Op 2/11/10 10:51 PM, James McLean schreef:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Joseph Thayne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, the syntax is just fine. I personally would prefer it the way you
>> mention, but there actually is nothing wrong with the syntax.
>>
>>> The ,'$date1'"." is not correct syntax, change it to ,'".$date."'
>
> My personal preference these days is to use Curly braces around
> variables in strings such as this, I always find excessive string
> concatenation such as is often used when building SQL queries hard to
> read, and IIRC there was performance implications to it as well
> (though I don't have access to concrete stats right now).
>
> In your case, the variable would be something like this:
>
> $query="INSERT INTO upload_history (v_id,hour,visits,date) VALUES
> ({$v_id}, {$hour}, {$visits}, '{$date}')";
actually IIRC the engine compiles that to OpCodes that equate to:
$query = 'INSERT INTO upload_history (v_id,hour,visits,date) VALUES ('.$v_id.',
'.$hour.', '.$visits.', '\''.{$date}.'\')';
>
> Much more readable and maintainable IMO.
>
> No need for the trailing semicolon in SQL that uses an API like you
> are using so save another char there too.
> Backticks around column names are not required and IMO again they just
> make the code hard to read. Just because phpMyAdmin uses them, doesn't
> mean we all need to.
>
> Cheers
>
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