Re: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-21 Thread John W. Holmes
From: andy amol I am using the following code, but it is not populating my script. If you can help I would be grateful. I am using mysql as database. ? $sql = SELECT course_id FROM course; $sql_result = mysql_query($sql) or die(Couldn't execute query.); while ($row =

Re: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-20 Thread Torsten Lange
I use html forms with select field size 1 and the option values and/or what is supposed to appear in the box. This you populate by your DB query, maybe using an array and a loop (from 0 to ..). Torsten andy amol schrieb: hi, I would like to know how to create and populate drop down boxes in

Re: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-20 Thread Andras Got
You mean select/select html dropdown-s? print 'select name=sg'; $r = mysql_query(SELECT id, field1, fieldn FROM table WHERE fieldn = 'sg'); while($RESULT = mysql_fetch_array($)) { print 'option value='.$RESULT['id'].''.$RESULT['fieldn']'./option'; } print '/select'; Validating: just check

Re: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-20 Thread John W. Holmes
From: andy amol [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to know how to create and populate drop down boxes in php. I want the value to be populated from database. What I am try to do is to provide the forign key value as combo box option, so that I do not have to check for referential integrity.

RE: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-20 Thread Robert Sossomon
If it is a MySWL database, the following code works great ? $sql = select choice, description from views; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); $viewing = ; $viewing .= select name=\view_code\\n; while ($view_list = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $view_code = $view_list[choice];

Re: [PHP-DB] Drop-down box in php

2004-04-20 Thread andy amol
hi, I am using the following code, but it is not populating my script. If you can help I would be grateful. I am using mysql as database. ? $sql = SELECT course_id FROM course; $sql_result = mysql_query($sql) or die(Couldn't execute query.); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result))