Re: [PHP-DB] calling a page for each row

On 16/07/10 09:51, listread wrote:
> On 7/15/2010 6:42 PM, Chris wrote:
>> On 16/07/10 09:38, listread wrote:
>>> We need to load a page which performs some tasks specific to each
>>> record, including writing some results to another table.
>>>
>>> I have tried to place a page loading script within the while loop that
>>> creates the table, but it seems to only load the page on the last record
>>> in the table.
>>>
>>> Is there a better way to do this?
>>
>> Why does it need to call a page to do all the work? If it was just a
>> function call you'd be off and racing already.
>>
> The page I want to call is a little involved. It makes a geocode request
> from Google Maps and then parses the resulting json code and then writes
> the parsed data to another table. I guess it could be done with
> functions, but the other page was already written... :-)

I guess you could do a file_get_contents on the url of the page.

> If I call a function, will the while loop wait for the function to
> complete before going to the next row?

Yes.

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