I need a formula for showing results on my classifieds website. I am now done with the paging of records, but this formula for showing results remains. I want it like this: Showing 1-50 of 123 found. Now what is the formula for this? I have these variables which should be enough I think: $results_per_page = 50; //results per p...
Nothing technical here. Suppose I have a lot of different categorized data, and I would like to create a database out of it. Would someone literally hand plug in all that info with SQL code itself? Or do some people make a mock website just to input data? What are some of your strategies? ...
I have a query where the user types a block of text in a textarea field. They are able to save this information in a database. The problem is that if they have not changed the information or if the information matches the data already in the database, I recieve a '0' for affected rows. Usually I display an error that says the query faile...
Hi all, I have the following pages: page1.php, page2.php and page3.php. Code in each of them is as below CODE: page1.php <script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ $('#imgID').upload({ submit_to_url: "page2.php", file_name: 'myfile1', description : "Image", limit : 1, file_ty...
Hi guys, I'm doing a system for a hospital in my country as the final year project of my degree, my supervisor specially asked me to use php and mysql for this. i don't have any experience with distributed systems and php programming, can any one help me out to build my base and improove my knowledge stating some sites, books to refer t...
I am working on a webapplication How can i create SQL for the following Database Information User information Username - String Password - String Admin or Client - boolean Last login – Date/Time LogItem typeLogItem – String (Page name?) hitCount – int View PageURL UserID Transaction User – String DateTimeStamp SKU – int Purchase-bo...
How can I translate this SQL into a named_scope? Also, I want the total comments param to be passed through a lambda. "select users., count() as total_comments from users, comments where (users.id = comments.user_id) and (comments.public_comment = 1) and (comments.aasm_state = 'posted') and (comments.forum_user_id is null) group by user...
I have a table defined like this: create table users ( id int(10), age int(3), name varchar (50) ) I want to use a query to update just age, which is an integer, that comes from an html form. When it arrives to the method that updates it, it comes as a string, so I change it to integer with PHP and try to update the table, but ...
Hello! I'm curious if anyone could possibly help me, because I can't find anything exactly related to it anywhere, and it's driving me nuts. I'd like to have a dropdown list on a page, that will give the visitor the option to sort all entries by year. I have entries from i.e. 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010. The years should be displayed in the ...
I found the exact same question here. But it isn't working for me. I've modified it a bit, manipulated it, and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to remove rows that are over a day old. Here is my code: if (isset($_POST['prune'])) { $sql = "DELETE FROM logs WHERE time < date('now', '-1 days')"; mysql_query($sql); echo 'Log...
If you are familiar with Django, you know that they have a Authentication system with User model. Of course, I have many other tables that have a Foreign Key to this User model. If I want to delete this user, how do I architect a script (or through mysql itself) to delete every table that is related to this user? My only worry is that...
I have been trying to migrate a database from sybase to Mysql. This is my approach: Generate pojo classes from my sybase database using hibernate in eclipse Use these pojo classes to generate the schema in mysql database Then somehow migrate the data from sybase to mysql I guess this approach should work??? Please let me know if the...
Hi, I'm just wondering how I can retrieve a specific value (only 1 thing will be returned) from a database using php. My query is mysql_query("SELECT balance FROM users WHERE username = '". $this->username . "'") I'm just looking for it to retrieve the data from that row so I can save it directory into a variable. ...
I want to allow users as well as me(the admin) to delete data in mysql. I used to have remove.php that would get $_GETs from whatever that needed to be deleted such as... remove.php?action=post&posting_id=2. But I learned that anyone can simply abuse it and delete all my data. So what's the safest way for users and me to delete inform...
I'm inserting a record using PDO and saving the result in $result which I use as a boolean $result = $addRecord->execute(); if ($result){ //add successful } else { //add unsuccessful } I'd like to also get the record id just added. In the table, each record has an auto_incremented field called id. I tried doing this $new_id =...
I'm trying to add a record, and at the same time return the id of that record added. I read it's possible to do it with a RETURNING clause. $stmt->prepare("INSERT INTO tablename (field1, field2) VALUES (:value1, :value2) RETURNING id"); but the insertion fails when I add RETUR...
With Coldfuson & MySQL - How to update the query to check for new entries that have a timestamp that occurs in the last 24 hours? Query: <cfquery name="caller.sel_BlogEntries" datasource="#request.db#"> SELECT blogentry.dateAdded, person.personName FROM blogentry INNER JOIN person ON blogentry.personID = person.personID WHE...
In my goal to have a Many-to-Many relationship in my MySQL database I have arrived at another bridge to build. Current Tables: Users (id, name) Tags (id, name) User_Tags (user_id, tag_id) Here is the goal: I would like to have the ability to take a tag i.e: #fb and insert it into my Tags database which has a unique constraint on name a...
I changed from latin1 to utf8. Although all sorts of text was displaying fine I noticed non-english characters were stored in the database as weird symbols. I spent a day trying to fix that and finally now non-english characters display as non-english characters in the database and display the same on the browser. However I noticed that ...
Basic question, sorry. Basically, I have a script that creates a MySQL entry each time someone visits the page. A logging script. However, I want to make it autoprune after, say, 100 visits. For example in pseudo code: if amount of rows > 100 { delete rows 1+ until amount of rows == 100 } So in a nutshell, each time a new row is added...