Re: WHERE problem

From: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:45:06 +0000
Subject: Re: WHERE problem
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WHERE id > 0 would take care of that. Or, better yet, SEPARETE your 'id' field from your 'approved' field and don't try to be cheap with a one-byte (or even one-bit in some DBs) field. Over-loading the data field definition with dual meaning almost always turns into a problem down the line, in my experience. [Apologies if this has been said -- I'm having email threading issues at the moment...] On Tue, February 20, 2007 3:59 pm, Mike Shanley wrote: > The reason I didn't go with the suggestions for this approach is that > I > want to accept new submissions to the database whose default id = 0. > Thus, I can moderate them on the way in by giving them non-0 numbers. > (I've changed the database row count call to fit the implementation > since my posting of the code.) > > Thanks to everyone! > > tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote: >> Different strokes for different folks... >> >> Might I toss a new recommendation into the mix? >> >> SELECT text FROM fortunes ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; >> > -- > Mike Shanley > > ~you are almost there~ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?

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