[PHP-DB] Re: Refresh after DB Query

2002-07-03 Thread Adam Royle

Sorry if you are a newbie..

but if might help if you delete the records before you select them to display in 
html

ie: put the delete query at the top of the page, just after this line:

require (templates/db_connect.php);

adam



[PHP-DB] Re: Strange MySQL Query Problem

2002-07-03 Thread tatang

 I have a simple form which queries the database based on 2 pop-up menu 
 choices and keywords entered by the user,
 it passes on the variables as follows: 
 
 pop-up1=choice1, pop-up2=choice2, textfield=user specified data

use : 

$pop-up1 = $HTTP_POST_VARS[pop-up1];
... each variables you passed 

PHP 4.2's default doesn't support register global 


 the query is as follows 
 
 $result = mysql_query(SELECT some_id, some_description, some_feature 
 FROM '$pop-up1' WHERE some_description LIKE '%$texfield%' AND 
 some_feature LIKE '%$pop-up2'); 
 
 it tells me that column which equals to the $texfield does not exists, 
 
 a bit buffled I am, I've these queries before on larger web servers, this 
 is the first time on my workstation and it does just that, simpler 
 queries work fine... 
 
 thanks in advance, 
 
 R 
 
 ps. the form is guarded against empty entries
 ps2. RedHat 7.3, Mysql 3.23.51, Apache 1.3+ wik PHP 4.2.1 configured for 
 MySQL 
 
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[PHP-DB] Dow name from Dow number

2002-07-03 Thread Alexander

Hello,
in PostgreSQL I have this:
select date_part('dow', timestamp_name), count(id) from table_name group by
date_part('dow',timestamp_name);

and I get a record count list grouped by week days.
E.g.:
---+--
0   |   123
1   | 16
2   | 45
...  |
6   |   9

I just want the day's name in the place of the day's number. E.g.
--+--
sun |   123
mon|16
tue  |45
etc.

I use PHP 4.0
Thanks for help.




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[PHP-DB] RE: Refresh after DB Query - Solved

2002-07-03 Thread Hutchins, Richard

Ugh! Thanks, Adam. I knew it would be something stupid. Although I am kind
of new (less than 6 months) to PHP, I'm really not that bad with it (IMHO).
I really thought I had tried putting the DELETE stuff where you said to put
it and it didn't work. However, new day, fresh eyes, your advice...it works
now.
 
Thanks again.
 
Rich

-Original Message-
From: Adam Royle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Refresh after DB Query


Sorry if you are a newbie..
 
but if might help if you delete the records before you select them to
display in html
 
ie: put the delete query at the top of the page, just after this line:
 
require (templates/db_connect.php);
 
adam




Re: [PHP-DB] PDF/FDF Support

2002-07-03 Thread Paul Burney

on 7/2/02 8:20 PM, Jefferson Cowart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] appended the
following bits to my mbox:

 I'm trying to write a PDF form that people can fill in. I want to then
 take the data, store it in my database, and then recall the data, and
 display a filled in form with that data. I see two options. The first is
 to have acrobat post the entire PDF file and store the entire file. This
 option seems to be to be a little bit of a waste as much of the data is
 the same (the form). The second option is to have it post FDF data and
 then later turn that around and put it back into a form for people to
 view. Does anyone know of any good documentation on how to do this with
 PDF files, PHP, and a DB backend?

The most accessible solution is to generate the PDF file with all of the
data filled in as text in the PDF.  That way, programs other than Acrobat
Reader can view the PDF file.

