example:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_excerpt = ”

INSERT INTO wp_users
(id,user_login,user_pass,user_email,display_name)
VALUES
(’5′,’uniqueusername’,md5(‘pass’),’uniqueusername@ourcompany.com’,'uniqueusername’);

// to note, this below is simultaneously a nice example of how to insert multiple rows with one MySQL INSERT statement

INSERT INTO wp_usermeta
(user_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES
(’5′,’wp_capabilities’,'a:1:{s:6:”author”;s:1:”1″;}’),
(’5′,’wp_user_level’,’10′);

Thus, the full script looks something like this:

$employees = array(‘employee1@somesite.com’,'employee2@somesite.com’,'employee3@somesite.com’,'andsoon…’);

$startNumber = 10; // if you already have users, pick the next highest number, as it uses this for several tables below, we need them to happen at the same time so that attributes belong to specific users…

$db_name = “databasename”;
$db_host = “localhost”;
$db_username = “username”;
$db_password = “password”;

// note the nice error reporting so that we can troubleshoot connections, users, table selections, and so forth…
$link = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_username, $db_password);
if (!$link) {
die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo ‘Connected successfully<br />’;
}

$db_selected = mysql_select_db($db_name, $link);
if (!$db_selected) {
die (‘Can\’t use foo : ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo ‘Selected manyvoices database successfully<br />’;
}

foreach($employees as $employee)
{
list($user_name, $therest) = explode(‘@’,$employee);

$query1 = “INSERT INTO wp_users
(id,user_login,user_pass,user_email,display_name)
VALUES
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’” . $user_name . “‘,md5(‘pass’),’” . $employee . “‘,’” . $user_name . “‘)“;
//echo $query1 . “<br />”;

$result1 = mysql_query($query1);
if(!result1){
die(‘Error: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else{
echo “User: ” . $user_name . ” : Added<br />”;
}

$query2 = “INSERT INTO wp_usermeta
(user_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’wp_capabilities’,'a:1:{s:6:\”author\”;s:1:\”1\”;}’),
(‘” . $startNumber . “‘,’wp_user_level’,’10′)“;
//echo $query2 . “<br />”;

$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
if(!result2){
die(‘Error: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
else
{
echo “User Credentials: ” . $user_name . ” : Updated<br />”;
}

$startNumber++;
}

mysql_close($link);

Notes from above reference:

• place EXPLAIN before your SELECT and learn a lot!
• index index index…
• in query, if possible, leave indexed field (usually after WHERE…) alone, or else every record must be calculated prior to conditional analysis…
• ANALYZE TABLE tablename;
• OPTIMIZE TABLE tablename

[quote block]

EXPLAIN SELECT employee_number,firstname,surname
FROM employee
WHERE employee_number= '10875';

+--------+----+-------------+----+-------+----+---+---------+
|table   |type|possible_keys|key |key_len|ref |rows| Extra  |
+--------+----+-------------+----+-------+----+---+---------+
|employee|ALL |NULL         |NULL|   NULL|NULL|  2|whereused|
+--------+----+-------------+----+-------+----+---+---------+

So what are all these things?

• table shows us which table the output is about (for when you join many tables in the query)
• type is an important one – it tells us which type of join is being used. From best to worst the types are: system, const, eq_ref, ref, range, index, all
• possible_keys Shows which possible indexes apply to this table
• key And which one is actually used
• key_len give us the length of the key used. The shorter that better.
• ref Tells us which column, or a constant, is used
• rows Number of rows mysql believes it must examine to get the data
• extra Extra info – the bad ones to see here are “using temporary” and “using filesort”

[quote block end]

Well, I agonized over getting this, and if you read the comments on the tutorial, many others have as well, working on my home Snow Leopard as well as on my work XP pc, and I spent countless hours looking for a post just such as this one is now, to no avail, so here it all is, hope it helps somebody:

hosts

In the event that you don’t have this done already, here is what should go in your environment’s hosts file…

Mac: /private/etc/hosts

PC:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

# Setup “components” Virtual Host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName project
DocumentRoot “C:\xampp\htdocs\project\public” // or /Library/WebServer/Documents/project/public

