PHP :: Displaying Database Records Over Multiple Columns

Displaying Database Information In Columns
I have a database with products in and I want iT to automatically show every product on the page. Now I am able to do this easy enough but what I am struggling to do is that I want the products to be displayed in 3 columns. I can get them to display one under the other easy enough but I want them to be in rows with 3 columns instead.

Displaying Multiple Items From Database
what i have is a page that has four sections. what i want to have is when the page opens, in that page i want the lastest two items for each section from a database to be displayed. the items to be displayed are an image, a title and a description. but i also want the description to be shortend to say about 25-30 words or about 100 chars, if thats easier?

so in the end i have 4 sections, each showing the lastest two items for each section.

would the best way to do this be to have a seperate table in the database for each of the sections? or would i be able to do it from one table?

would i have to creat a query for each of the sections?
e.g:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE section=section

Displaying Priorty Records And Normal Records In The One Dataset.
I have a page which displays the records from the database and uses paging to display the records in groupes of 10 per page.

I now want to be able to show results depending on the database field (display) in the database (can be set to either "full" or "limited"). If the record and the field display is equal to "full" i want to then display this record at the top of the record set and display all the fields.

If the record is equal to "limited" i want to display different results and they must show after all the records which are equal to "full". I can't output two different recordsets as i use paging and only want to show 10 records per page. Code:

Break MySQL Records Into CSS Columns Automatically
I'm making a page of links, each assigned a category. There are two tables - "favourites_links" and "favourites_categories". This is how the links currently appear:

Category 1 Name
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

Category 2 Name
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

What I want to do is break my page into columns. Basically, set a number of columns (e.g. 3), count the total records, and work out how many records to show per column. Each column should be enclosed in a <div class="column"> wrapper, which floats to the left. Code:

Displaying Columns With A Value
what is the most efficient way to display column names from a database that only have the value '1' in its fields??

I cant seem to work it out, could someone give me a code example??

Displaying Rows Of Data As Columns?
Does anyone know of an efficient way to retreive data from a mysql db
and display the record rows as collumns?

I have been doing this:
<display headers>
<while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { >
<display row 1 of result>
<display row 2... } >
<end table>

but I want to do this instead:
<col 1 header > <row 1 col 1> <row 2 col1> <row3 col1>
<col 2 header> <row 1 col 2> <row 2 col2> <row3 col2>
<col 3 header> <row 1 col 3> <row 2 col3> <row3 col3>

Displaying Some Records Once Only
I'm building a database via mysql/php which brings back records of events. My problem is that I only want to show the Venue for the event once and then list the events for that venue. ie Code:

Sort 2D Arrayby Multiple Columns?
is there an easy function/ class for sorting a 2D array multiple
fields. I would like to specify a primary sort and secondary sort.

Searching Multiple Mysql Columns
I'm currently building a database of local businesses, I'm quite new to using php and mysql. While I'm mostly managing to stumble my through it, a couple of things are confusing me. This is one of the things. If anyone can help, that would be really great.

Ok, so I've build a search page, and a results page and it works great but there is one problem. Currently it will only search through the 'name' column, but I'd also like it to search through the 'type' column at the same time.

This is the code I'm using to fetch the results
$colname_Businesses = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['search_par'])) {
$colname_Businesses = $_POST['search_par'];
}
mysql_select_db($database_HBBA_DATABASE, $HBBA_DATABASE);
$query_Businesses = sprintf("SELECT * FROM Businesses WHERE name LIKE %s", GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname_Businesses . "%", "text"));
$query_limit_Businesses = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_Businesses, $startRow_Businesses, $maxRows_Businesses);
$Businesses = mysql_query($query_limit_Businesses, $HBBA_DATABASE) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Businesses = mysql_fetch_assoc($Businesses);

I'm not sure what to add in to make it also search through the 'type' column or where to put that. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Displaying # Of Records In A Table
Can anyone throw me a link to some prefab code, or a tutorial on how I can get a page to display the number of records that meet a certain criteria.

example:
I have a page that stores information on audio FX. I'd like to include a feature that would let the users know how many items are in a particular section.

Player (10)
Items (5)
Weapons (0)
etc.