If you have your PHP module compiled with FDF support, you can read this
page for more info:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fdf.php

If you don't have that, it is fairly straightforward to make an FDF document
by hand with PHP.  I put up a sample at:

http://www.burney.ws/misc/fdf-sample.phps

Basically, though, you want to do the following:

1) Use Acrobat to create the PDF fill in document, using reasonable variable
names (probably your database field names)

2) Write a PHP file that does something like:

 - Output the correct FDF header
 - Output the standard beginning FDF stuff
 - Put the database data into the the /T and /V fields
 - Set the /F value as the URL of your pdf fill-in.
 - Output the standard ending FDF stuff

Caveats:

Acrobat Reader must be installed as a web plugin (i.e., opening the document
in the browser) and it must be set to handle the FDF type.  This may be the
default case in Windows, but I know from experience that it is a PITA on old
Macs.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

Paul Burney
http://paulburney.com/

?php
while ($self != asleep) {
$sheep_count++;
}
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[PHP-DB] date issue with MsSql - follow up....still a bug?

2002-07-03 Thread Jeffrey_N_Dyke

Hello.  I was curious if any one is using PHP4.2x with SQLserver 7(or 2000)
and having luck with the datetime type.  No matter the datetime in the
database PHP 4.1.2 is always returning Feb 06 2036 6:37AM .  The insert is
correct, its only the select that this happens on.

There was a bug report, though not exactly what is happening to me with
4.1.1, and not the same OS, and i don't want to duplicate this report, but
would rather upgrade to 4.2 if the problem is fixed in this version, but
i'm not convinced that it is as the bug report is not closed.

Thanks for any input any of you may have,
Jeff


- Forwarded by Jeffrey N Dyke/CORP/Keane on 07/03/2002 08:59 AM -
   
 
Jeffrey N Dyke 
 
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
07/02/2002   cc:   
 
05:40 PM Subject: date issue with MsSql
 
   
 
   
 



I'm posting info into a SQL Server from a form, all has been working fine
inserting, updating and selecting information for months.  I have recently
added a date field to the table with the type of datetime.  It updates the
table in SQL Server fine, but it keeps pulling it back as this date [Feb 07
2036 06:30AM].  for an example i put in a date of 01/01/2001(which is what
is in the Database)  it doesn't matter the date that i'm inputting, it
always brings back the same date.

set up  - solaris 8/Apache/SQLServer 7/PHP4.12

any ideas?
Thanks
Jeff



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[PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Terry Romine

I'm having a problem with cookies over several pages. I've tried to set 
them up per the manual, ie: prior to header, and using 
setcookie('cookiename',$value,time()+3600). The cookie seems to be 
created fine on the first page, and passed to the second page, but is 
not maintained when the pages are re-viewed.

I am trying to use this to assign a user id when someone comes in, and 
keep their id while they go through various searches and resulting 
pages, as well as keeping their search parameters for them. But when 
they go to a new search, all the data gets wiped and it starts all over.

I have the cookie set for an hour, but it is empty when the search is 
run again. I thought cookies would remain in effect for the duration of 
the life (an hour) and be accessible to the pages over again.

Help??

My code is as follows:

search.php:
if (!isset($user_data)) {
setcookie(user_data,,time()+(3600));// set for 6 weeks 
*24*7*6
}
[snip]
if($user_data==) {
$sql=insert into user (last_login) values (now());
mysql_query($sql);
$myID= mysql_insert_id();
$user_data = $myID;
}

search_result.php:
if (isset($user_data)) { $myID = $user_data; }


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Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Jeffrey_N_Dyke


Is this a issue with register _globals = off.  try referencing it with
$_COOKIE['user_data'].
Also isn't 3600 only an hour.  60secs * 60mins?  i think 6 weeks would
be...  151200  60 * 60 * 42days
does that work?

Jeff


   

Terry Romine   

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rails.com  cc:

Subject: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple 
pages   
07/03/2002 10:45   

AM 

   

   





I'm having a problem with cookies over several pages. I've tried to set
them up per the manual, ie: prior to header, and using
setcookie('cookiename',$value,time()+3600). The cookie seems to be
created fine on the first page, and passed to the second page, but is
not maintained when the pages are re-viewed.

I am trying to use this to assign a user id when someone comes in, and
keep their id while they go through various searches and resulting
pages, as well as keeping their search parameters for them. But when
they go to a new search, all the data gets wiped and it starts all over.

