Write to mySQL database easily?

Hi-
I am currently a student just having some fun with the Flex
beta but as a student I do not have access to powerful corporate
networks or data services, etc. I have a lot of great ideas for
flex applications for clubs I am in, etc. but they all require
reading and writing to mySQL databases. So far I have only been
able to find 2 tutorials online about mySQL and Flex and I haven't
even been able to get the write part of those to work for some
reason.
But my general question is: How easy is it for someone to use
Flex (the free versions) to read and write to a mysql database
pretty frequently with some things that are a little more than just
basics (updating two tables are once for instance)? Is flex better
for read only applications for someone in my situation?
I would really appreciate some advice / insight from you more
experienced users so I know where to focus my time and energies.
Thank you!
-Dan

Furthermore, Flex is completely independent or the server
tier, and you can use almost any server-side platform you are
comfortable with.
I personally use ASP.NET and communicate with Flex using
HTTPService. I have also used classic ASP and JSP to do this.
ColdFusion also works well I am told.
Unless you buy FDS(Flex Data Services), you must choose
between RemoteObject, HTTPService or WebService as your transport
protocols, but that is a very wide selection of mostly standard
options.
Joaquin, what do you use with PHP?
Tracy

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Php/mysql: can't write to mysql database [SOLVED]

I'm writing a login script using php and mysql. I got it to work on my server about a week ago, and then I set up apache, php and mysql on my netbook so that I could take my code with me and test it. Now it doesn't work. My registration script doesn't write to the mysql database but has no errors. Here is register.php:
<?php
define("DB_SERVER", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "root");
define("DB_PASS", "swordfish");
define("DB_NAME", "users");
define("TBL_USERS", "users");
$connection = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
function addUser($username, $password)
global $connection;
$password = md5($password);
echo("adding $username,$password<br />");
$q = "INSERT INTO " . TBL_USERS . " VALUES ('$username', '$password')";
echo("query: $q<br />");
$result = mysql_query($q, $connection);
echo("$result<br />");
if (isset($_POST["reg"]))
addUser($_POST["username"], $_POST["password"]);
echo("<a href='index.php'>click here to login</a>");
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Register</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="Post" name="login">
<input type="text", name="username" /> Username<br />
<input type="text", name="password" /> Password<br />
<input type="submit" name="reg", value="Register" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
and here is the output (without the form):
adding lexion,6f1ed002ab5595859014ebf0951522d9
query: INSERT INTO users VALUES ('lexion', '6f1ed002ab5595859014ebf0951522d9')
Also, I tried manually adding the content to the database:
$ mysql -p -u root
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 9
Server version 5.1.42 Source distribution
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql> users
-> INSERT INTO users VALUES('lexion', 'foo')
-> ^D
-> Bye
I would assume that I got something wrong with the last bit, but the php script seems like it should work. Does anybody know why it doesn't?
Last edited by Lexion (2010-01-10 19:04:15)

What is wrong with your PHP? Why do you think it is failing? An INSERT query doesn't return anything. Also, it's a good idea to specify which fields you are inserting into, unless you want to have to provide something for every field (tedious for tables with many fields with default values). eg:
$q = "INSERT INTO `" . TBL_USERS . "`(`username`, `password`) VALUES ('$username', '$password')";
As for your experiment with the mysql prompt; queries have to end with a semicolon. PHP is nice and hides that little detail from you.
edit: Also, you're echoing text out before the HTML starts. That won't produce valid HTML. I also noticed a few other things which I corrected; look at my comments:
<?php
define("DB_SERVER", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "root");
define("DB_PASS", "swordfish");
define("DB_NAME", "users");
define("TBL_USERS", "users");
$connection = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
function addUser($username, $password)
global $connection;
$password = md5($password);
// echo("adding $username,$password<br />"); - Don't echo stuff before HTML starts.
// Also, clean up user-supplied data before plugging it into a query unless you want to be vulnerable to SQL injection.
$cleanusername = mysql_real_escape_string($username, $connection);
$cleanpassword = mysql_real_escape_string($password, $connection); // Obviously you'd generally use some hashing algorithm like md5 or sha1 for passwords
$q = "INSERT INTO `" . TBL_USERS . "`(`username`, `password`) VALUES ('{$cleanusername}', '{$cleanpassword}')"; // The backticks tell MySQL not to interpret any text within as a keyword (good for field names, eg a field called `date`. The curly brackets tell PHP that the stuff within refers to a variable; it's nice as PHP knows exactly what the variable name is with no possible ambiguity.
// echo("query: $q<br />");
$result = mysql_query($q, $connection);
// echo("$result<br />"); - This won't do anything; in addition to INSERT queries not returning anything, the $result variable doesn't contain the results of the query, it's a pointer to them for use with mysql_result().
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Register</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (isset($_POST["reg"]))
addUser($_POST["username"], $_POST["password"]);
echo("<a href='index.php'>click here to login</a>");
?>
<form method="Post" name="login">
<input type="text" name="username" /> Username<br />
<input type="text" name="password" /> Password<br />
<input type="submit" name="reg" value="Register" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_close($connection); // Not strictly needed, as PHP will tidy up for you if you forget.
?>
Last edited by Barrucadu (2010-01-10 17:34:20)

Unable to write to MySQL database

hi all,
I'm currently having a problem writing to my MySQL database. Everything is setup correctly and I'm able to read from it. I'm writing a simple enough java application and have no idea why it wont write to it. All insert statements etc are correct aswell. Anybody have any ideas why?

