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Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 02/01/06 00:23
On 31 Jan 2006 07:44:15 -0800, "Jeff" <joesiege@gmail.com> wrote:
>What's the best practice for handling the following situation, when I
>do an update like this:
>
>$sql = "UPDATE haha SET papa="loco" WHERE id=$var";
>$res = mysql_query($sql,$db);
>
>If I don't get a match in my where clause, i.e., 12!=44 the UPDATE does
>not occur but mysql_errno == 0 and mysql_error = "" so I can't capture
>the failure.
>
>Any thoughts?
Two. Do a select to count how many rows might need to be updated
before doing the update and remember that there's a
comp.databases.mysql group.
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gburnore at DataBasix dot Com
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