PHP :: Multiple Drop Down List Problem And MySQL

PHP And MYSQL Drop Down List
I need a script to create a drop down list which has vehicle makes. The vehicle make list should feed a vehicle model list so when I select a make all the models for the make appear in the model list. I have a make table which has MAKE_ID, make NAME and a model table which has MODEL_ID, MAKE_ID and model NAME.

I tried using a script using javascript array but wherever I have a query that pulls the NAME from the database there's always a carriage return after the NAME which messes up the javascript array. I'd rather do it all with PHP if possible. If not please give me one that works and I don't have to spend hours troubleshooting.

Displaying Data From Mysql Database In A Drop Down List On Form.
I'm trying to do is display data from two different mysql tables from the same database in a drop down list on a html form. I have a fixtures table with the player1(userid), player2(userid), gameid, game, score1 and 2, what I want is to use the userid to get the players first name and surname from the members table (as it is a unique id), I need to do this bit before displaying it in the drop down. I think i need 2 querys to do this but when I have tried it it just echo's a blank value or the userid not the forname and surname that I want. I'm using the fetch_array function but just can't see where I'm going wrong, Code:

Drop Down List
I want to read a directory for available files and then get the filenames and put them in a drop down list. Whatever the user will select will be the value of the variable $selected. I already found the code to read directories: Code:

Php And Drop Down List
I am coding an email form on a site. A user enters their name and contact email and then selects from a drop down list to which particular email the message should be sent: User1, User2, User3. Then the user types out a message and hits submit. My problem is that I am unsure as to how to grab the selection in the drop down list and pull the selection and place it like this: "$selection@domain.com". Here is the php code:

Drop Down Box To A List Box
i have this drop down box that displays the relevant info from the table that its loading. But the drop down box isn't quite so wise to use if there hundreds of rows. So what i wanted to do was change it to a list box instead ... would any one know how to do that? Code:

A Dynamic Drop Down List
I need to create a dynamic drop down list. By this i mean that the webpage html form = select style will recieve all the values as based on a query to a mysql database. I have no problems quering the data base with PHP, But i need to make some kind of for loop that will add a new value to the selct form for each result from the database. my thought process go like this.

1. call data base to guery. (no problem)

2. make variable variables that will be created according to the number of results (these variables must be created according to results of query, not a problem i think)

3. make a form like this

<form action = ***** method = post>
<select name = ******>
<option value = "This is a query result"> This is a query result> //This is the part i need to using a for loop and variable variables
</select></form>

so my problem is part 3, cause is this all done in PHP, or if i had all these variables, can i do this in HTML? Can i make a for loop in PHP that would break into HTML during these parts?

Very Simple Drop-down List...
Hi! I'm having a problem with a very simple drop-down list since the
page comes out with no elements in the drop-down but giving no errors.
This is the code:

<form name="year_search_form" method="post" action="results.php">
<select name="select_year" id="select_year">
<?
$query="SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY year";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query. "
..mysql_error());

while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
print ("<OPTION value=".$line['year']."></OPTION>"); }
?>
</select>
</form>

Drop Down List From An Array
I want the array to contain a valid year of birth for anyone between the ages of 16 and 80. I'm pretty sure this code is correct.(though it might be a bit sloppy to all you pros) Code:

Drop Down List With Months
I am trying to create a drop down list that has December 2006 as the first option and then goes up month and years till the current month and year (September 2007).

Putting List Into Drop Down
I am working on a directory of businesses which has 8 main categories and each category has several sub-categories. Example: Dining is a Category with Pizza, Fast Food, Chinese, etc. I have the sub-categories brought up in just a list on the left side of the page and when the user clicks on a sub-category it takes them from client_list.php to client_filter.php only showing businesses in that sub-category of the main category.

So only pizza places listed under dining. However, I want to change the list to a (form) select box and then have the user click on the sub-category they want and then it takes them to the client_filter.php page to list only those bussinesses in that sub-categorie. So after that long explanation how do I change my code to do that. Here is my current code:

Insert From An Drop-down List
i have a table in wich i've inserted city's name.then i have an registration form in wich i want to display an dropdown list with the cities from the table, and if one city is selected to be automaticly added in the second table. how can i do that?

Custom Drop Down List
I am trying to get categories from the database and show them in a drop down list showing root category then their sub category underneath. Code:

Folder List Drop-Down
I am developing a PHP/MySQL project and as part of my initial setup and configuration scripts, the users can select a skin for the application, and a variable value ($skin) is updated to set the current skin, this works ok on it's own, but currently the user must manually type the skin name in a free-text box.

Ideally this needs to be a drop-down option box, and I would like this to be populated by listing the sub-folders within the '/skins' folder, so that it's always up to date. The folder structure looks like this:

/skins
/skins/skin1
/skins/skin2
/skins/skin3

How can I use PHP to generate a list of the current sub-directories in 'skins' and populate the drop-down list?

How Do You Pass A Value From A Drop Down List?
I am completely new to this. I don't understand how to receive a value from a drop down list <select> menu. I have read many tutorials and none of them explain the process of receiving the sent data.

Drop Down List Of Months
I am trying to create a drop down list with 12 months as the contents. I need to be able to determine what the latest month is and then put the 11 months before into it (in the correct order). For example, it is September 2007 obviously at the moment, so that will need to be the last and latest month in the list. The other 11 will be in reverse order going back to August 2006.

Chained Drop Down List Working Example
Could some PHP guru please help me? I looking for a good working
example of chained dropdown list.

