Something like this might work for you. (Just typed in the code and didn't
test it, so take with a grain of salt. It doesn't really take into account
all types of data, but maybe it will help with an idea.)
Have groups of the following in your form:
<TR>
<TD>
<SELECT NAME="column[]">
<OPTION VALUE="column_name1">column_name1
<OPTION VALUE="column_name2">column_name2
</SELECT>
</TD>
<TD><INPUT NAME="col_value[]" TYPE="text" VALUE="" SIZE=20></TD>
</TR>
and process it like:
$set_clause = "SET ";
$comma = "";
for ($i=0; $i<count($column); $i++) {
$set_clause .= $comma . $column[$i] . "=" . $col_value[$i];
$comma = ",";
}
$sql = "UPDATE $table $set_clause WHERE id=$id";
-Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ren� Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] How to do a dynamic UPDATE SET
>
>
> I'm having a REALLY hard time with something that's probably
> easy to do (for
> someone :-)...
>
> Normally, to perform an update on a table with data from a
> submitted form, I
> would use something like:
>
> $sql = "UPDATE $table SET pet='$pet', name='$name' WHERE id=$id";
> $result = mysql_query($sql);
>
> And it would work. Of course, if I wanted to update a
> different table (with
> different columns/fields), I would need to only change the
> SET part of the
> SQL (since the value for $table is dynamically generated).
> For example,
>
> $sql = "UPDATE $table SET car='$car', year='$year' WHERE id=$id";
> $result = mysql_query($sql);
>
> But here's what I want to do now: I want to use the same two
> lines of code
> for any possible form data that might be submitted--in other
> words, I don't
> want to have to create unique $sql/$result lines for each and
> every table in
> my database. I want this .php code to accept whatever number
> and type of
> form elements/data submitted, and make the appropropriate SET values.
> Anyone know how I can do that? I actually have tried several
> things to pass
> the form data strcuture (number and names of columns) over to
> this php code,
> but haven't been able to get anything working. Can anyone
> help?? Much
> thanks if you can..
>
> ...Rene
>
> ---
> Rene Fournier
>
>
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