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Hello, The following query: I would like to select only distinct rows with respect to deals.handset (no 2 results from this query will spit out the same deals.handset value). How would I go about this? (deals.handset is indexed, and is an integer value) Thank you so much, Matt

Hello, I've got 2 images (please see attached: top3.jpg, side4.jpt) (using these 2 as an example) I want to overlay them onto the image (also attached temp1.jpg) However, the corner gets cut off, as can be seen (temp3.jpg) Im wondering if I can overlay them using PHP at the 45deg angle? Currently using $dest = imagecreatefromjpeg($source); $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($image); if($part == 1) { // main image imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 0, 80, 0, 0, 321, 321, 100); } else if($part == 2) { // the top image imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, 401, 80, 100); } else if($part == 3) { // the side image on the right imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 321, 1, 0, 0, 80, 401, 100); } imagejpeg($dest, $save); imagedestroy($dest); imagedestroy($src); Thank you!

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Hello, Im trying to optimize the following query: Where I'm altering the manufacturer_id. Here is an explain: And the tables (omitted some of the fields that are not needed here); Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Thank you very much, that done it!

Thanks for the response, here are the new outputs: Thanks

Hello, I'm trying to speed up a search function. Here is an example query: Deals Table: deal | tarrif text | int(15) Tariffs Table: tarrif_numericid | network_numericid | contract_length | anytime_mins | texts | data | cost_month | someother coumns.. int(15) | int(15) | int(15) | int(15) | int(15) | int(15) | decimal(15,2) | ... Each of the coumns above depends on what the user searches for, please see query above for example. Here are my current indexes: 1) h.tarrif_numericid 2) h.contract_length h.anytime_mins h.texts h.data h.cost_month 3) d.tarrif Explain: Any help would be greatly appreciated increasing the speed (from the current 8s)!

Hello, Is it possible anyone could hlep me out in optimising the following query? Produces: Showing rows 0 - 19 ( 20 total, Query took 20.4553 sec) The explain for this query: Tables: Deals table has 1.2m records and tariffs has 2500 records. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

Thanks for the help, I've implemented all the changes you have given but the speed is still an issue: Showing rows 0 - 19 ( 20 total, Query took 4.4153 sec) [popularity: 84 - 80] SELECT DISTINCT * FROM deals d JOIN handsets h ON ( d.handset = h.handet_numeric ) WHERE h.manufacturer_id = '9' ORDER BY d.popularity DESC LIMIT 20 Thanks!

Hello, I currently have 2 tables, a deals table and a handset table. Now, only the handset table has a reference to a manufacturer. I wish to list the top 20 DEALS for a given manufacturer. So the easiest way to do this would be to use the handset table; each deal is linked to a handset, and hence, has the manufacturer ID required to produce results. Tables below: 'Deals' Table - 2.3m rows 'Handsets' Table - 5000 rows Here is the query I have come up with which isn't giving me fantastic results, for manufacturer ID 3, top 20. SELECT distinct * FROM `deals` LEFT JOIN `handsets` ON deals.handset = handsets.handet_numeric WHERE `handsets`.`manufacturer_id` = '3' ORDER BY `deals`.`popularity` DESC LIMIT 20 This query takes around 53 seconds too! Not very well optimised.. Wondered if anyone could let me know a way to optimise it? I've added an index for handsets.handet_numeric. Thanks

Thank you guys, very informative!

Hello, Trying to get all content within paragraph tags. Im using: preg_match("#<p>(.*)</p>#i", $contents, $match); There are around 8 paragraphs on this page, but it only matches two - and thats the first <p> tag with the last </p> tag. Not to sure what I should change (.*) too? Thanks

Hello, I'm trying to convert a paragraph of text which is already html formatted. I wish to find keywords, such as, 'PHP', which are contained in the paragraph, and replace them with a link, for example <a href="http:/www...">PHP</a> str_replace('PHP', '<A href=""....">PHP</a>', $content); My problem arises when some of these keywords are already contained in a link, so say, visit PHP website, is all one link, so str_replace would simply convert the PHP in this string, to two links for one single word. <a href="">visit <A href=""....">PHP</a> website</a> How could this problem be resolved? Thanks

Hi, Say you had, <business_name type="string">L Choong</business_name>, contained inside a variable(content before and after this in the same var), how would you extract the 'L Choong' information as a new var? Thanks

It's heavily disliking that variable.. I managed to get a fix for it but updating the postcode from an off-site location.. Kind of killing the idea of a var, but stuck $this_business['postcode'] = "SE8 5DA"; at the top of the page. Thanks for the posts