Question

I have a SQL DB that is just one table with one row that I would like to increment from my iphone, just to test out communication with a server.

I have done this with the phone before but I have never done the stuff on there server side and would like to learn.

so far I have created the sql db as said above. it is pretty much just this.

CREATE TABLE workers
(
id SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
)

that could be slightly wrong.. it took me a couple of times to get it to work on the server and I am only writing it from memory now.

However now I would like to figure out how to just make it increment from a php script on my server… so far for the script I have done the basic stuff you do to get it to check for the DB connectivity so it looks a little something like this..

<?PHP
$con = mysql_connect("db.url.com","pass","username");
if (!$con){die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());}
mysql_select_db("db", $con);

?>

I am not sure what to do now.. I would guess its some type of insert statment, but im not sure of this as I am using Auto Increment on that row…

any help would be greatly appreciated.. hopefully once I have had help figuring this out I will be able to move on and do more complex things myself 🙂

Answer 1

The mysql connection:

<?php 
$hostname = "yourhostname";
$database = "yourdatabase";
$username = "youusername";
$password = "yourpasword@";
$conn = mysql_pconnect($hostname,$username,$password) or die();
mysql_select_db($database,$conn) or die(“ERROR ”.mysql_error());
?>

Then the INSERT:

<?php
mysql_query("INSERT INTO workers (id) VALUES (null)");
?>

Hope it helps! =D