Hi
You may try sending multiple query with one mysql_query() function call
via seperating by ";".
Regards.
-Cafer
Prş, 2005-07-21 tarihinde 10:02 -0400 saatinde, Jim Moseby yazdı:
> >
> > Jim Moseby wrote:
> > >>Im using mysql with PHP4, whats the best way to insert as
> > many as 20
> > >>records at one time from a form?
> > >>
> > >>Currently im just assigning each one a variable but that is
> > messy and
> > >>takes ages, is their a way to loop over the array of form data then
> > >>maybe do the same to enter it into a database?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > >
> > > A generic question begs a generic answer:
> > >
> > > foreach($formdata as $thisdata){
> > > $result=mysql_query("insert into ... values($thisdata)
> > where ...");
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Hope this helps, but it would be useful to have code
> > examples, etc so that a
> > > more relevant answer could be rendered.
> > >
> > > JM
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, your example demonstrates what i was doing but
> > does that do a MySQL query for every piece of data?
> > So 20 form values would be 20 db queries, would that not
> > consume a lot
> > of resources?
> > Is their another way?
> >
>
> As far as I know, there is no way to insert 20 unique rows of data into a
> MySQL table without executing 20 queries. Maybe someone else here does(?).
> Perhaps drop a note over on the MySQL list, since this is really more an SQL
> question than PHP. Sorry I couldn't help.
>
> JM
>
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