I have the cookie set for an hour, but it is empty when the search is
run again. I thought cookies would remain in effect for the duration of
the life (an hour) and be accessible to the pages over again.

Help??

My code is as follows:

search.php:
 if (!isset($user_data)) {
  setcookie(user_data,,time()+(3600));// set for 6 weeks *24*7*6
 }
  [snip]
 if($user_data==) {
  $sql=insert into user (last_login) values (now());
  mysql_query($sql);
  $myID= mysql_insert_id();
  $user_data = $myID;
 }

search_result.php:
 if (isset($user_data)) { $myID = $user_data; }


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[PHP-DB] Re: Changing leters to *

2002-07-03 Thread Mike Germain

Password Field: INPUT TYPE=PASSWORD
An INPUT element with `TYPE=PASSWORD' is a text field as above, except that
the value is obscured as it is entered. (see also: section Security
Considerations).

For example:

pName: input name=login Password: input type=password name=passwd

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news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
 Hi
 I need to change letters to * in the form window (password) and I don't
know
 how. Mayby someone has got some ideas
 Thanks

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Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread John Fishworld

Banging my head against a wall with this !
Hope someone can help !

Using MySQL

Trying to list cities with events for that month
I've correctly (i think) formatted my date to a datetime style for MySQL
$month is there chosen one

$tosearch = date(Y-$month-d 00:00:00);

And then this is my inquiry -(although this just would be 60 days in advance
but it doesn't work)
And what I really want is just for that month ?
SO if its already 20th of the month it only looks a the next 11 days

SELECT distinct t_city_name,t_city_id_city, t_event_date
FROM t_city,t_zipcodecity,t_location,t_event
WHERE (t_city_id_city = t_zipcodecity_id_city)
AND (t_zipcodecity_zipcode = t_location_zipcode )
AND (t_location_sex = 2)
AND (t_location_id_location = t_event_id_location)
AND (t_event_date = (DATE_ADD('2002-07-03 00:00:00', INTERVAL 60 day)) )
ORDER by t_city_name

Can anyone help please



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Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Terry Romine

1) no, the commented
   setcookie(user_data,,time()+(3600));// set for 6 weeks *24*7*6
I would move the *24*7*6 back into the (3600) to make it so. I just 
want to test for an hour

2) so maybe this is a problem with the server? I've been tearing my hair 
out because neither cookies nor sessions are acting the way that I have 
done them in the past on a different server.

**sigh**

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 10:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is this a issue with register _globals = off.  try referencing it with
 $_COOKIE['user_data'].
 Also isn't 3600 only an hour.  60secs * 60mins?  i think 6 weeks would
 be...  151200  60 * 60 * 42days
 does that work?

 Jeff


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Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Terry Romine

as in
if (!isset($_COOKIE['user_data'])) {
setcookie(user_data,,time()+(3600));// set for 6 weeks 
*24*7*6
}
??
nah.. that doesn't work either. It still creates a new cookie.

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 10:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is this a issue with register _globals = off.  try referencing it with
 $_COOKIE['user_data'].


[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 Trust me this does not work with php 4.2.1 and apache 2.0.39 from what 
 I am told if you get the cvs for apache 2.0.4 it should but I just down 
 graded to apache 1.3.26 and php 4.0.6 and eveything works like a 
 champ.

 Just my .02 of course if you get it working let me know what you did as 
 I spent a week on it...


but since this isn't my server, I can't downgrade or reset settings. 
*sigh*

Thanks, so far..

Terry



Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Khristopher_Klaich

One thing I did find was to look at your php.ini file and see where the 
session.save_path=/tmp this is now pointing to your server /tmp not the 
apache directory anymore so you will either have to change the permissions 
on that folder so apache can write there or make a directory somewhere 
else and do the same.  That is how I got my sessions to work again and or 
court to make sure it is enabled.  As for the mulitple cookies that is 
still a somthing I have not been able to get to work.

When I posted it in the bugs. section of php.net they said to use the cvs 
apache 2.0.4 version and it should work...but I am not in a position to 
put non-stable things in production.