All help appreciated,

Displaying Unique Records
I've got a database table named 'sales' where each sale has these fields:

Displaying Records, But Not Identical Ones.
I have a table with several rows. One column is "State", where, of course, a state is listed. I'd like to query the database and list all states in the rows, but I don't want multiple instances of the same state? How can I prevent it from showing:

Displaying The Next/previous Records
I'm trying to stick some PHP code onto next and previous buttons to display the next / previous 10 records, then using;

$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM property_1 WHERE area='$whatarea' LIMIT $limitit,10");

but if the above code and the buttons themselves are on the same page how do you stick PHP code on the buttons to do the limitit+10 and limitit-10 and also to call the page?

Displaying Records After 2 Days
I trying to display only records that are 2 days old so the owner of the site can preview new records before they are available to others, this is what I've got so far...
$sqlquery = "SELECT headline, news, date_format(date,'%M %D %Y') as time FROM $table WHERE date < NOW() ORDER BY date DESC";

is there a way to extend it by 1 or 2 days, i've tried the TO_DAY function but couldn't get it to work either.

Sorting DB Entries Over Multiple Pages (and Columns)
I am making an image gallery, and have previously had problems sorting the database entries over several columns, that is now sorted.

However, I don't know how to make the entries on page 2 to begin from image 10, page 3 to begin from image 19 etc (given that I am using a 3x3 table so 9 images per page. Here is the code that prints the URLs of the images (i am working with text, rather than IMG tags until it works): PHP Code:

Selecting Multiple Columns In The Same Table For A Graph?
I need to select all of the columns and arrage them in to groups so def is one group and distance another and elevation...etc all within the same graph, these would be coloured so distance1 would be the same colour as elevation1 etc. Code:

Displaying Records In A Cyclic Fashion
I use the following code in-order to display records based on the week day.My intention behing writing this one was to display 90 records in a cyclic fashion.(i.e, first 90 on monday, next 90 on tue and so on...)

Displaying Records From Text File
I have the following Code which reads in information from a text file: PHP Code:

Displaying Records In A Split Table?
trying to split up results of a query into a split table. example: PHP Code:

Database Tables And Columns
Is there an easy way to display in my browser window all of the tables and their corresponding column names for a selected mysql database?

Updating Multiple Records
I'll try and explain my problem!!

Database table : Book
Table : BookWords
Fields : BookWordID
Word
Description

I want to show :

The word is $word add your description $description using th code below:

[PHP]$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root","");
mysql_select_db("Books",$db);

$result=mysql_query("select * from Bookwords",$db);
while ($rec=mysql_fetch_array($result)){

$wordid = $rec["BookWordid"];
$description = $rec["description"];

echo "$wordid: <input type=text name=quantity[$description]><br> ";
}

This is ok so far.
Now i want the user to be able to add the description from the form and have the db automatically updated.

I've tried the different methods I've found on this forum and I cant get anything to work!!!

Updating Multiple Records
I have a form that lists query results (members, attributes) side by side, and allows someone to change the given attribute via a pick-list. I'd like to know how all of the member attributes (one for each member listed in the query results) can be updated at once. I have no problem implementing this when just one record is being updated, but as soon as there is more than one record I get into trouble. Here's a little diagram of what I'm trying to do:

------------------------------------------
Name | Attribute
------------------------------------------
Member1 | Pick List
Member2 | Pick List
Member3 | Pick List
" etc " | " etc "
------------------------------------------

| Update |

Updating Multiple Records
As my subject tells, my problem is to update multiple records simultanously.
The post form in html contains in some cases the possibility to update, say, 4 email addresses (all with the field name "email").

How to process the input for such an update query? Yet, I numerated the email field names simply by stitching the counter in the loop on the field name (while generating the html form). Is this a good way to do it? And how to process the update?

UPDATE Multiple Records?
Is there a way to update multiple records with just one query, while all of the rows being updated are sent to the query as variables from different input fields?

For example, if I had 5 different text fields, would there be a way to write one query that would update 5 separate records according to the respective input fields? All of the records that need to be updated would have a User ID row in common, so I could use

UPDATE tablename SET qty='$newqty' WHERE user_id='$user_id' AND item='$item'

But I'm thinking I would have to write 5 different queries, one for each text field i.e.

