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Hi,
The main idea is that I have a client running on certain desktops.

Each 5th minute the client sends and update to the web-server, increasing "tick" by one.
Tick start out as 0, so after 5 minutes ticket should be greater than 5.
If tick is not greater than 0 then do <code omitted>

I Guess I would need some kind of cronjob to complete this, but i'd love to avoid sessions & cookies at all costs, as the same server is checking the same tick but for different accounts..

Any suggestions are highly appreciated ^.^

Hello I have two arrays of mysql values $a1, $b1 I am trying to loop through each $a value, no problem, but I want to see if each element in $a = one of the values in $b so:

$a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
$b = array(4, 6);
$y = '';
foreach ($a1 as $a){
 foreach ($b1 as $b){
  if ($a[val] == $b[val]){
  $y = '*';
  }
}
echo $y.$a.'<br />';
}  

I was kinna hoping it would give me 1 2 3 *4 5 *6 Its most definitely not though... Im sure Im flawed in my logic but have coded so much other crap I just can't see the answer!  ty for the look/help.  

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on a large inventory management screen; the website has multiple "distributors" with their own inventory of products. Each distributor has the potential to carry the entire catalog of SKU's so right now, I have the stock/sku/dealer ID/product ID in one table with the product data/ID in another and am only inserting new rows if they are carrying the product.

However they want to manage all of the inventory at once so I need to determine which IDs are update queries and which are insert queries.

I'm trying to achieve this by comparing an array of the submitted data against an array of their existing inventory. If they don't have an entry for the submitted data key, we need to insert a new row for it to track their inventory.

I just can't figure out how to get the keys to line up. Here is what I have; I tried to put it all into obviously defined variables for this forum.

Code: (php) [Select]
// assign our submitted values to an array
$submitted_data = $_POST;

// remove the SKUs with 0 or no inventory submitted
$submitted_data = array_filter($submitted_data);

// pull the distributor id out of the array before the insertion loop
$distributors_inventory_distributor_ID = array_pop($submitted_data);

// pull all existing inventory for this distributor to see if we are adding new inventory
// or updating old inventory
$existing_Inventory_Result = mysql_query("SELECT distributors_inventory_product_ID FROM distributors_inventory WHERE distributors_inventory_distributor_ID = $distributors_inventory_distributor_ID ORDER BY distributors_inventory_product_ID ASC", $db);

// verify there is a result
$existing_Inventory_num_results = mysql_num_rows($existing_Inventory_Result);
if ($existing_Inventory_num_results > 0){

while($existing_Inventory_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($existing_Inventory_Result)){

// put existing inventory into an array
$existing_Inventory[] = $existing_Inventory_row['distributors_inventory_product_ID'];

}

}

$update_Inventory_Array = array_diff($submitted_data, $existing_Inventory);

// print the array [DEBUG ONLY]
echo '<h1>$update_Inventory_Array:</h1>';
print_r($update_Inventory_Array);
echo '<hr/>';
echo '<h1>$submitted_data:</h1>';
print_r($submitted_data);
echo '<hr/>';
echo '<h1>$existing_Inventory:</h1>';
print_r($existing_Inventory);

That is outputting this:
Quote

$update_Inventory_Array:
Array ( [963] => 5 [979] => 2 [982] => 2 [974] => 1 [32] => 5 )

$submitted_data:
Array ( [963] => 5 [979] => 2 [982] => 2 [974] => 1 [32] => 5 )

$existing_Inventory:
Array ( => 32 [1] => 963 [2] => 974 [3] => 979 )

I'd like it to be:
Quote

$update_Inventory_Array:
Array ( [963] => 5 [979] => 2  [974] => 1 [32] => 5 )

$submitted_data:
Array ( [982] => 2 )

$existing_Inventory:
Array ( [32] => 5 [963] => 1 [974] => 1 [979] => 2 )


Can anyone suggest how to do this? I think if I could make the existing_Inventory array line up with my submitted_data array I could sort the rest out but I'm not sure how to get the keys/data to line up properly.