Ok, the answer was staring me in the face. I have it all figured out now.
Thanks for the help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark C. Farrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Converting MySOL query results into form elements.
> Thanks for the quick response, but I'm still having a bit of difficulty
with
> it.
>
> I'll go into a bit more detail:
>
> I have my database and what I need in the dropdown is the results of a
query
> on the field unit_tag in a table named unit_name.
> I see how the code snippet creates the dropdown box but I'm still fuzzy on
> how to pass the query results.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Hillström (GIS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Mark C. Farrington'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:31 AM
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Converting MySOL query results into form elements.
>
>
> > I solved it like this:
> >
> > echo "<SELECT NAME='databasename'>";
> > while($row = sybase_fetch_array($dbresult)) {
> > $r0 = $row[0];
> > echo "<OPTION VALUE='$r0'>$r0</OPTION>";
> > }
> > echo "</SELECT><BR>";
> >
> >
> > //Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark C. Farrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:25 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP-DB] Converting MySOL query results into form elements.
> >
> >
> > What I need to do is query a MySQL db and turn the results into a
dropdown
> box on a form.
> >
> > I've been paging through my books and I've come accross the command
> writeOptionList which seems to be what I'm looking for but I'm not sure
how
> to use it.
> >
> > Self taught programming is a joy eh?
> >
> > Mark C. Farrington
>
>
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