/2002 +1100, Garry Optland wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, DL Neil wrote: > > > > > Can I req

Re: [PHP-DB] Select statement only returns 1 record

2002-01-30 Thread Miles Thompson
Check the manual for the mysql_fetch_array() function, it shows you how to extract data from $result. You will use the while loop (as shown in the manual's example) to fill your combo box / selct list /drop down menu, whatever we're calling that creature today. Miles At 12:45 PM 1/30/2002 -06

Re: [PHP-DB] Adding to an empty field

2002-01-31 Thread Miles Thompson
Assume query looks OK when you echo it? You're not seeing a literal "$id", are you? Does an id exist for $id? Is it numeric or char? Check mysql_affected_rows() - what does it return? Miles Thompson At 02:07 PM 1/31/2002 +, Alex Francis wrote: >I have an empty field i

RE: [PHP-DB] DELETE in mysql?

2002-02-01 Thread Miles Thompson
Read the MySQL documentation on DELETE. Multi-table deletes are a new feature in 4.x; for the present it's one table at a time. Cheers - Miles Thompson At 02:44 PM 2/1/2002 -0800, Adv. Systems Design wrote: >Maybe my example attempt is misguided but the idea is >to look up the p

Re: [PHP-DB] Combined sql statement

2002-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
This just showed up, where was it stuck? Essentially you do a SELECT into your target table, if the target key exists, which you determine from row count, then you do an UPDATE, otherwise an INSERT. I don't know what else you have wrapped around this, in terms of control structure, so here's

Re: [PHP-DB] Update

2002-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
t the script times out? Who is going to keep track of when it was run? What check value scheme will you have in place to make certain none of this happens? What you are planning to do is bad practice. Please reconsider. Regards - Miles Thompson At 01:51 PM 2/4/2002 -0800, Jennifer Downey wrote

Re: [PHP-DB] Update

2002-02-04 Thread Miles Thompson
ng part of it. The web is a strange place, very unlike any other programming environment, with conditions which trip up people who have been programming for years. Regards - Miles Thompson PS When updating a numerical field in MySQL, the general form of the statement is like

Re: [PHP-DB] query error...

2002-02-05 Thread Miles Thompson
Did you type this out or cut/paste? There was a comma missing between >>> state"\"zip <<<. Should work when you add the comma. Add a WHERE condition for the update, otherwise every row will be set to these values. Common practice is to use single quotes around the char variables, saves a lot

Re: [PHP-DB] help files...

2002-02-06 Thread Miles Thompson
Google search for php wiki, or save that step and go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/ Miles Thompson At 05:26 AM 2/6/2002 -0700, jas wrote: >Is there anyone out there that has developed an application using php and >mysql that allows clients etc to update and maintain the

Re: [PHP-DB] Maintain MySQL Transactions

2002-02-09 Thread Miles Thompson
Unless there has been a very recent development, MySQL doesn't support transactions. Use PostgreSQL, DB, etc. Miles Thompson At 09:51 AM 2/9/2002 +0300, Hayan Al Mamoun wrote: >Hi, How can I maintain MySQL transactions with PHP > >Best Regards >Hayan > > >-- >PH

Re: [PHP-DB] Required pages...

2002-02-12 Thread Miles Thompson
oded passwords are there so that htdig can be authenticated to index these pages. Regards - Miles Thompson At 03:22 AM 2/12/2002 -0700, jas wrote: >I am wondering if there is a way to force users to come from a certain page. >For an example I am using a login page which once authenticated allows

RE: [PHP-DB] Disable Right click w/ php?

2002-02-14 Thread Miles Thompson
At a philosophical level, I don't think this should be done -- I don't want people messing with my browser settings, because sure as shooting they will not be restored when I leave the site. What is so precious in the HTML that one can't view the source? Miles At 12:12 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, Ric

Re: [PHP-DB] Big speed problem with MySQL

2002-02-15 Thread Miles Thompson
How are you fetching the data? Do you have indexes on the key fields used in queries? Are you doing the work in SQL or sorting /rearranging a lot of arrays? There are many possibilities for slowness, but you have to tell us what you're doing. Regards - Miles Thompson At 11:53 AM 2/15

Re: [PHP-DB] formating w/ table

2002-02-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Jas color=\"33\">\n"; } ?> The is in the loop. Place it outside & you'll be OK. Miles Thompson At 01:35 AM 2/15/2002 -0700, jas wrote: >I am having a little problem formating data retrieved from a database into >table cells... So far after connecting

Re: [PHP-DB] Inserting into Access

2002-04-03 Thread Miles Thompson
George, From the Access help file ... "You must use English (United States) date formats in SQL statements in Visual Basic. However, you can use international date formats in the query design grid." Have you tried the date as 04032002 or 04/03/2002? (Neither make much sense in association wit

