first of all, to Dan for giving me hope by pointing out that 0-->127 is 2^7, while i waited for the email from Mad Bull pointing out that tinyint only goes up to 127, and mediumint was what my clueless ass should have set the id# column to in the first place.
it's a learning journey. i love that i have friends that help.
whether or not that makes any sense, defines how deeply geeky you are. i'm getting in deeper every day. and i love it.
and you know everything i input past, like, the p's on my secondary linklist, and on to the freerange list links, never got into the db. i don't care, i'm so happy right now i have no issues with re-inputting the last 50 links or so.
Heh.
Congrats!
Would you, Dan, or Mad Bull please explain what that original post says in English? I can figure out "int" might mean integer or interval, so tiny or medium makes a bit of sense, but that first bit has thrown me.
from zero to 127, spans 128, or 2 raised to the seventh power, so, that clue meant it was definitely not something random like, say, an error creeping into the database at that point. it was a limit, of some sort. a setting.
the the second part is column types, in MySQL. tinyint (integer), goes from 1 to 127, anything above that the database wouldnt't auto-increment the number. just kept returning an error that 127 was a duplicate entry. i entered a whole bunch because i didn't bother to put in error handlers. bad me.
so, mediumint will hold much bigger numbers. when i set it up i was thinking of the id# as being, well, a tiny integer.
Ah. 2^7 = 2 to the 7th. That's what threw me off. Thanks.
No, medium int is fine... That should hold more than 2 GL (gigalinks :-)) )
i'm not even sure if i'm done, but i almost think i am. i've put some of those things in, like, four times.
everything's worked out, as far as the database issues.
now... did i forget anybody? let me know.
that would be 160 links. yeah.
Still a ways from 256, if that's the next threshold...
eeks maybe i better go the next up from 'mediumint' then. i get carried away with my links. i loves me some linkys.