... SET qty='$newqty1' ... AND item='$item1'
... SET qty='$newqty2' ... AND item='$item2'
... SET qty='$newqty3' ... AND item='$item3'

and so forth.

Editing Multiple Records....
Im trying to make it so that I can sort fo like edit all teh records in a table from one page, and im thinking have it like this:

Field 1.........Field2......Field3..

Record1..................................Button to edit the info in this record
Record2..................................Button to edit the info in this record
Record3..................................Button to edit the info in this record
Record4..................................Button to edit the info in this record

Multiple Records Into One Line
I wish to create a table with columns consisting of member name, member e-mail and a column that contains multiple records associated with a single member name:

| Member name | Member e-mail | Records associated with member |
_____________________________________________________
| member's name | e-mail address | record 1, record 2, record 3 etc. |

Each record (those to be displayed in the column 'record associated with member' in the table has a member id linked to it, the member's name and e-mail are in another table also with the member id. The join between the two mysql tables would be through the member id attribute.

Is there any possible way to put together a script for such a setup?

Linking Multiple Records From Another Table
I'm not sure I'm even thinking about this the right way, but here goes:

I have a table of users. Each one of these users may be associated
with none, one, or many records in another table I call a todo table.
table user = 'id', 'name', 'bla bla bla','todo_list'
table todo = 'id','title','other info'

Suppose user 'id=1253' has on his todo list items 756,241, and 672. I
create a string 756,241,672 and store that string in the user's
todo_list field. Then when I want to display the todo items I get the
string with a query, bust it up into an array, iterate the array and
query the todo table.

I have a gut feeling I'm making it way more complicated than need be.
But I can't think of any other way to do it

Update Multiple Records From One Page
Recently, I had a request to create a page in our database web interface where we can update multiple customer records from one page.

Here's the flow of what we want to do:
1. Search for a customer by name.
2. Bring up a list of the matching customers and the data that is to be changed in text boxes in a table - one customer per row with 6 fields for each that can be modified (6 text boxes).
3. People can update the appropriate fields and click submit button.
(** this is done to this point **)

We may be returning as many as 250 records per search, so efficiency would be pretty important. I am not sure where to go from here. I would guess I should build and array of keys and values from the HTTP_POST_VARS that are submitted and then loop through them to UPDATE the database to the new values. I don't know how to do this, though.

Multiple Records Where One Field Matches
I need all of the records where the $topicID = 1,2,3,4

Here's what I have that's working off an array of checkboxes:

$query = "SELECT * FROM expertise WHERE topicID = '$choice[0],$choice[1],$choice[2],$choice[3]'";

I know this is screwed up. The results are less than reliable. It appears to only pay attention to matches for $choice[0] and then lists results that don't match the other choices selected.

What To Do If There Are No Records In The Database
I am pulling data from the database and displaying it using the code below:

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root");

mysql_select_db("pyramid",$db);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table where area='Wales'",$db);

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

echo "blah blah";

}
?>

What do I do if there are no records? At the moment it just doesn't display anything. How do I get it to display a message saying there are no records?

MySQL Inserting Into Multiple Tables Linked Records
Using MySQL can anyone tell me how to most efficiently insert a collumn
in 'table1' retrieve the id from this record and insert mutliple
records into 'table2' with a collumn for the id in 'table1' which links
the two recordsets

Deleting Records From Database
I have another question about record deletion from
database.

For example, my database has 10 records with ids 1
through 10. If I delete id #10 then everything is good
and all the records are still 1 through 9. However, if
I delete record id #4, then in my db I would have
records 1 through 10 with id #4 missing.

Is there a command that syncs the database? How do I
go about this to keep all the ids in the right order
after the deletion? or What do I need to do to prevent
that from happenning?

