Re: Noobie starting to learn OOP for databases needs help

From: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:12:57 +0000
Subject: Re: Noobie starting to learn OOP for databases needs help
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:38 AM, dealTek <dealtek@gmail.com> wrote: > Noobie starting to learn oop for databases from here: Cool. :) > mysql_insert_id (depricated?) or mysqli_insert_id() (I am using mySql 5.3) The mysqli version would be preferred, since you're using mysqli in that class. > 2 - how does one do aggrigate select queries like "SELECT SUM(price) FROM mytable" > ... what I tried seemed to fail... Problem there is that the query method forces everything through prepare, and you don't have a preparable statement. I'd write another method for such single values where you won't sent it through prepare/execute/bind, and just suck in the value and return it.

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