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Add featured products to the store home page
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Looking for PHP Jobs in the Leeds area?
You have come to the right place. Edmonds Commerce are actively recruiting PHP developers in the Leeds area. We have more work on than we can handle and that’s only likely to grow even more.
If you would like to work as a PHP Developer with Edmonds Commerce in Leeds then get in touch as we have a great job to offer you.
You can read more about our PHP Jobs in Leeds by visiting this page:
If you are from anywhere in or around Leeds, Bradford, Hunslet, Beeston Hill, Knowsthorpe, Kirkstall, Belle Isle, Farnley, Beeston, Killingbeck, Meanwood, Bramley, Adel, Stanningley, Moortown, Gildersome and looking for PHP work then get in touch.
January 15, 2011 No Comments
MySQL has a nice feature that you may well not have used called Triggers.
These are little SQL statements that are tied to events on table and then perform some extra work.
The idea being that you will check the values for a row and if they meet some conditions you will take some further action. You might usually do this kind of thing in code but if you really must be certain that in a certain circumstance a certain action will be taken, then triggers are a good option because regardless which bit of code makes the change you can be sure your rules will be enforced.
Of course this ties you to a specific DB platform so its not something you should over use. There can also be performance issues so you need to bear that in mind.
Anyway, assuming you know what you are letting yourself in for and have read the documentation here is my little summary.
First you need to give your trigger a name. Choose something descriptive.
Then you need to associate it to an even (UPDATE, INSERT etc) and also decide whether to do it BEFORE or AFTER. If you are not sure, use BEFORE – it’s generally the one you want to use.
CREATE TRIGGER do_something BEFORE UPDATE ON table ...
The next bit is boiler plate as far as I can gather, just whack it in. It delimits your actual statement and tells it to be run for each updated row.
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
Then do your test
IF ((NEW.column < 1) AND (OLD.column >=1)) THEN
Note the NEW and OLD keywords there.
You have a choice of using the NEW and OLD keyword to access existing (OLD) and about to be set (NEW) data for each column.
Note also, this is only possible if you use the BEFORE event as opposed to AFTER, hence generally just sticking to using BEFORE
Now, enforce your requirements
SET NEW.another_column = 0; SET NEW.and_another_column = 0; SET NEW.and_another = 'cheese';
Then wrap it up
END IF; END;
That’s it…
BUT WAIT
There’s another bit that I totally missed which caused me issues – you need to wrap the whole thing in a delimiter statement:
delimiter // ... the statement END;// delimiter;
So the full final thing should look like this:
delimiter //
CREATE TRIGGER do_something BEFORE UPDATE ON table
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
IF ((NEW.column < 1) AND (OLD.column >=1)) THEN
SET NEW.another_column = 0;
SET NEW.and_another_column = 0;
SET NEW.and_another = 'cheese';
END IF;
END; //
delimiter;
Another point to mention is – just use the CLI for handling these, don’t try to use phpMyAdmin etc – it doesn’t really work.
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Edmonds Commerce are currently (and practically always) looking for talented PHP developers to join the team.
Please see this page about PHP Developer Jobs in Leeds
January 12, 2011 No Comments
We are starting to get more and more international clients primarily from America and Australasia. It’s great to be getting a more global market, though keeping track of client’s local time is sometimes confusing.
Then the thought occurs: “I’m using Linux, there’s bound to be an excellent app to help me deal with this”.
Turns out there is and its included with Ubuntu as standard.
The desktop clock, normally displayed in the top right actually has functionality to allow you to add as many extra locations as you want, so with a single click you can check the current time in whatever locations you want.
To set these up, simply click the clock which then drops down a calendar view. At the bottom of that view there is a Locations option. Click that to display a map and also an [Edit] button.
Hit the [Edit] button and you can add whatever locations you wish. Once they are set up you can check the local time for any of your locations by simply clicking the clock in the top right again.
Awesome. Got to love Ubuntu and Linux 
January 11, 2011 No Comments
