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Wamp wamp

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:37:39 +0000

With the lunch of the 4th edition of the “Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL” book, the SitePoint team starts by offering a superb free tutorial on installing the WAMP platform.

WampServer (where Wamp stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) is a free, all-in-one program that includes built-in copies of recent versions of the Apache web server, PHP, and MySQL.

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MySQL String Replace

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:16:28 +0000

There is common problem I have when working with large user ganereted databases. Sometimes the forms that you provide ofr the users are not self-explanatory, and the whrong kind of data gets into the databse, the kind that you don’t expect. This time I provided a filed for the user’s personal websites, and some of them didn’t provide the entire path, that is www.thecssbug.com instead of the http://www.thecssbug.com. As you know if you provide a link like this:


The Css Bug

the browser will not interpret if correctly. The solution in my case (appart from a form change) is a SQL Mass Replace.


UPDATE userProfile SET webSite = REPLACE(webSite,"www.","http://www.")  WHERE webSite LIKE "%www%" and webSite NOT LIKE "http%"

In general:


UPDATE table_name SET column_name = REPLACE(column_name,"original_string","replace_string")

Reset autoincrement value in a mysql table

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:09:00 +0000

Use the following SQL command:

ALTER TABLE table_name AUTO_INCREMENT = new_value