PHP Tips and Tricks

[mrmajic]

another thing .. i have a logins table .. and its set to 15 .. and everything i run this line:

$updateplayer="update players set logins=$logins-1 where name='$player'";


it minus's 1 login from the table ,.. what am i doing wrong .. it doesnt work... should this line work?

[hallsofvallhalla]

logins is not a variable, take out the $

$updateplayer="update players set logins=logins-1 where name='$player'";

also i am assuming you have the query line on the next line?

[mrmajic]

oh yeah . .. the query line .. now it works first it was forgetting ; and } now its the query line ..

[mrmajic]

so whats the cons to using $_SESSION's to hold all ya variables.. ??

[Noctrine]

They are all in sessions. What happens when someone clears them.

[mrmajic]

theonly way to clear sessions from the users point is to logout/close brower .. they only have to log back in .. as long as ya updating the database with the current $_SESSION['variable'], then its ok isnt it??

[Noctrine]

A session is still a cookie. You can delete individual cookies in the browser quite easily.

[xezero]

this is a good read for those trying to squeeze the extra performance out of php:

http://www.phpbench.com/