<Directory “C:\xampp\htdocs\project\public” // or /Library/WebServer/Documents/project/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

create the database that this will use

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `guestbook` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`email` varchar(32) DEFAULT NULL,
`comment` text,
`created` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

add dummy data to the database

INSERT INTO `guestbook` (`id`, `email`, `comment`, `created`) VALUES
(1, ‘ralph@schindler.com’, ‘hello’, ’2010-09-17 00:00:00′),
(2, ‘foo@bar.com’, ‘goodbye’, ’2010-09-17 00:00:00′);

if you haven’t done so already, create the user this app will use to connect, and give the user the priviledges they’ll need

CREATE USER ‘guestbook’@'localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘guestbook’;

GRANT ALL ON ‘guestbook’ TO ‘guestbook’@'localhost’;

project/application/Bootstrap.php

<?php
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
public function _initAutoloader()
{
// Create an resource autoloader component
$autoloader = new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource(array(
‘basePath’    => APPLICATION_PATH,
‘namespace’ => ‘Application’
));

// Add some resource types
$autoloader->addResourceTypes(array(
‘forms’ => array(
‘path’ => ‘forms’,
‘namespace’ => ‘Form’
),
‘models’ => array(
‘path’ => ‘models’,
‘namespace’ => ‘Model’
),
));

// Return to bootstrap resource registry
return $autoloader;
}

protected function _initActionHelpers()
{
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addPath(APPLICATION_PATH .’/helpers’);
}

protected function _initDoctype()
{
$this->bootstrap(‘view’);
$view = $this->getResource(‘view’);
$view->doctype(‘XHTML1_STRICT’);
}
}

project/public/index.php

<?php
// Define path to application directory
defined(‘APPLICATION_PATH’)
|| define(‘APPLICATION_PATH’, realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../application’));

// Define application environment
defined(‘APPLICATION_ENV’)
|| define(‘APPLICATION_ENV’, (getenv(‘APPLICATION_ENV’) ? getenv(‘APPLICATION_ENV’) : ‘development’));

// Ensure library/ is on include_path
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/../library’),
get_include_path(),
)));

/** Zend_Application */
require_once ‘Zend/Application.php’;

// Create application, bootstrap, and run
$application = new Zend_Application(
APPLICATION_ENV,
APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/application.ini’
);
$application->bootstrap()
->run();

project/application/configs/application.ini

[production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH “/../library”
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH “/Bootstrap.php”
bootstrap.class = “Bootstrap”
appnamespace = “Application”
resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH “/controllers”
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 0
resources.view[] =
resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH “/layouts/scripts/”

resources.db.adapter = “PDO_MYSQL”
resources.db.params.host = “localhost”
resources.db.params.username = “guestbook”
resources.db.params.password = “guestbook”
resources.db.params.dbname = “guestbook”

[staging : production]

[testing : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1

[development : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 1

project/application/controllers/GuestbookController.php

<?php
class GuestbookController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

public function init()
{
/* Initialize action controller here */
}

public function indexAction()
{
$guestbook = new Application_Model_GuestbookMapper();
$guestbook->fetchAll();
//var_dump($guestbook);
$this->view->entries = $guestbook->fetchAll();
}
}

project/application/models/Guestbook.php

<?php
class Application_Model_Guestbook
{
protected $_comment;
protected $_created;
protected $_email;
protected $_id;

public function __construct(array $options = null)
{
if (is_array($options)){
$this->setOptions($options);
}
}

public function __set($name, $value)
{
$method = ‘set’ . $name;
if ((‘mapper’ == $name) || !method_exists($this, $method)){
throw new Exception(‘Invalid guestbook property’);
}
$this->$method($value);
}

public function __get($name)
{
$method = ‘get’ . $name;
if ((‘mapper’ == $name) || !method_exists($this, $method)){
throw new Exception(‘Invalid guestbook property’);
}
return $this->$method();
}