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql tables

2002-04-24 Thread Miles Thompson
Read the MySQL docs and find out! MT At 10:27 AM 4/24/2002 +0300, Marius Ursache wrote: >hi > >how many columns can have a mysql table? > >tnx > >-- > Marius Ursache (3563 || 3494) > >\|/ \|/ >"@'/ ,. \`@" >

Re: [PHP-DB] Search Script

2002-04-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Jennifer, In the manual it's probably under the SELECT heading. (I've not checked, but that's a godd spot to start looking for the bits that can amke up the WHERE clause.) Try removing the single quotes - you have one before >%shopsear< and another following iname, as > iname'" < Sorry this

Re: [PHP-DB] Search Script

2002-04-25 Thread Miles Thompson
And Maureen is right! We just so *used* to seeing equal signs in SELECT statements. Smacking fist on head Miles Thompson At 02:23 PM 4/25/2002 +, Maureen wrote: >The query should read as below, without the = after the LIKE: > >$query = "SELECT uid, id, image, iname,

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Search Script

2002-04-25 Thread Miles Thompson
Jennifer, Check if there is a "set exact" setting for MySQL. Using LIKE should find everything beginning with "Starr". You may also have to convert search term and target values to one of lower or upper case in the SELECT statement. Miles At 10:55 AM 4/25/2002 -0700, Jennifer Downey wrote: >

Re: [PHP-DB] updating several rows with a single form

2002-05-04 Thread Miles Thompson
Go to Julie Meloni's site at http://www.thickbook.com and have a look at the tutorials, or any of the tutorials listed on the PHP home page, or at DevShed, or PHPBuilder, or WebMonkey, or Zend. There are lots to choose from. Miles Thompson At 07:55 PM 5/4/2002 +0200, Antoine Panier wrote

Re: [PHP-DB] query error

2002-05-05 Thread Miles Thompson
. Use mysql_affected_rows() to determine the number of rows which were inserted. Finally, you aren't assigning the return value from mysql_query(), so if you are testing a variable on line 24 it has nothing assigned to it. HTH - Miles Thompson At 02:44 PM 5/5/2002 +0800, erich wrote: >when i

[PHP-DB] Re:dBASE connectivity

2002-07-04 Thread Miles Thompson
2002 +0100, labhras sammin wrote: >thanks for your help >I have tested that everything works, valid handles, returned method values, >etc. >Line 23 is the dbase_add_record line. Do you know of anywhere there may be >an example >thanks Labhras > > >"Miles Thompson&qu

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP dBASE connectivity

2002-07-04 Thread Miles Thompson
tions were not really reliable and were intended mostly to extract info for export to another database. I could not be 100% wrong on that, and I've not worked with the dbase functions in PHP. After this reply, please keep this focused on the php-db list. Regards - Miles Thompson At 12:14 P

Re: [PHP-DB] Delete from multiple tables with php

2002-07-09 Thread Miles Thompson
I think this changed this in the more recent version(s) of MySQL. Check the MySQL docs which match your current version. Proceed from there, it's only a query. Miles Thompson At 03:11 PM 7/9/2002 -0400, Steve Bradwell wrote: >Hi, > >What is the best way to simulate the fo

Re: [PHP-DB] Adding and Stripping Slashes

2002-07-12 Thread Miles Thompson
Check manual for stripslashes (and addslashes) Here's the URL: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php Miles At 12:10 PM 7/12/2002 -0400, Blaine D. Dinsmore wrote: >I was wondering if anyone knew a good method for handling data pulled from a >MySQL database to the browser as well as

Re: [PHP-DB] ID numbers not sorting Properly

2002-07-12 Thread Miles Thompson
one, "ORDER BY probid" if probid is your autoinc field. Cheers - Miles Thompson At 12:34 PM 7/12/2002 -0400, Blaine D. Dinsmore wrote: >I'm using MySQL and I have noticed that my primary key which are >autoincrementing numbers do not sort properly when pulling the resul

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use Full text search?

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Thompson
of random thoughts - Miles Thompson At 08:40 AM 7/18/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I break up the search words using a function and then build a query based >on the search criteria. If it is multiple words, I use REGEXP for the >search.( I use a mysql database). then when there ar

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use Full text search?

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Thompson
At 07:29 PM 7/18/2002 +0530, Dasmeet Singh wrote: >Miles Thompson wrote: >>What database is being used? >>How is the target structured and are there indexes to use? >>My concern with this approach, though I don't have a better one, is that >>it will be deathly

Re: [PHP-DB] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in .....