HTH--
Khris




Terry Romine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
07/03/2002 11:32 AM

 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: php-db [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages


1) no, the commented
   setcookie(user_data,,time()+(3600));// set for 6 weeks *24*7*6
 I would move the *24*7*6 back into the (3600) to make it 
so. I just 
want to test for an hour

2) so maybe this is a problem with the server? I've been tearing my hair 
out because neither cookies nor sessions are acting the way that I have 
done them in the past on a different server.

**sigh**

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 10:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is this a issue with register _globals = off.  try referencing it with
 $_COOKIE['user_data'].
 Also isn't 3600 only an hour.  60secs * 60mins?  i think 6 weeks would
 be...  151200  60 * 60 * 42days
 does that work?

 Jeff


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Re: [PHP-DB] cookies multiple pages

2002-07-03 Thread Terry Romine

just checked and the server is running Apache 1.6.19 and PHP 4.0.6

Terry

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:52 AM, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Trust me this does not work with php 4.2.1 and apache 2.0.39 from what 
 I am told if you get the cvs for apache 2.0.4 it should but I just down 
 graded to apache 1.3.26 and php 4.0.6 and eveything works like a 
 champ.

 Just my .02 of course if you get it working let me know what you did as 
 I spent a week on it...




[PHP-DB] Date Times stuff

2002-07-03 Thread John Fishworld

Banging my head against a wall with this !
Hope someone can help !

Using MySQL

Trying to list cities with events for that month
I've correctly (i think) formatted my date to a datetime style for MySQL
$month is there chosen one

 $tosearch = date(Y-$month-d 00:00:00);

 And then this is my inquiry
$int is the number of days left if current month, 31 otherwise.
But the weird thing is it always returns a result ? even if no events,
and for this month where there are events it returns the city name 3 times
? totally ignoring the distinct !

SELECT DISTINCT t_city_name,t_city_id_city, t_event_date
FROM t_city,t_zipcodecity,t_location,t_event
WHERE (t_city_id_city = t_zipcodecity_id_city)
AND (t_zipcodecity_zipcode = t_location_zipcode )
AND ((t_location_sex = $pref) OR (t_location_sex = 6) OR (t_location_sex =
0))
AND (t_location_id_location = t_event_id_location)
AND (t_event_date  (DATE_ADD('$tosearch', INTERVAL $int day)) )
ORDER by t_city_name

I'm sure its something stupid but 
Can anyone help please!





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[PHP-DB] system help!

2002-07-03 Thread Thomas \omega\ Henning

hey all,

i have this
?php
$today = getdate();
$month = $today['mon'];
$day = $today['mday'];
$year = $today['year'];
$date=$month.-.$day;

$command=mysqldump -uroot --password=* iktato intrat2003 tt.sql;
$test=system($command);
?
When $command=mysqldump -uroot --password=* iktato intrat2003 ; it
works and
when $command=mysqldump -uroot --password=* iktato intrat2003 tt.sql;
it doesn't work.
BUT!!!
i have made a consol script that runs a linux command from a normal input
text box. With that same command it executes it and makes the tt.sql. And im
not using exec() because i need to see the results of it thats why i use
system()

help pls

Thomas omega Henning








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[PHP-DB] Strange characters from MSSQL

2002-07-03 Thread Tim K

Hi there,

Can anybody help me?

I'm building a webinterface to an existing MSSQL database. When displaying
text from the database, strange characters like
?
show up, when I'm supposed to get æ, ø and å (Danish charset).

We're talking PHP4 on IIS5, W2K server. The MSSQL server is on a different
machine.
(A really crappy setup...)

