Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/02/08 15:49

Aaron Gray wrote:
> "Paul Lautman" <paul.lautman@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:5u1c11F1fc5l6U1@mid.individual.net...
>> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>> "NC" <nc@iname.com> wrote in message
>>> news:292ed4c8-99da-427c-9685-6969a9e62783@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>> I do need to know whether it was an existin record or a new one and
>>> have concurrency. PHP does seem like better logic for this problem.
>> Well obviously you know best. Isn't it annoying that when you ask for help
>> all us experts give you the correct answer and you have to keep ignoring
>> us.
>
> I dont take this lightly, SQL may be the best way in the long run but for
> the initial prototype it is not, I have thought about it and PHP is the best
> solution at this time for the requirements I have.
>
>> Here's a thought, next time don't bother to ask for advice that you aren't
>> going to take. It'll save everyone's time.
>
> Sorry, I do take advice, but as I have not given full details of what I
> require and the requirments was to just clean up some PHP code on a PHP
> newsgroup it would be helpful if some nice person would help me with that.
>
> I have now looked at the PHP side of things and AFAICS all that was required
> was the 'mysql_num_rows()' function.
>

Thats what I generally check for myself.


> Thanks for your feedback, when I need scalable code I will move things over
> to the SQL side if that turns out the way to approach it. At the moment I
> just want a single PHP file program that is not too complex and has all or
> most of the logic encapsulated.
>

Yup. I agree.
> Cheers,
>
> Aaron
>
>

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