URLs with ampersands (&) screwing up my website database calls. [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 7 answers

Been banging my head against the wall on this the whole day. I need a way to select & sort data from a single MySQL table, but it's a little bit more complicated that it seems. [more inside]
posted on Nov 23, 2007 - 14 answers

From two MySQL tables, I need to fetch a list of customers who DOES NOT have an invoice issued to them within the past 2 months. More details about the table structures inside. [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2007 - 10 answers

Rather than updating the entire table every time a user updates a form (their profile page, for instance), I'd like the quickest way to detect ONLY the edited fields, and update those accordingly. [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2007 - 13 answers

I'm writing a small app to store my contacts. There's a little tool to search for names. When I search for "Jo", the results should display all names starting with "jo", followed by those with "jo" in the middle: 1. Joanna 2. John 3. Jonathan 4. Marjorie 5. Mojo How do I do this using a single SQL statement?
posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 14 answers

I am tasked with writing a web-based accounting software in PHP-MySQL. My background in accounting is minimal. I understand enough of debits & credits & transactions and such, but I'd like to find some resources which could help me in working out the programming workflow, database relationships, etc, ie the technical parts of developing such a system.
posted on Aug 6, 2005 - 14 answers