JShop MySQL Query Performance

NOTE: This quick and dirty hack (part of the insert function in /routines/dbAccess_mysql.php) kills the last ID - it would need to be made nice to work 100%.

$theQuery = str_replace('\"', '\\\"', str_replace("'", "''", $sql_query));
if ($result == FALSE) {
$this->lastError = mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error();
mysql_query("insert into amex_dbPerf (descript, err, time) values ('$theQuery', $this->lastError, $totalTime)");
return FALSE;
} else {
mysql_query("insert into amex_dbPerf (descript, err, time) values ('$theQuery', '', $totalTime)");
return $result;

CREATE TABLE `amex_dbperf` (
`actionID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`descript` text NOT NULL,
`err` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
`time` decimal(12,11) NOT NULL default '0.00000000000',
PRIMARY KEY (`actionID`)
)

PHP Timing

list($secs, $micros) = split(" ", microtime());
$startTime = $secs + $micros;
//Do Something
list($secs, $micros) = split(" ", microtime());
$totalTime = ($secs + $micros) - $startTime;
totalTime is a decimal with seconds

Visual Studio Regular Expressions Example

I had a number of lines of code in the form...
custNode["address1"].InnerText
...where custNode and address1 were variable, and I wanted to replace them with the more safe...
SafeInnerText (custNode, "address1")
To do this, I made one of my occasional ventures into regular expressions, and thought I would document it for future reference.
Find expression was this...

{<:i*>}{\[\"}{:i*}{\"\].InnerText}

The find is broken up into 4 "tags" (terminology from Visual Studio). I broke it up into multiple tags since I only need 2 parts of the found expression, not all of them.

Here is a rundown of the parts...

{<:i*>} (first tagged expression)
Finds custNode["address1"].InnerText

{} to indicate it's an expression
< indicates the beginning of a word
:i* to find the "custNode" part (Matches the expression ([a-zA-Z_$][a-zA-Z0-9_$]*))
> the end of the word

{\[\"} (second tagged expression
Finds custNode["address1"].InnerText

{} to indicate it's an expression
\[ (escaping special chars) to find the left bracket
\"(escaping special chars) to find the double quote

{:i*} (third tagged expression)
Finds custNode["address1"].InnerText

{} to indicate it's an expression
:i* to find the "address1" part (Matches the expression ([a-zA-Z_$][a-zA-Z0-9_$]*))

{\"\].InnerText} (fourth tagged expression)
Finds custNode["address1"].InnerText

{} to indicate it's an expression
\"(escaping special chars) to find the double quote
\[ (escaping special chars) to find the left bracket
.InnerText - literal

Now the replace...
SafeInnerText (\1, "\3")

\1 and \3 are replaced by the first and third tagged expressions.

NOTE: \0 gives you ALL the tagged expressions - in this case, it would be custNode["address1"].InnerText