Re: [PHP-DB] Please help a newbie: Fixed

Ok, figured it out.
I was using an int for the field but the value was too large for it. I
used bigint instead and life is suddenly so much better. Well it helps
that its bright and sunny here too :)

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM, mrfroasty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try using var_export() or var_dump() to debug to see why that 1st time is
> having different values than what you want.... :-)
> The idea from the sample code I have provided is not to use phone as id...
>
> P:S
> A wild guess would phone is some sort of string.....
>
> GR
> mrfroasty
>
>
>
> Rij wrote:
>>
>> Ok. But that still doesn't tell me why I am getting the behavior from
>> my code. Where is the garbage value coming from? And why only the
>> first time I do an INSERT?
>>
>> To Daniel Carrera, thanks for your tip. I sure will look up your
>> suggestion.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:32 AM, mrfroasty <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> May be try something like this:
>>>
>>> $query1=
>>> CREATE TABLE contacts(
>>> id int(16) NOT NULL auto_increment,
>>> phone varchar(15)  NOT NULL,
>>> name varchar(15) NOT NULL,
>>> address varchar(15) NOT NULL,
>>> PRIMARY KEY (id)
>>> );
>>>
>>> $query2 = "INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ('NULL','$phone', '$name',
>>> '$address')";
>>>
>>> P:S
>>> id incremented automatically by MYSQL now
>>>
>>> GR
>>> mrfroasty
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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