On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Allen McCabe <allenmcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a "PURGE ORDERS" link that calculates which orders are made up
> entirely of expired shows and deletes them. Well, that's idea anyhow.
>
> The procedure does 3 things:
>
> 1. Gets the order_id of all orders that contain all expired shows
> 2. Deallocates the quantity of the seats on each show from the show table
> (freeing up 'inventory')
> 3. Deletes the order from the order table and all associated entries on the
> line_item table.
>
> Well, it does the first step beautifully, but does not want to delete the
> table entries. The problem seems to be somewhere in:
>
>
> // CREATE STRING FROM $black_list[] array
> $expired_order_ids_str = implode($black_list, ', ');
>
> // UPDATE SHOW QUANTITIES - SUBTRACT SEATS
> $getshowsSQL = "SELECT * FROM afy_order_lineitem WHERE order_id IN
> ({$expired_order_ids_str})";
> $showsResult = mysql_query($getshowsSQL);
> while ($updateShow = mysql_fetch_array($showsResult))
> {
> $updatequantitySQL = "UPDATE afy_show SET show_seats_reqd =
> (show_seats_reqd - {$updateShow['quantity']}) WHERE show_id =
> {$updateShow['show_id']}";
> $updatequantityResult = mysql_query($updatequantitySQL);
> }
> mysql_free_result($showsResult);
>
> // UPDATE MYSQL
> $deleteSQL = "DELETE FROM afy_order WHERE order_id IN
> ({$expired_order_ids_str})";
> mysql_query($deleteSQL);
> $deleteSQL = "DELETE FROM afy_order_lineitem WHERE order_id IN
> ({$expired_order_ids_str})";
> $deleteResult = mysql_query($deleteSQL);
> if ($deleteResult)
> {
> $message = "<font color=\"#009900\">Orders successfully Purged!<br
> />(Order #'s deleted: {$expired_order_ids_str})</font>";
> }
> break;
>
> The works just fine, up until the // UPDATE MYSQL line. I am NOT getting the
> $message set, and the orders are NOT being deleted. Only the afy_show gets
> updated. Can anyone see an problem with this??
>
> Thanks!
>
If you echo out the statement and run it thru phpmyadmin or some other
db tool, does the statement work?
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