/Tim K






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[PHP-DB] Strange MySQL Query Problem

2002-07-03 Thread eat pasta type fasta

I already got some replies for this but it wasn't it, here is the problem:

I have a simple form which queries the database based on 2 pop-up menu 
choices and keywords entered by the user,
it passes on the variables as follows:

pop-up1=choice1, pop-up2=choice2, textfield=user specified data

the query is as follows

$result = mysql_query(SELECT some_id, some_description, some_feature 
FROM '$pop-up1' WHERE some_description LIKE '%$texfield%' AND 
some_feature LIKE '%$pop-up2');

it tells me that column which equals to the $texfield does not exists, 
meaning that the query seems to be fed wrong? No idea here, $texfield and 
$pop-up2 are not requests for tables but matches in those tables

a bit buffled I am, I've these queries before on larger web servers, this 
is the first time on my workstation and it does just that, simpler 
queries work fine...

thanks in advance,

R

ps. the form is guarded against empty entries
ps2. RedHat 7.3, Mysql 3.23.51, Apache 1.3+ wik PHP 4.2.1 configured for 
MySQL

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[PHP-DB] A challenge

2002-07-03 Thread jonathan

... At least, I found it challenging.  Hopefully someone here will find this a lot 
easier =) 

I am developing a website wherein customers can log in, enter in the name and type 
of their business (rather like the yellow pages.)  I have a database of all the 
customers, and each table in the database is another type of business.  (For example, 
in the table 'Gyms' all of the places where you can workout will be listed.)   
Currently the database has no tables in it.  When a new type of business registers, 
then the table is created.  In order to prevent many variations of  the same table 
from being created (I.E. Restaurants, Cafe's, Luncheonettes etc) I have customers 
choose what type of business they are from a pull down menu.  
 Here is the challenge: I would like my users who come to browse to see a similar 
pull down menu, but I want this menu only to list those types of businesses that have 
registered.  Essentially I would like the pull down menu customers see to be a dynamic 
list of names of existing tables, updating for each new table that is created. 
 As for how to do this I'm stuck.  It seems that it must be php that modifies an 
html form.  Any suggestions?? Deeply appreciated.  Thanks.

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Re: [PHP-DB] Strange MySQL Query Problem

2002-07-03 Thread Martin Clifford

From your query, it looks as if you are letting the user select the table that they 
can query with $pop-up1.  Is that correct?

If so, do all the available choices of tables have the same column names?  Other than 
that I can't see why this query would fail.

Martin

 eat pasta type fasta [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/02 04:27PM 
I already got some replies for this but it wasn't it, here is the problem:

I have a simple form which queries the database based on 2 pop-up menu 
choices and keywords entered by the user,
it passes on the variables as follows:

pop-up1=choice1, pop-up2=choice2, textfield=user specified data

the query is as follows

$result = mysql_query(SELECT some_id, some_description, some_feature 
FROM '$pop-up1' WHERE some_description LIKE '%$texfield%' AND 
some_feature LIKE '%$pop-up2');

it tells me that column which equals to the $texfield does not exists, 
meaning that the query seems to be fed wrong? No idea here, $texfield and 
$pop-up2 are not requests for tables but matches in those tables

a bit buffled I am, I've these queries before on larger web servers, this 
is the first time on my workstation and it does just that, simpler 
queries work fine...

thanks in advance,

R

ps. the form is guarded against empty entries
ps2. RedHat 7.3, Mysql 3.23.51, Apache 1.3+ wik PHP 4.2.1 configured for 
MySQL

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[PHP-DB] PHP with htaccess files

2002-07-03 Thread Larentium

RE: PHP with htaccess files...

Has anyone used basic http authentication with htaccess files that reference password 
files and used PHP scripts that could add new users to the password file?

I wanted to use a PHP login page, but most of the site I want to protect is already 
written in html and I do not want to go through the entire site changing the 
extensions and adding an include statement to reference the login script.

So I am wondering if there is any thing I need to consider or worry about when using 
php with htaccess security...

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Larentium
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[PHP-DB] problem getting data from mysql into backend.csv...

