I need to reconcile between an existing set of tables and new/changed information that I get on a regular basis, and so have a set of ~30 UPDATE/INSERT operations that has to run every time. Since 'mysql_query' is now deprecated, and I'd prefer not to recode everything in OO, is there a reasonable procedural way to run all of these in sequence without having to call 'mysqli_free_result()
' after every single one?
Just for the record, I've tried running them as a set of mysqli_query
statements without mysqli_free_result()
, and it's a mess: some of the operations go through while others fail silently. Frankly, a shell script with a bunch of 'mysql -e
' commands in it was much more reliable... but this needs to be a Web-driven app, so that's not viable anymore.