public function setOptions(array $options)
{
$methods = get_class_methods($this);
foreach($options as $key => $value){
$method = ‘set’ . ucfirst($key);
if (in_array($method, $methods)){
$this->$method($value);
}
}
}

public function setComment($text)
{
$this->_comment = (string) $text;
return $this;
}

public function getComment()
{
return $this->_comment;
}

public function setEmail($email)
{
$this->_email = (string) $email;
return $this;
}

public function getEmail()
{
return $this->_email;
}

public function setCreated($ts)
{
$this->_created = $ts;
return $this;
}

public function getCreated()
{
return $this->_created;
}

public function setId($id)
{
$this->_id = (int) $id;
return $this;
}

public function getId()
{
return $this->_id;
}
}

project/application/models/GuesbookMapper.php

<?php
class Application_Model_GuestbookMapper
{
protected $_dbTable;

public function setDbTable($dbTable)
{
if (is_string($dbTable)){
$dbTable = new $dbTable();
}
if (!$dbTable instanceof Zend_Db_Table_Abstract){
throw new Exception(‘Invalid table data gateway provided’);
}
$this->_dbTable = $dbTable;
return $this;
}

public function getDbTable()
{
if (null === $this->_dbTable){
$this->setDbTable(‘Application_Model_DbTable_Guestbook’);
}
return $this->_dbTable;
}

public function save(Application_Model_Guestbook $guestbook)
{
$data = array(
‘email’    =>    $guestbook->getEmail(),
‘comment’    =>    $guestbook->getComment(),
‘created’    =>    date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’),
);

if (null === ($id = $guestbook->getId())){
unset($data['id']);
$this->getDbTable()->insert($data);
} else {
$this->getDbTable()->update($data,array(‘id = ?’ => $id));
}
}

public function find($id, Application_Model_Guestbook $guestbook)
{
$result = $this->getDbTable()->find($id);
if (0 == count($result)){
return;
}
$row = $result->current();
$guestbook->setId($row->id)
->setEmail($row->email)
->setComment($row->comment)
->setCreated($row->created);
}

public function fetchAll()
{
$resultSet = $this->getDbTable()->fetchAll();
//var_dump($resultSet);
$entries = array();
foreach ($resultSet as $row){
$entry = new Application_Model_Guestbook();
$entry->setId($row->id)
->setEmail($row->email)
->setComment($row->comment)
->setCreated($row->created);
$entries[] = $entry;
}
return $entries;
}
}

project/application/models/DbTable/Guestbook.php

<?php
class Application_Model_DbTable_Guestbook extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
{
/** Table name */
protected $_name    = ‘guestbook’;
}

project/application/views/scripts/guestbook/index.phtml

<p><a href=”<?php echo $this->url(
array(
‘controller’ => ‘guestbook’,
‘action’ => ‘sign’
),
‘default’,
true) ?>“>Sign Our Guestbook</a></p>

Guestbook Entries: <br />
<dl>
<?php foreach ($this->entries as $entry): ?>
<dt><?php echo $this->escape($entry->email) ?></dt>
<dd><?php echo $this->escape($entry->comment)?></dd>
<?php endforeach ?>
</dl>

final URL to hit: http://project/guestbook

Have to give credit where credit is due, thank you:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mysql-change-root-password/

conclusion, command:

mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD

while($get_cp_data_array = mysql_fetch_array($get_cp_data)){
$q_id = $get_cp_data_array['questionId'];

$q_fname = $get_cp_data_array['customerFName'];
$q_lname = $get_cp_data_array['customerLName'];
$q_email = $get_cp_data_array['customerEmail'];

$q_topic = $get_cp_data_array['questionTopic'];
$q_question = $get_cp_data_array['question'];
$q_date = $get_cp_data_array['questionDate'];
//$q_count = $get_cp_data_array['votecount'];
$q_customer = $get_cp_data_array['customerId'];

if($q_topic == “”){ $q_topic = “–”; }
if($q_fname != “” || $q_lname != “”){
$from = ‘<strong>’ . $q_fname . ‘ ‘ . $q_lname . ‘</strong> – ‘;
}

