RE: Store whole record in one field of a

[Robin Bowes]

> Without testing, I can think of some nice PHP functions to accomplish   
this
> rather easy. The table where the data is dumped should contain some id   
(I
> would use an autoincrement integer id) and a text or blob field (I   
would
> also add a timestamp), then You can do something like:
>   $result=mysql_query("select * from thetable where id=theid");
>   $row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
>   $data=implode(",", $row);
>   mysql_query("insert into audittable values (someid, '$data')");
>
> The implode function build a string where all the fields from
> the fetched row become comma-separated.

Excellent.  I had an idea that PHPH would have the functions to do the   
job but this makes my life a lot easier!

>
> Please note that this code doesn't do any error checking and there are
> probably a number of special cases that will not work without   
additional
> coding, like fields containing commas and binary data in blobs.

Yeah, I'll watch out for that.  There's no binary data to worry about,   
though.

> This line would at least surround all fields with single qoutes:
>   $data="'" . implode("','", $row) . "'";

My first thoughts were to store the fields as delimited text, ie as you   
suggest.

Thanks a lot!

R.
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