2002-07-18 Thread Miles Thompson
e what they are. Regards - Miles Thompson At 06:37 PM 7/18/2002 -0700, Vincent wrote: >Hi, I'm a newbie here. I don't know what went wrong. >I've tried searching for solutions and can't find any. >How come pg_connect() isn't defined? Should I include >any header file

Re: [PHP-DB] Select * from t1.id where not equal to t2.id ???

2002-08-03 Thread Miles Thompson
what do you really want to do? Miles Thompson At 08:07 AM 8/3/2002 +0100, Dave Carrera wrote: >High all > >I cant seem to get this sql working. > >I am trying to pull everything from table 1 (t1) where t1.id is not >equal to table 2 (t2) id > >I cant find examples anywhere.

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQL queries

2002-08-14 Thread Miles Thompson
George, It is likely that your win32 system did not care about case. If you are using a *nix host it is case sensitive, and its installation of MySQL, by extension, is as well. Try echo'ing the select statement to see what you have. Miles At 10:42 PM 8/14/2002 +0100, Georgie Casey wrote: >fo

Re: [PHP-DB] How to upload images to mysql database?

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
Generally better to load information about the image, including its location, to the database. This is faster, keeps the database to a manageable size, and avoids unpacking the the image, so to speak, every time you want to use it. Miles Thompson At 12:13 PM 8/15/2002 -0500, Bo wrote

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT statement problem

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
SELECT * FROM tickets_work WHERE employee_id = '$tech_id' AND start > '$start' AND end < '$end' ORDER BY start Which will select everything from tickets_work for a given employee between start and end. What is not working? Miles Thompson

RE: [PHP-DB] SELECT statement problem

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Thompson
); > > while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array( $TICKET_WORK_INFO ) ) > { > $ticket_id = $row["ticket_id"]; > $start = $row["start"]; > $end = $row["end"]; > $total_hours = $r

Re: [PHP-DB] Windows XP

2002-08-18 Thread Miles Thompson
Gerard, This is a shot in the dark, but does the web server (usually NOBODY, but "crash" in this case? Ominous name!) have an account on the XP box and the appropriate permissions to write to the MySQL database? That's where I'd start, along with checking mysql_error(). Miles At 04:18 PM 8/

Re: [PHP-DB] Windows XP

2002-08-19 Thread Miles Thompson
p script has the correct database >credentials, it should do what it needs to do. Well on my FreeBSD box >that is. But Im not sure if additional configurations are in order for winXP. > >Any guidance would be appreciated... >Thx > > >Miles Thompson wrote: > >>G

Re: [PHP-DB] time slots and PHP/MySQL

2002-08-21 Thread Miles Thompson
Don't want to get too philosophical, but don't PIM/Contact Management projects like TWIG have a feature like this? Now, this is just off the top of my head, but rather than create a timeslots table, wouldn't you have an event table, and a member_booked table? The minimum fields in event would

RE: [PHP-DB] auto_increment problem???

2002-08-26 Thread Miles Thompson
-MySQL function that can be used right after a >Query that explicitly tells MySQL to close such a connection so that >columns of type: INT - auto_increment will *always* start from 1 if the >table contains no records (table is empty)?? > >Thanks a lot for your help. :-) > >---

Re: [PHP-DB] AUTO_INCREMENT problemos

2002-08-27 Thread Miles Thompson
Checl your MySQL docs and redefine the table if necessary: table type of ISAM - autoincrement numbers get reused table type of MyISAM - autoincrement numbers are not reused. Many people prefer the latter and use the values as primary and foreign keys. Miles Thompson At 05:21 PM 8/27/2002

Re: [PHP-DB] Indepth Tutorial... need help.

2002-09-03 Thread Miles Thompson
They are "single issue" tutorial, aredevloped progressively and quite clear. A new user must read the section of the manual which deals with variables. The way PHP creates variables automatically can be a bit confusing to the newcomer. Hope this helps - Miles Thompson At 04:49 PM 9

Re: [PHP-DB] POSTGRESQL & PHP

2002-09-09 Thread Miles Thompson
to be started with the -i switch to be accessible from the Internet. Check docs. Hope this helps - Miles Thompson PS For help on the list #2 suggestion is really important. At 06:10 PM 9/9/2002 +0200, Tomator wrote: >I've installed MySQL and PostgreSQL on my XP. I'd like to make an P

Re: [PHP-DB] Need help getting record number off insert

2002-09-11 Thread Miles Thompson
. I hope you aren't planning to use this as foreign key, i.e. for referencing information in this table from another table. Miles Thompson At 08:29 AM 9/11/2002 -0400, Anthony wrote: >I'm doing an insert and need to get the record number that is generated >when the record

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