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

On 7/15/2010 8:03 PM, Chris wrote:
> 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.
>
I'll see if I can imbed the page as functions...