Multiple update / insert's in one query?

[Prismatic]

So on my forums I notice I am using a lot of queries to get what I need done, which is not so good in practice. Is there a wat to update or insert different data into multiple tables using one query? (Updates and inserts in different queries) ? Not sure if it's even possible :(

[wickning1]

Not really, but PHP's mysqli extension has a mysqli_multi_query() function that sends several queries at once. mysqli is still not supported by a lot of web hosts though.

[phporcaffeine]

The best thing you can do here ( involves a bit more work) is to re-think your code, see if you can't get all the insert/update data in one place so you only have to run 1, possibly 2 queries per table.

This depends on what your doing but if it's a placement issue that causes you to run 2 queries on the same table you can throw some data into a temporary $_SESSION, then extract it from the array when your ready to run the query, that can help cut down on the amount of queries.