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Well before, the Planner.pdf was originally created in Word, since most people have access to Word.. but evolved to a PDF form created from the Word Doc via Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.0 w/ User Rights enabled so that the form could be filled out and saved using Adobe Reader.. which was a step better than Word.. being that it is free. But this needed to be easier and more to the point b/c some clients don't particularly like installing the latest version of Reader, even if you provide them the link. Nor do they like saving the form, filling the form, and attaching the form to send back.
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First some background.
I have a website that has outgrown its designed dimensions and is a huge burden to maintain. See PPBM5 Benchmark
There is a lot of maintenance work involved, so I'm investigating a PHP/MySQL approach to easen the burden and to add functionality to the site. With the current Excel based structure and over 420 entries, it is cumbersome for me to maintain, but also for users to find what they need.
A MySQL based dynamic structure is a lot easier and offers vastly more selection capabilities, like selecting only records that meet specific criteria.
Data submission is done with a form, that contains most of the relevant data, but the drawack is that people submitting their data are often not technically inclined, give wrong answers due to a lack of understanding or making typo's. The test results are attached in one or two separate .txt files, but often they have not read the instructions correctly or did something wrong, so these attached .txt files can not be trusted automatically, they have to be checked before inclusion.
These were my initial thoughts:
1. Data collection:
To avoid spending all our energy and time on correcting typo's, getting missing data, correcting errors, I am investigating the use of CPU-Z in Ghost mode to create a .txt or .html file that contains all relevant hardware info we need and even more. It gives all the info we currently have, but adds data like number of memory sticks, DDR timings, stock clock speed and BCLK setting, video card info and VRAM size, etc.
To see what I mean, run CPU-Z, go to the About tab and press the Save Report button and look at the results.
This can all be done without user intervention in an automatic way, but maybe I need to add an Auto-It file to the test to make it all run as desired.
If this works and I'm able to extract the relevant data from the created file and can insert it into the database, we may be in business for the next version of PPBM5.5 or PPBM6. It does require a modification to the instructions, making them a lot easier, because there is less data to fill out.
2. Data submission:
The submission form can be simplified if the CPU-Z data can be used. We have to create an automatic way to attach the created .html file from CPU-Z to the submission form and we have to streamline the Output.txt and Output-MPE.txt files to be more easily included in the 'form.lib.php' file. It currently is manual labor and very time consuming.
3. Adding to Database:
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Queries should be possible on things like CPU (check box), so include 17-920, i7-930, i7-950 but exclude i7-980X and i7-990X, Size of memory (check box), Overclocked (boolean, yes, no), SSD as OS disk, and similar options.
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I have this table, that needs to be filled with data in the submitted and attached files. Mr. X submitted his data and can be uniquely identified by his "Ref_ID". He attached one or two files in .TXT format with the relevant test data. These files are stored on the server with a concatenated name:
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Graphically,
is what I want to achieve.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy
http://www.youtube.com/user/betterphp
http://www.youtube.com/user/flashbuilding
And many more on my channel here
http://www.youtube.com/user/Whisperingonthewind
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I just joining to a new work field, almost about a database and i know "NOTHING" about this field.
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David

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http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Database/JDBC20Intro/JDBC20.html
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Hi All,
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SetUp:
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I have a MySQL database setup on a windows server 2008, both are on the company network and accessible to internal employees only.
Problem Statement:
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I have a stored procedure which was doing this but from one Oracle Schema to another, which is running fine, now I need to use the same stored procedure but read from one database (Oracle) and write to another database (MySQL), is there a way to do this through the stored procedure, I know I can write a java program to do this, but need to do it through a stored procedure.
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c5b4a91d-d35a-43ba-ac96-6d1821541d33 wrote:
Hi All,
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SetUp:
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I have a MySQL database setup on a windows server 2008, both are on the company network and accessible to internal employees only.
Problem Statement:
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Hi,
SAP System in which DBCO entry is maintained is running on which OS Platform ?
Required DLL (DBMSSSLIB.DLL) has been put in SAP Instance's Kernel executable directory (If SAP system is running on Windows platform)?
Have you referred this Useful [SAP Note 323151 - Several DB connections with Native SQL|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/323151] and [SAP Note 738371 - Creating DBCON multiconnect entries for SQL Server|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/738371] ? Read them and do the required configuration settings if any one is missing.
As per SAP Note 738371,
The application server(s) where a DBCON connection is used must be running Windows,
and they must have the MS SQL Server DBSL library dbmssslib.dll installed in the run directory (/sapmnt/<SAPSID>/exe).
If your database platform is not SQL Server, then this DLL must be downloaded from the SAP Service Marketplace for your R/3 kernel version.
Regards,
Bhavik G. Shroff

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