Insering Records Into Database
I am trying to insert some records through a form into my database(INTERBASE).I have test1.php where i have two include files, namely:connection.ini and aim.ini
In connection.ini, i have the db connection details and aim.ini, i have the form fields and the sql statements.Now, when i run my program, i am able to see the output, but, they are not inserted into my db.could some body please figure it out. Code:

Retrieve Last Ten Records From The Database
using LIMIT I know how to easily retrieve the first 10 records from the database. But is there an easy way to retrieve the LAST 10 records from the database? e.g

$sql = "SELECT * FROM employees";

How would i retrieve the last 10 records.

Need To Update Multiple Mysql Records With A Single Form Submit
I have a wish list like a shoping caty based on a mysql databse where i retrieve records with php I need to update the quantity which is in a text fields :

input type = text name = quantity[] value = $quantity
input type = checkbor value = $id name = id[]

I need to update quantities based on the primary id represented with id with a single submit.

Generating Multiple Alternating Columns And/or Tables Within Tables
I am having a little bit of trouble generating the code for a table with 2 columns. The columns contain tables within themselves. Not sure why as that part was an existing design. Here is the output so far and it is correct but not how i want it to be (i'll explain) Code:

Sort Pages Of Records From Database
When I sort dates from my sql database, the records sort all in one time.I would like to sort only 20/25 records and after to clik a button and sort other 20/25 records and so on.

Flash Next Button For Database Records
Im making an student profile in flash. The database has already been created for us by our tutors at uni. I need help with my previos and next buttons. my work is due this friday I also have dynamic text boxes for car/bus/train/and bicycle. These data are s'posed to be loaded from the database either as a Yes/No. I cant figure these bits out.

Password Protected Database Records
Let's say that I have a MySQL database with 1 record for each client.

Now one client wants to modify his own record, how do you do just that using PHP?

I created a htaccess form for my clients but the problem I have is that they can edit the records of ALL my clients.

Anybody have a php script to paste here for me?

1 Record In Database But 2 Records Were Selected?
i'm retrieving a record from database. below the record, i have a yes and no button, where i can let user click and then count the number of yes and no.

everything works fine, but when i start to click the yes or no button, my record ,becomes two records. i only have one record in my database, but two same record was displayed.
this is the code: PHP Code:

Random Records From Access Database ?
I am retrieving records from an access database in php.But i want to select random 7 records....how can it be done ?

Limiting Number Of Records Stored In Database
Is there a way I can limit the number of records that are stored in a database? I am using a PHP guestbook script for personal use and only want to save say the last 100 messages.

Displaying Results On Multiple Pages
I have a search query via PHP and MySQL that has list of results, but I only want to show 10 or 15 on a page. Much like Yahoo! or even here on the Devshed forums. I have been working on a system that cycles through all the results with a while loop and a counter. It only displays results >= 11 or <=20 as an example. I am passing that data (the results start point through the url) I am just worried that if the results are in the thousands this system would get very slow.Is there an easier/better way that I am not seeing?

Uploading And Displaying Multiple Images
I am building a website where people can post jobs that need to be done and have laborers bid on them.... Im done with pretty much everything on the site but im having a hard time figuring out how to upload and display multiple images for each job.... I am able to upload and display one image but i can upload multiple images.... Everytime I try to do so, It only displays multiple copies of the first image that i upload. Code:

Automatic Delete From MySQL Database Table Expired Records?
I have a question . . .

how can i delete from MySQL database table automatic expired records ?
?

One think is to make a service that deleting the expired records . . .

Any other method ?

Displaying Select Multiple Box And Using Mysql Join
i have an edit page where the query lists all the information from the database about a business. each business can have multiple types so i made a many-to-many database and now i need to be able to show all the types that are in the db for each business on the edit page. here is what i have so far but it's only selecting the last type of business in the result. PHP Code:

Count Displaying Multiple 0 Instead Of Actural Number
I've been having this problem with the count, i've had it working for the other page, but that one uses a ID tag of 1 - 50. This one uses a jcode thats constantly changing. PHP Code:

Displaying Multiple Queries To Same Table Excluding Different Rows!
i've got a table with 224 town listings and their ID's in it from 6 counties, and I want it to displayin a 6 columned table, each county getting their own column. Anyway, here's what I've got and what's happening: PHP Code:

Displaying Database Records Over Multiple Columns

I am currently using the following to generate a table with a single column with ten entries PHP Code: