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When saving to a model, created and modified aren't automatically populated by CakePHP. Using SQL Server

Hi when saving to a model, my created and modified fields aren't automatically populated by CakePHP. It was automatically populated when I was using MySQL but now it isn't. I'm not using NOW() back when I was still using MySQL. Why is it? Also when a field's value is not set 'NULL' (with quotes) is inserted causing errors because SQL Ser...

Automated URL checking from a MySQL table

Okay, I have a list of URLs in a MySQL table. I want the script to automatically check each link in the table for 404, and afterward I want it to store whether the URL was 404'd or not, as well as store a time for last checked. Is this even possible to do automatically, even if no one runs the script? ie, no one visits the page for a fe...

Acquiring Table Lock in Database - Interview Question

One of my interview Questions, if multiple users across the world are accessing the application, in which it uses a Table which has a Primary Key as Auto Increment Field. The Question how can you prevent the other user getting the Same Primary key when the other user is executing? My answer was I will obtain the Lock on the table and I...

How transaction level isolation affects performace in autocommit mode in MySQL?

Hello. I have a VBulletin 4.x forum running on my server. Some forum tables were converted into InnoDB for performance reasons according to this instruction. Forum itself does not use transactions (no START TRANSACTION or BEGIN WORK in source code) at all and InnoDB tables are used just to prevent tables from locking on UPDATE queries. ...

Syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in PHP

mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); mysql_select_db("hitnrunf_db"); $result=mysql_query("select * from jos_users INTO OUTFILE 'users.csv' FIELDS ESCAPED BY '""' TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' "); header("Content-type: text/plain"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=your_desired_name.xls")...

Crystal Report: Missing Parameter Values

Hi! I am new to Crystal report, application is in ASP.net 3.5 and MySQL 5.1, going to develop report between dates like from date and to date, first page of report is shown good but when i tried to navigate on another page i got error like Missing Parameter Values same error i got in Printing and Export action Thanks in advance public p...

MySQL table export to HTML

Hi all, I've got a little problem with exporting MySQL data to html. The problem is that in one field i have values like this: <a href="http://google.com"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; and when i export the table in html format the generated html table for this fields contains: &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Google&amp;lt;/a&...

Php mysqli and stored-procedure

I have a stored procedure: Create procedure news(in dt datetime,in title varchar(10),in desc varchar(200)) Begin Insert into news values (dt,title,desc); End Now my php: $db = new mysqli("","","",""); $dt = $_POST['date']; $ttl = $_POST['title']; $desc = $_POST['descrip']; $sql = $db->query("CALL news('$dt','$ttl','$desc')"); if($s...

Need some tips on create table.

Hi I plan to create a tale to store the race result like this, Place RaceNumber Gender   Name  Result 12 0112 Male Mike Lee 1:32:40 16 0117 Female Rose Marry 2:20:40 I confused at the items type definiation. Q1.I am not sure the result can ...

how to use two forms and sumit once

hey guys is it possible to have two forms with two submit buttons but when i click on the button then it saves both forms input fields im concerning to solve this in php /mysql i tried my own way : if ((isset($_POST["form-1"])) && (isset($_POST["form-2"])) { //SQL Insertion } thanks in advance ...

MySQL: searh by host name in field containing urls

Hello! I have this database table: id | url ----------------------------------------- 1 | http://stackoverflow.com/ 2 | http://www.google.com 3 | http://example.com/somepage 4 | https://another.net?id=88 5 | http://hello.org/index.php?hello=2 6 | http://google.com?q=hello+world I need to search all fields, where URL belo...

Is passing a Command object/Reader to a function a good idea?

I've been getting some inexplicable errors (running out of connections from the connection pool) with MySql database with .Net 4 (C#). Till now all my attempts at finding a reason for this have been in vain. Now I also have a situation in which a lock on a table is not cleared for a long time even though all I have been doing is read ope...

How to use SQL - INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE?

Hi, I have a script which captures tweets and puts them into a database. I will be running the script on a cronjob and then displaying the tweets on my site from the database to prevent hitting the limit on the twitter API. So I don't want to have duplicate tweets in my database, I understand I can use 'INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE...

MySQL rollback when auto_commit is on

Hi, by mistake I fired an update query and all the records in the table in dat field got updated and also cannot rollback as auto_commit is on. Is there any other way to retrieve the records? Please help, its urgent. Thanks in advance. ...

Connecting to hosted MySQL server with Java

Hi, I've been recently trying to connect to a hosted MySQL using Java but can't get it to work. I can connect to a local MySQL with localhost using: connect = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/lego?" + "user=******&password=*******"); (Replacing the astrisks withmy username and password) I can conne...

PHP and MySQL validating problem

I'm trying to check if a color is already entered into the database if it is the color should not be entered and stored into the database and the following error code <p>This color has already been entered!</p> should be displayed. But for some reason I cant get this to work, can someone please help me? The color names are entered into ...

How to store data which contains quotes in MySQL

In one of my forms I use the rich text editor from Yahoo!. Now i want to store the data from that textarea in a MySQL database. The user can enter anything in that textarea, e.g. many double or single quotes. How can I store that data? Normally we store by adding that data in one variable and then put that in sql, but the quotes cause...

MySQL Left Join using key1 or key2

I want to be able to use multiple keys to join two tables. Is the following possible? SELECT * FROM items LEFT JOIN issues USING (item_id OR order_id) This is a simplified version of what i am doing. using MySQL 5.1.36 in case that matters. UPDATE: I want all the issues joined, using item_id or order_id. So there could be multiple is...

count and fetch rows in php

hey guys i have a table in my mysql database named (names) now everyone can save their real names now i want to query this table and find out how many times these names used forexample the output should be : Jakob (20) Jenny (17) now this is my own code : list($usernames) =mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SELECT name F...

mysql to xls sheet genration problemI(getting html code along with records ,unable get column names)

<?php if($_POST['Submit']=='Generatexml') { $tblname=$_GET['genratexml']; //mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); //mysql_select_db("hitnrunf_db"); global $obj_mysql; $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_js_login"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $csv_output .= "$row[fld_id],$row[fld_fname],$row[f...