Relax!
$email comes from a text input, and the categories come from checkboxes dynamically
displayed from
table column names:
//Get all table column names, dynamically display, and use to accept subscriptions to
category updates:
$fields = mysql_list_fields($dbName, myanet_categories, $connect);
$nocolumns = mysql_num_fields($fields);
for ($i=0; $i$nocolumns; $i++) {
$names = mysql_field_name($fields, $i) . \n;
$catselect .= b$names /binput type=\checkbox\
name=\category[$names]\ value=\yes\br\n;
}
I got it to work thus:
//Start off sql
$sql = INSERT INTO $myanet02 (;
//start display confirmation of subscribed categories
$category_list = ul\n\t;
//loop while categories have been ticked
while(list($key,$val) = each($category)) {
//trim whitespace from the end of $key (inherited from original var declaration of
'$names' above)
$sql1 .= rtrim($key) . ,;
$sql2 = substr($sql1,0,-1). );
$sql3 .= '$email',;
$sql4 = $sql . $sql2 . VALUES ( . $sql3;
//continue display confirmation of subscribed categories
$category_list .= li$key/li\n;
}
$category_list .= /ul;
//Remove the last comma from data to be inserted
$sql = substr($sql4,0,-1) . );
$query = mysql_query($sql,$connect) or die(mysql_error());
$confirm = You have now been subscribed to the following categories: $category_list;
}
}
Thanks v.much for your concern, but it works quite well now!
Cheers.
Russ
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:39:30 -0400 bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Russ,
It's not clear that you're keeping track of which categories are being checked.
You name them category[$names] but you refer to them as $category[$i] where $i is a
number. How will you know what $category[1] refers to?
Other issues: It's also not clear where the value of $email comes from. Nor is it
clear if you're trying to obtain one row in the database with all subscriptions or
whether
you could have multiple lines for multiple subscriptions.
Try this
while (list($key,$val)= each ($HTTP_POST_VARS[category]) ) {
$thisname=$key; // this is the name of the checkbox, as in $category[$name]
$thisval=$val; // this is the value, which in every case is yes
$sql=INSERT INTO $myanet02($thisname) values ($email);
// this will produce a line in the db for each subscription
// if you want one line for all subscriptions, remvoe the $sql line above and
// uncomment these lines below
// to compound the sql and run the query after the while
// if ($thefields) $thefields .= , $thisname; } else { $thefields =
$thisname; }
// if($thevalues) $thevalues .= ,'$email' } else { $thevalues = '$email'; }
$query = mysql_query($sql,$connect) or die(mysql_error());
} // end while
// uncomment following lines for single row entry
// $sql= INSERT INTO $myanet02($thefields) values ($thevalues);
// echo $sql;
// $query = mysql_query($sql,$connect) or die(mysql_error());
kind regards,
bill hollett
Russ Michell wrote:
Hi everyone:
I've been fiddling with this all day, and well - if it was working you wouldn't be
reading this
right now! ;-) My script should take the selections made by users and process them
via
straightforward MySQL inserts:
//Get all table column names, dynamically display them as checkboxes. Use to
process
subscriptions: $fields = mysql_list_fields($dbName, myanet_categories,
$connect);
$columns = mysql_num_fields($fields); for ($i=0; $i$columns; $i++) {
$names = mysql_field_name($fields, $i) . \n; $catselect .=
b$names
/binput type=\checkbox\ name=\category[$names]\ value=\yes\br\n;
}
//If submit button selected, process those ticked checkbox categories:
if(isset($submit)) { //loop while categories have been ticked
for($i=0;$icount($category);$i++) {
if($HTTP_POST_VARS[category{$i}]
== 'yes') { //Not sure about this bit... $sql = INSERT
INTO $myanet02
(staffdev,strategies,rules,news,information,policies)
VALUES('$email','$email','$email','$email','$email','$email');
//$query
= mysql_query($sql,$connect) or die(mysql_error()); echo
$sql;
} }
}
At the moment not even echoing my $sql works. I know this aint gonna work as it
is, because what
I really need to know is:
* How do I insert into only those categories that have been checked? (default is
'null' in a
VARCHAR(50) field) * How do I only declare '$email' a single time as this is the
only value being
inserted?
Many thanks: Russ
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