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sending email in php unable to use HTML tags

I am trying to send an email through the result sets generated in MySQL in PHP This is the code. <?php $txtMsg = '<table><th>Name</th>'; $txtMsg = ''; mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "pop") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("jpd") or die(mysql_error()); $oustanding = mysql_query("select Name from results") or die...

Problem with PHP & MySQL

I wrote this statements but it is not work :( ... can you tell me why? HTML: <form action="join.php" method="post"> <label name="RoomName">Room1</label> </form> PHP: $roomName = $_POST['RoomName']; $roomID = "SELECT RoomID FROM rooms WHERE RoomName = $roomName"; EDIT: thanks but in my work the user does not have the ability to ed...

With PHP and AJAX, Can two clients inter-exchange data without MySQL?

Hi, Let's assume I'm developing a AJAX, PHP chess game. During the game, one movement of a player will be notified to the another but we are not saving that information. Normally, we used to store in MySQL every time a player makes movement and show update position to another player. What I want is to reduce MySQL load as much as possibl...

How to get decent MySQL driver perfomance in Ruby

I notice that I am getting very poor performance for either or both inserts and queries. The queries themselves are basic and can execute with no delay directly from mysql. The ruby script that I wrote is only 1 thread, so only 1 connection is being used, and never closed unless the script is terminated. Pretty basic, I am just trying to...

Is it possible to call a procedure within an SQL statement?

Hi everyone I thought I would use a stored routine to clean up some of my more complex SQL statements. From what I've read, it seems impossible to use a stored procedure within an sql statement, and a stored function only returns a single value when what I need is a result set. I am using mySQL v5.0 SELECT p.`id`, gi.`id` FROM `sport...

First site going live real soon. Last minute questions

I am really close to finishing up on a project that I've been working on. I have done websites before, but never on my own and never a site that involved user generated data. I have been reading up on things that should be considered before you go live and I have some questions. 1) Staging... (Deploying updates without affecting users)...

Looking for design/architecture suggestions for a simple HTML game.

Imagine that HTML page is a game surface (see picture). User can have n number of boards (blue divs) on his page. Each board can be moved, re-sized, relabeled, created new and removed. Inside each board there are m number of figures (purple divs). Each of these user can move inside the board or to another board, re-size, change color ...

displaying a group once in php mysql

I have some data like this : 1 TC1 PASS 2 TC2 FAIL 3 TC3 INCONC 4 TC1 FAIL 5 TC21 FAIL 6 TC4 PASS 7 TC3 PASS 8 TC2 FAIL 9 TC1 TIMEOUT 10 TC21 FAIL If I try the below code : <?php mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "pop") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("jpd") or die(mysql_error()); $oustandin...

Thumbnailing and then Saving as a Blob with PHP in Wordpress

The below code seems like it should work; however, the blob in the database only contains 0 after the function is run. Does the below code look accurate? If not how can I fix it? $tmpName = $_FILES['picture']['tmp_name']; $fp = fopen($tmpName, 'r'); $binary = fread($fp, filesize($tmpName)); fclose($fp); $originalImage = imagecre...

SQL Inner Join : DB stuck

I postet this question a few days ago but I didn't explain exactly what I want. I ask the question better formulated again: To clarify my problem I added some new information: I got an MySQL DB with MyISAM tables. The two relevant tables are: * orders_products: orders_products_id, orders_id, product_id, product_name, product_price, pr...

Mark duplicates in MySql with php (without deleting)

So, I'm having some problems with a MySQL query (see other question), and decided to try a different approach. I have a database table with some duplicate rows, which I actually might need for future reference, so I don't want to remove. What I'm looking for is a way to display the data without those duplicates, but without removing the...

MySQL : Selecting alternative field if given field is empty

Hi, I wonder if is it possible to run mysql command which can select an alternative field if the first given field is empty, on the same table. Example : I have table called "posts" which have "intro" and "content". In the same statement I would like to select as a result "content" if "intro" is empty, but not having both in the result ...

MySQL 5 multiple JOIN syntax not working in MySQL 4

Hello all, the current SQL query works fine locally on MAMP 1.8.4 running MySQL 5.1.37. SELECT EL.log_actions, EL.log_date, EL.log_value, EL.log_type, EA.admins_name, EU.users_name, EU.users_matric FROM events_log EL JOIN events_users EU USING (users_id) JOIN events_admins EA USING (admins_id...

Tomcat6 MySql JDBC Datasource configuration

I've always used Spring's dependency injection to get datasource objects and use them in my DAOs, but now, I have to write an app without that. With Spring I can write something like this: <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"> <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql...

MySQL Need help constructing query: join multiple tables into single row

Hello stackoverflowers, Forgive me if this question has been asked and answered, I've searched and found a few that look similar but I'm too much of a novice with SQL to adapt them to my needs. Also forgive me if I don't use the correct terminology, I know it can be annoying when someone asks a question and they don't even know enough t...

How to replace all instances of a particular value in a mysql database with another?

I'm looking for a MySQL equivalent of what str_replace is for PHP. I want to replace all instances of one word with another, I want to run a query that will replace all "apples" with "oranges". The reason why: UPDATE fruits SET name='oranges' WHERE name='apples'; isn't going to work for my situation, is because I often times have mult...

How to search a MySQL database for a specific string

I am trying to set up a search feature on my site that will only return exact matches to keyword entered by the user. So if the user searches "dog" I don't want an article titled "Doggy Style" to appear in the search results (just an example I don't really have an article by that name). This of course does exactly that: SELECT * FROM ar...

speed up a sql query to mysql?

in my mysql database i've got the geonames database, containing all countries, states and cities. i am using this to create a cascading menu so the user could select where he is from: country -> state -> county -> city. but the main problem is that the query will search through all the 7 millions rows in that table each time i want to ...

How to recover data from a table, and store that into list?

How can I get ALL the data from a table of my DB (mySQL) using hibernate, and store the output into List of Objects? I'll use this List, to populate a JTable. ...

Load a MySQL innodb database into memory

I have a MySQL innodb database at 1.9GB, showed by following command. SELECT table_schema "Data Base Name" , sum( data_length + index_length ) / 1 048 576 as "Data Base Size in MB" , sum( data_free )/ 1 048 576 as "Free Space in MB" FROM information_schema.TABLES GROUP BY table_schema ; +-------------------...