[PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-05 Thread Colin Guthrie
Brian Dunning wrote: I definitely misunderstood what you guys are saying about the length. That's clearly a problem for a lot of my values. I can switch them both to bigint. One table has 34,000,000 records and it's OK if this is hung up for a few minutes but not much longer than that - any

[PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-04 Thread Colin Guthrie
Brian Dunning wrote: I'm running the following code: $query3 = DELETE FROM table1 WHERE referer=$referer ORDER BY creation LIMIT $numtodelete; $result3 = mysql_query($query3); $string = $total found, $n kept, $numtodelete extras removed ($query3); $x = mysql_query(insert into table2

Re: [PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-04 Thread Brian Dunning
$referer is always an integer, 6 to 10 digits long. To clarify: the value of $referer is changing between line 1, where $query3 is being set, and line 4, where it's being written into my debugging log table2. I can't see any way that $referer could be different in those two places. On

[PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-04 Thread Colin Guthrie
Brian Dunning wrote: I'm running the following code: $query3 = DELETE FROM table1 WHERE referer=$referer ORDER BY creation LIMIT $numtodelete; $result3 = mysql_query($query3); $string = $total found, $n kept, $numtodelete extras removed ($query3); $x = mysql_query(insert into table2

RE: [PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-04 Thread Instruct ICC
Brian Dunning wrote: I'm running the following code: $query3 = DELETE FROM table1 WHERE referer=$referer ORDER BY creation LIMIT $numtodelete; $result3 = mysql_query($query3); $string = $total found, $n kept, $numtodelete extras removed ($query3); $x = mysql_query(insert into

[PHP] Re: Super bizarre changing variable!!

2007-10-04 Thread Colin Guthrie
Richard Davey wrote: What data type do the referer / friend_id columns have in MySQL? int? tinyint? etc Ahh of course. That'll be it. The different tables will have different definitions of the friend_id field and one will be overflowing! Well spotted Richard wood for the trees for me