hmm, I guess that would work. There is no way to have mySQL check for integrity for me is there? I read in a SQL book a while ago about wrapping multiple inserts in a select statement, that way if any part of the statement failed the whole thing would be rolled back. From my research though, it doesn't look like mySQL supports this. Am I right here? So far it looks like your idea could be the most reliable suggestions I've gotten, so I'll start working on that for now. Thanks. - Anthony Peter Beckman wrote: > Try this: > > $stack is an array of hashes: > > $stack[0] = array(0=>tablename, 1=>insertid()); > > For each insert you do, push an anonymous array on $stack which includes > the tablename and insertid of the insert. > > Then as you continue your inserts, if any of them fail, call a function > which takes that array $stack, and iterate through it, deleting the rows > you just inserted. (see mysql_insert_id() function to get the insert ID) > > If none of them do fail, then you are in the clear. Either unset $stack or > ignore it. > > Peter > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Anthony wrote: > > >>I have to drop a lot of data into mySQL from PHP. It will go into quite >>a few different tables. How can I maintain integrity of the entire >>insert? I need to do about a dozen inserts on four tables and I need to >>insure that all the inserts are successful or that none of them get >>done. I'm sort of new at this, so please help me out. Thanks. >> >>- Anthony >> >> >>-- >>PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation > beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