2002-07-03 Thread matthew

hello.

  we are new to this list and new to php so forgive me if this is a dumb 
question but we are stuck...


we are trying to setup the event calendar script that
http://www.php.net uses on their front page. The only problem I'm having is
getting the information from the mysql database to the backend.csv file that
it uses. Everything is working properly included the submitting of the
events, and the data is being imported correctly. Has only used this script
before, or maybe has some ideas on what I need to check? Thanks in advance.


matthew de Jongh
president
the spa! internet
voice (413) 539-9818
www.the-spa.com


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[PHP-DB] Join on insert???

2002-07-03 Thread Jefferson Cowart

I am writing scripts to load user data into a MySQL database. I have
tables in the DB called People and PeopleEmail. The PeopleEmail table
stores one email address per record with one of the columns
corresponding to the PID of the people table. Is there a way to run a
single query that will insert the data into the people table and then
take the auto generated pid and use it to insert the email into people
email. Right now I envision having to use 3 queries (1 insert into
people, a select to retrieve the PID, and then another insert to insert
the email.) Is there an easier way?


Thanks
Jefferson Cowart
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RE: [PHP-DB] Strange MySQL Query Problem

2002-07-03 Thread Jen Swofford

Could this be as simple as a typo?

textfield
texfield

Jen Swofford
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 -Original Message-
 From: eat pasta type fasta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:27 PM
 To: PHP LIST
 Subject: [PHP-DB] Strange MySQL Query Problem


 I already got some replies for this but it wasn't it, here is the problem:

 I have a simple form which queries the database based on 2 pop-up menu
 choices and keywords entered by the user,
 it passes on the variables as follows:

 pop-up1=choice1, pop-up2=choice2, textfield=user specified data

 the query is as follows

 $result = mysql_query(SELECT some_id, some_description, some_feature
 FROM '$pop-up1' WHERE some_description LIKE '%$texfield%' AND
 some_feature LIKE '%$pop-up2');

 it tells me that column which equals to the $texfield does not exists,
 meaning that the query seems to be fed wrong? No idea here, $texfield and
 $pop-up2 are not requests for tables but matches in those tables

 a bit buffled I am, I've these queries before on larger web servers, this
 is the first time on my workstation and it does just that, simpler
 queries work fine...

 thanks in advance,

 R

 ps. the form is guarded against empty entries
 ps2. RedHat 7.3, Mysql 3.23.51, Apache 1.3+ wik PHP 4.2.1 configured for
 MySQL

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Re: [PHP-DB] A challenge

2002-07-03 Thread kodrik

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 13:27, you wrote:
 ... At least, I found it challenging.  Hopefully someone here will find
 this a lot easier =)

 I am developing a website wherein customers can log in, enter in the
 name and type of their business (rather like the yellow pages.)  I have a
 database of all the customers, and each table in the database is another
 type of business.  (For example, in the table 'Gyms' all of the places
 where you can workout will be listed.) Currently the database has no tables
 in it.  When a new type of business registers, then the table is created. 
 In order to prevent many variations of  the same table from being created
 (I.E. Restaurants, Cafe's, Luncheonettes etc) I have customers choose what
 type of business they are from a pull down menu. Here is the challenge: I
 would like my users who come to browse to see a similar pull down menu, but
 I want this menu only to list those types of businesses that have
 registered.  Essentially I would like the pull down menu customers see to
 be a dynamic list of names of existing tables, updating for each new table
 that is created. As for how to do this I'm stuck.  It seems that it must be
 php that modifies an html form.  Any suggestions?? Deeply appreciated. 
 Thanks.

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 -- Jonathan

I'm not sure I understand, but you could set it:
* A table with customers
* A table with business types
* A link table with that holds the key to a customer and a business type.

A customer can belong to different business type.
When a new business is created, you just add an entry to the business type 
table
When a customer assigns himself a business type, you just add a record for 
this association in the link table.

To get the list of business type:
select id, name from busitype order by name asc

For a search with the $busitypeid variable, you just do
select customers.id, customers.name from link
  left join customers on link.custid=customers.id
 where link.typeid=$busitypeid

I really don't see you would create tables for every business type.


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