Hi, This is a reply to an email exchange with Manuel that I think is of general interest to the list I was talking about some additions that have come out of...
I have managed to (finally) make a connection and establish some queries with an Access db I am using with the following code part: //defineDSN based db setup ...
Manuel Thanks for reply, apols for no earlier response, as doing this dev part time as a partimer on php at moment. Have tried your suggestion, but still not...
Hello, ... The database name is set with MetabaseSetDatabase and not with MetabaseSetupDatabase. ... Yes, that means the IncludePath may be missing. ... You...
Manuel Thanks for reply, apols for no earlier response, as doing this dev part time as a partimer on php at moment. Have tried your suggestion, but still not...
Lukas, If you are ready for testing we got no such announcement, and will now do so. As much as I and the other binarycloud developers can support you in this ...
alex black
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Mar 17, 2002 5:58 pm
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That is an interesting question :-) I have made several releases (www.dybnet.de/metapear ... and go grab metapear.zip) and I asked for feedback and got close...
Great to hear that some people care :-) Again I also think that this merger is both worthwhile and important. Doing finishing this to be point of being...
... Cool, in CVS on Monday. All (be people): I'm going to put up a testing RFC for this stuff... anyone interested in taking it? ... Cool. ... There is as...
Alex Black
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Mar 17, 2002 7:39 pm
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... Have a look at Smarty 2.0 <http://phpinsider.com>. They do this and it works brilliantly (but then what else do you expect when it's coded by Monte and...
... be ... think ... because ... stuff ... Actually I think if we find a nice solution to separate metapear into packages then I think metapear can very well...
... I agree. Though I think there will always be a (small) speed hit for the proper datatype abstraction/translation. Which is of course fine with me because...
Alex Black
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Mar 17, 2002 8:28 pm
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... it ... you ... ok, I will look at it ... should ... ability ... I am talking about fetching single cells or rows instead of the entire result set at once ...
Hi, do you know anything about the internals of smarty? After briefly taking a look, it seems to me their on demand works because they only have one function...
... I thought that most of our database commands were only one function? ... Yes, keeping the most used functions in the original file and dynamically loading...
... I'll give you the ones I can think of right now. For lazy programmers: If you don't want to bother with quoting, prepare is really nice. You don't have to...
Stig S. Bakken
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Mar 18, 2002 9:42 am
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Hello Lukas, Sorry for the delay, I have a backlog of messages from you to reply that I did not do before because I am working really hard to bring up tens of ...
Hi all, good news Today I applied for a CVS account and Stig promised I would get it :-) So I will soon put metapear into the PHP CVS. At the same time I have...
Well ideally the user does not have to choose anything but only use what method he/she pleases. I think that is the goal we are trying to accomplish. I would...
... yourself, ... Aeh how so? I am aware of the problem of possible "tainted" data but where does the data get handled differently from a "normal" query? Best...
... It is handled differently because all the right quoting is done behind the scenes (either because the DB driver quotes for you, or because it uses some...
Stig S. Bakken
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Mar 20, 2002 12:06 am
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... $_POST ... the ... quoting ... Ah well ... You mean because you can employ different placeholders like '?' and '!'. Well this sort of thing is a thing of...
... Aha! We're misunderstanding eachother, I'm talking about escaping special characters in data before embedding it in the query. As for types, yes you're...
Stig S. Bakken
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Mar 20, 2002 9:51 am
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... ampersands ... of ... Well metabase can do both. Metabase has internal datatypes that it maps to RDBMS specific datatypes. These datatypes are used for...
... Does Metabase have this information because of the XML table definition files, or does it retrieve it from the database? - Stig...
Stig S. Bakken
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Mar 20, 2002 6:21 pm
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It has to be provided by the user. Lukas Smith smith@... _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany...
... Yes. God I love that. :) ... Metabase allows a set of types: integer, text, boolean, date, timestamp, time, float, decimal, clob, blob those you specify in...
Alex Black
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Mar 20, 2002 6:30 pm
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Well currently you do something like QuerySet* (for exampple QuerySetInteger) for every placeholder in your prepared query. I have extended this to a method...