Posts tagged with “EasyPDO”

Using SELECT in a MySQL INSERT Command

I wrote recently about using JOIN when needing to incorporate a lookup in a MySQL delete command. What if one needs to do the same when inserting into a table instead? This time it’s SELECT to the rescue. Imagine we have a simple bookmarking function that stores a user id and article id in a […]

Using JOIN in a MySQL DELETE Command

Deleting from a table is simple enough. If, for example, we wanted to remove all the comments from a single user and we already know that user’s id we could run this command (employing the EasyPDO library in PHP): <?php $db->ExecuteSQL(“DELETE FROM comments WHERE user_id=?”,”i”,$id); ?> Now imagine we only have the user’s email and […]