# Parse the question text.
$old = array(“\n”);
$new   = array(“<br/>”);
$q_question = str_replace($old, $new, $q_question);

# Output the question.
$cp_output = $cp_output . ‘
<div>’ . $q_id . ‘</div>
<div>
<div><strong>’ . $q_topic . ‘</strong></div>
<div>’ . $q_question . ‘</div>
<div><strong>Submitted</strong> ‘ . $q_date . ‘ by ‘ . $from . ‘<a href=”mailto:’ . $q_email . ‘”>’ . $q_email . ‘</a></div>
</div>
<div></div>
‘;
}

http://w3schools.com/sql/sql_datatypes.asp

Order results by 2 columns:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column1, column2

Simple delete:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”peter”,”abc123″);
if (!$con)
{
die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“my_db”, $con);
mysql_query(“DELETE FROM Persons WHERE LastName=’Griffin’”);
mysql_close($con);
?>

format is required, example:

date(“Y-m-d”)

of course, Y, m, and d stand for Year, month, day, and they may be separated by whatever you like, so the above example returns 2010-07-27, while date(“m/d/Y”) returns 07/27/2010

now for the timestamp parameter

MAKE what should be supplied for the timestamp, with mktime(hour,minute,second,month,day,year,is_dst)

$tomorrow = mktime(0,0,0,date(“m”),date(“d”)+1,date(“Y”))

date(“Y/m/d”,$tomorrow) returns tomorrow!

$product_list = “’1869′, ’1929′, ’549′, ’189′, ’419′, ’176′, ’192′, ’310′, ’291′, ’514′, ’1643′, ’1033′“;

$db_name = “dbName”;
//conditional platform logic to support multiple connection scenarios

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
{
case ‘localhost’:
$db_host = “localhost”;
$db_username = “userName”;
$db_password = “Password”;
$dblink = mysql_connect ($db_host, $db_username, $db_password);
mysql_select_db($db_name, $dblink);
break;
case ‘www-staging.site.com’: break;
case ‘www.site.com’:
include(‘/var/www/includes/connection_script.php’);
break;
}

$result = mysql_query(”
SELECT
product_id,
product_name
FROM
tableNameHere
WHERE
product_id IN (“.$product_list.“)
“);
if (!$result) { echo “Could not successfully run query ($sql) from DB: “ . mysql_error(); exit; }

//let’s break out the resource so that it can be singularly requested when needed

while($one = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$prod_id = $one['product_id'];
$product_name[$prod_id] = $one['product_name'];
}
@mysql_close($dblink);

example (for videodb to turn all “wanted” titles into “DVD” titles):

update videodb_videodata set mediatype =
replace(mediatype,’50’,’1’);

thank you for this great handy reference!

pasted verbatim:

Important Note:

The choice in MySQL between date_format() and time_format() depends on the type of column you have stored your date in.

NB: the time type for MySQL columns actually represents an amount of time elapsed; thus, it can be negative or positive. However, it can also be used to represent the time of day, where it represents the amount of time elapsed since 1 second past midnight. If you forget to add :00 for seconds (for example, using 13:30 for 1:30 p.m.), your time value will be interpreted as the number of minutes and seconds after midnight, or 12:30 a.m. plus 30 seconds.

database_name.table_name TO database_name.new_table_name,

database_name.table2_name TO database_name.new_table2_name;

NOTE the comma and the semicolon!

add this (or similar) at the bottom:

$i++;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘config’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = ‘user’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ‘password’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘your_host’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ‘Description to appear in phpMyAdmin’;

//end

params/reference: http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Config

And then control remote MySQL databases in your localhost/phpmyadmin

under Actions: Server: dropdown

*note: When connecting to a Godaddy DB, you must enable accessible remotely when creating the database!

or the network persistence traffic cop might come calling…YOU

OR
/* */

example:

if(!$result = mysql_query(”
SELECT
products_id,
FROM
runwayProductInfo,
WHERE
products_id IN (’545′,’100′)
/* hello */
– comment
ORDER BY FIELD(runwayProductInfo.products_id, ’100′,’545′)
“)){ echo mysql_error(); exit; }