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Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page

From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page
Date 2014-11-05 23:00 -0500
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On 11/5/2014 7:23 PM, James Harris wrote:
> I am looking for a good way to pull ad-hoc info from a database into a web 
> page. By "good" I mean a way that is efficient for the server and convenient 
> for the person writing the web page. Some of the ad-hoc info will be 
> scalars. Some will be lists and, possibly, some will be tabular. Is there 
> already a standard way to do things like this?
> 
> It's been a whiile since I used PHP but from a quick look it seems it may be 
> best to define a number of functions to retrieve and echo data. A call to 
> the scalar function would be something like
> 
>   scalar_get("key")
> 
> where the key uniquely identifies a cell in a table. The subroutine would 
> just echo the result into the output html that gets sent to the web browser. 
> Is that reasonable and is there a way to make the subroutine efficient given 
> that there may be many scalar_get() calls in the body of the page?
> 
> James
> 
> 

First of all, there is not "cell" in a SQL database table.  You get one
or more rows, and can select columns from that row.  If you have a
primary key, you will get a single row back by selecting on that key.

As for getting multiple rows - I normally select all rows of interest,
and display them in a loop.  That is much more efficient than retrieving
multiple rows based on the selection criteria used to retrieve the
primary keys.

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Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 00:23 +0000
  Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-06 04:54 +0100
    Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-06 09:19 -0500
      Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 15:39 +0000
        Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-06 11:32 -0500
          Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-11-26 10:26 +0100
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-11-26 09:38 +0000
              Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-11-26 11:56 +0100
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-26 07:51 -0500
              Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-11-26 14:24 +0100
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-26 08:36 -0500
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-26 10:21 -0500
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-11-26 20:57 +0100
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-26 16:21 -0500
        Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-06 18:27 +0100
    Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 15:58 +0000
      Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-06 21:34 +0100
  Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-05 23:00 -0500
    Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 15:29 +0000
      Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-06 10:44 -0500
        Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 16:15 +0000
          Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-06 11:25 -0500
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-06 12:42 -0500
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-08 13:50 +0100
              Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-08 21:19 -0500
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-08 22:08 -0500
                Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-09 08:09 +0100
          Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-06 18:24 +0100
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-06 12:37 -0500
            Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-11-06 17:51 +0000
              Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-06 20:56 +0100
      Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-06 12:40 -0500
      Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page richard <noreply@example.com> - 2014-11-10 11:17 -0500
        Re: Pulling ad-hoc data from a database into a PHP web page Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-10 21:27 +0000

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