Re: Multiple Inserts with mySQL

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

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Peter Beckman            Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation
beckman@purplecow.com                             http://www.purplecow.com/

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