Okay, I have to say that Tilly is right on one point. If I am going to criticize the question, I should have been more specific. (I even gave Tilly a ++ vote for that point.)

I will do that next time.

However, my point is still valid and Tilly does not seem to recognize that. (We had a long discussion about it this morning.) While I am sure the cdherold is normally a fine programmer, s/he sounds like s/he is being lazy here.

S/he is smart and resouceful enough to know about DBI and got those variable names from the documentation or a close proximity there of, but sounds here to by saying:

"I tried once, it failed. Help me!"

I am not trying to scare off some relative newbie. I am trying to challenge them to think things through before asking the questions. Try it a few different ways, do some research. It does him/her a disservice to write their code for them.

I don't believe my tone was as harsh as Tilly says. If so, it was not my intention to sound harsh. I truely wonder if he/she was attempting to use execute() in a new way. If so, I commend that, but the question was worded poorly if that is the case.

I admit it, I am Paco.

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Getting MySQL Data into an Array. by jonjacobmoon
in thread Getting MySQL Data into an Array. by cdherold

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