Question

I have an appcelerator titanium project (you don’t need to be familiar with the platform to help me) that I am using to create an iOS app. I want to have a database with a table that is filled with several rows for the first time, and then left alone after the first time.

I know you can create a table if it doesn’t exist. Is there something similar for Inserting data?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Expanding on MPelletier’s response with some Titanium-specific code, you could do the following in your project:

var my_db = Ti.Database.open('nameofdb');
var my_result_set = my_db.execute('SELECT * FROM MyTable');
var records = my_result_set.rowCount;

The records variable will indicate whether or not you have data in your table and then you can act accordingly.

There are a couple of nice ORM-ish utilities out there for Titanium: TiStore and Joli are the two I’ve used. Both are inspired by ActiveRecord and can be helpful in reducing your DB-related code. They’re on Github if you want to know more about them!