i'm trying to test an idea. i know what i sent doesn't do much, but i
try out ideas before i go too far to make sure i understand what i
think i do
in my 'real life' i work with oracle. i like the idea of explicitly
telling the database when i'm done. i want to be able to trap errors
and rollback if necessary. also to give someone the choice of saving
the work or not. i know there are things i can do to create the
similar effect,
create the sql, then when i'm ready submit it to the database.
i guess i'm trying to test the limits right now!
thanks for the input.
r
On 30 jul 2004, at 17.11, Rod K wrote:
You can find many resources to explain their purpose better than I can
do here.
To be honest, I can't see what you are trying to accomplish in your
script. If it's validation you should be using session variables to
store the input AND echoing what was inputed on the validation page.
reiner peterke wrote:
this is meant in all honesty,
then whats the point?!
ok, let me put it this way. is there no way to implement pages using
transactions?
otherwise it seems to kind of defeat the purpose of them.
r
On 30 jul 2004, at 16.57, Rod K wrote:
You are correct. You cannot have a transaction span multiple
pages/scripts.
reiner peterke wrote:
there seems to be very little info around on actually using
transactions with postgres. i've tried to create a page that will
take input from a form and insert it into my database. it works if
i just do it without transactions but when i try to use with the
begin and commit sections of code, it doesn't update the data base.
i'm guessing it is doing a rollback when my page loads itself
again. can anyone help me out here ?
thanks
r
code below
<html>
<head>
<submitle>those eyes</submitle>
</head>
<body>
<?
$conn = pg_connect("dbname=entish user=postgres");
if(!$conn)
{
print "not for the chocolate";
exit;
}
if ($_POST[submit]) {
$begin = pg_query("begin");
$isql = "insert into diety(diety,culture,gender)
values
('$_POST[diety]','$_POST[culture]','$_POST[gender]')";
printf("-- %s --\n",$isql);
$results = pg_query($isql);
?>
<form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF?>">
<input type="Submit" name="action" value="commit">
<input type="Submit" name="action" value="rollback">
</form>
<?
}
else if(!$_POST[action]) {
?>
<form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF?>">
Diety:<input type="text" name="diety"><br>
Culture:<input type="text" name="culture"><br>
Gender:<input type="text" name="gender"><br>
<input type="Submit" name="submit" value="enter">
</form>
<?
}
else {
if($_POST[action] == 'commit') {
echo "let me see";
$act = pg_query("commit");
}
else {
$act = pg_query("rollback");
}
} //end if $_POST[submit]
?>
</body>
</html>
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