On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Miller,
Terion<tmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 6/30/09 10:40 AM, "Bastien Koert" <phpster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Ashley
> Sheridan<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 15:42:01 Miller, Terion wrote:
>>> Okay, what I am trying to do is this:
>>>
>>> I have a db full of inspections, daily I need to run a script that will
>>> grab the posting of inspections, check them against the db to make sure
>>> they aren't duplicates and then insert all the new entries..... Not sure if
>>> my logic of going about it this way is right, or if I'm off track and need
>>> to be doing something different please advise...so far this is how I am
>>> writing it.....and it seems redundant ... Shouldn't there be a way to say
>>> (in plain speak) if there are no records with the name== insert this one,
>>> if there is one with the name then check intype if none ..insert... Etc
>>>
>>>
>>> if (!empty($Go)) {
>>>
>>> $query = "SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE name LIKE '$ucName'";
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query ($query);
>>>
>>> $row = mysql_fetch_object ($result);
>>>
>>>
>>> If (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
>>>
>>> $sql = "INSERT INTO `restaurants` (name, address, inDate, inType, notes,
>>> critical, cviolations, noncritical) VALUES (";
>>>
>>> $sql .= " '$ucName', '$ucAddress', '$inDate', '$inType', '$notes',
>>> '$critical', '$cleanViolations', '$noncritical')";
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
>>>
>>>
>>> } else {
>>>
>>> $query = "SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE inType LIKE '$inType' AND name
>>> LIKE '$ucName' ";
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query ($query);
>>>
>>> $row = mysql_fetch_object ($result);
>>>
>>> If (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
>>>
>>> $sql = "INSERT INTO `restaurants` (name, address, inDate, inType, notes,
>>> critical, cviolations, noncritical) VALUES (";
>>>
>>> $sql .= " '$ucName', '$ucAddress', '$inDate', '$inType',
>>> '$notes', '$critical', '$cleanViolations', '$noncritical')";
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
>>>
>>>
>>> } else {
>>>
>>> $query = "SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE inDate LIKE '$inDate' AND name
>>> LIKE '$ucName' ";
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query ($query);
>>>
>>> $row = mysql_fetch_object ($result);
>>>
>>>
>>> If (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
>>>
>>> $sql = "INSERT INTO `restaurants` (name, address, inDate, inType, notes,
>>> critical, cviolations, noncritical) VALUES (";
>>>
>>> $sql .= " '$ucName', '$ucAddress', '$inDate', '$inType',
>>> '$notes', '$critical', '$cleanViolations', '$noncritical')";
>>>
>>>
>>> $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
>>>
>>>
>>> }
>>> }
>>
>> It's a bad way of doing it, but could you not create a unique index on the
>> particular key you want to be unique, and then just try the select anyway
>> with the mysql_query() call preceeded with an @ to suppress warnings?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>>
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
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>>
>
> Does this list of inspections exist in the db? Could you not use an
> INSERT INTO SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE type statement...much less
> processing overhead then
>
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>
> Bastien
>
> Cat, the other other white meat
>
> Hi Bastien,
>
> Something like this is what you mean?
>
> if (!empty($Go)) { $query = "SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE name = '$ucName' AND address = '$ucAddress' AND inDate ='$inDate' AND inType = '$inType' "; $result = mysql_query ($query); $row = mysql_fetch_object ($result); If (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) { $sql = "INSERT INTO `restaurants` (name, address, inDate, inType, notes, critical, cviolations, noncritical) VALUES ("; $sql .= " '$ucName', '$ucAddress', '$inDate', '$inType', '$notes', '$critical', '$cleanViolations', '$noncritical')"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); } So if all three things are met, that entry is in there if not insert right?
>
More like
sql = "insert into restaurants select * from restaurants where name =
'$ucName' AND address = '$ucAddress' AND inDate ='$inDate' AND inType
= '$inType' ";
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-select.html
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