2 Drop Down List Where Need Query Database
there is drop down list box linked to the database where it displays the state of a country and once the user clicks on the particular state, there purpose to be radio button displaying the locations available of that state, the location displayed in radio buttons are from the database. currently the source code i'm using is (which uses a submit button to query the database but i does not want the submit button it purpose to work using Code:

Dynamic Drop-down List In Array
Q. How do I create a dynamically-generated drop-down list for use in
an array.

I'm using PHP with a MySQL database (through phpMyAdmin)

My database table is called com_courses, and I want to pull the
distinct 'title' fields and have them appear as a drop down menu for
the user to select in a form.

Here is my array, with (at the moment) manually-entered 'titles'
(which I now need to be dynamically generated from my database field:
'com_courses.title'

array (
"coursetitle",
"Course Title:",
$EXTRA_SELECTLIST,

array ("Report Writing", "Recruitment & Selection", "Presentation
Skills", "Essential Telephone Skills", "Time Managememt", "Customer
Care", "Other"),
0
),

I am not an experienced programmer, but can play around with php to
customize programs. I've read up on arrays (I bought a "Programming
with PHP and MySQL" book, but it just stops short of this problem). I
can't figure this one out.

Populating A Drop Down List With The Year
i'm trying to loop the years from 1960 - 2010 with the function get_year() below:
PHP Code:

Automatically Drop Down A List Of Phrases
I would like to know why when I go to a site like altavista.com and start to type in a phrase to search on does it automatically drop down a list of phrases that I have previously searched on, and how do I get rid of these from showing when I go to search.

I removed all of my cookies that were stored in my temporary internet folder. Is there somewhere else I should be looking. I am using IE 5.0 on a windows 98 machine.

How Do You Insert A Value From Drop Down List To SQL Table?
I am a bit new to PHP and SQL so this may seem like a dumb question.

I have already created a drop down list as part of a form which is
automatically populated with values taken from a separate database. When a
user goes onto this page and either leaves the default value or selects a
value from the drop down list and presses the submit button, I would like
that selected value to be stored into a database which I have already
created in SQL.

Just to let you know that I can do the above using a text field but just
don't know how to do it with drop down list.

If your going to explain any coding then it may help if I give you the names
of certain items that are involved.

Database is called "Company"
Field within database is called "Name"

Load Runner, Drop Down List
Can anyone send me the script for supplying the values in drop down
list of the web page?
I have couple of drop down list controls in my web page. I need to
supply multiple values for each dropdown list in my script. How can i
do that? can you send me the script for this?

PLEASE HELP - Drop Down List Related Question
I am creating a dynamic dropdown
list using a code snippet(Section A) as below:
Section A:
$sql_query=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT semester, year from
schoolproject_pics ORDER BY year
DESC");
echo "<select name="semester" onchange="GoTo()">";
echo "<option value="$semester">-Semester Year-</option>";
while($data = mysql_fetch_array($sql_query)){
if($data[semester]==@$semester && $data[year]==@$year){
echo "<option value
selected="$data[semester]">$data[semester]:$data[year]</option><BR>";
}
echo "<option
value="$data[semester]">$data[semester]:$data[year]</option>"; }
echo "</select>";
mysql_free_result($sql_query);

The 'GoTo()' Javascript re-draws the same page with the chosen values
of 'semester' and 'year' so that
the values can be recovered by $_HTTP_GET_VARS, stored in two hidden
variables and then used in
another query to create another dynamic drop-down list, as in code
snippet (Section B).

$semesternow=$HTTP_GET_VARS['semester'];
$yearnow=$HTTP_GET_VARS['year'];
if((isset($semesternow) and strlen($semesternow) 0) and
(isset($yearnow) and strlen($yearnow) 0)){
print("<input type="hidden" ID="semesterchosen"
value="$semesternow">");
print("<input type="hidden" ID="yearchosen"
value="$yearnow">");
$sql_query2=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT school from
schoolproject_pics
WHERE semester='$semesternow' AND
year='$yearnow'");
echo "<select name="school" onchange="GoMore()">";
echo "<option value="$school">-- School --</option>";
while(list($school) = mysql_fetch_array($sql_query2)){
echo "<option value="$school">$school</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
mysql_free_result($sql_query2);

Now the question:
When the page is re-drawn, how can the values of semester and year
previously chosen, be displayed in the first drop down list. I tried to
do it using the following, but it does not do anything:

f($data[semester]==@$semester && $data[year]==@$year){
echo "<option value
selected="$data[semester]">$data[semester]:$data[year]</option><BR>";
}

How To Display .txt Info Into Drop Down List
list out all the items from a file (data.txt) into drop down box for user to select.

Eg. inside (data.txt) has
Apple
Orange
Strawberry
etc...

How do I create a drop down list that can call out everything from data.txt (until end of file)??

Trying To Select Names From A Drop Down List And Display Them
So, I already have the code written where I have a drop down menu with names in it. I want to be able to select multiple names from the drop down list and have them display in a table below the drop down menu. First off, I can't get one name to display, not to mention multiples. :p How may I accomplish this?

CODE:

Error Correction On Drop Down List & Sessions
Hi I'm doing a site at the mo and I have to do error correction on a form. I have most of it done except one or two bits. What I'm having trouble with is drop down lists. What happens is someone fills in the form, it's not done properly so it gets redirected back to the form. Everything works right except the drop down list. The sessions carries over alright but I can't get the drop down list session to work. It marks the session as selected but it's not displayed the first option is displayed. So if you picked Germany and America was first on the list. After being submited America would be displayed but Germany would be checked.

Here is what I got

Correction page

$_SESSION["country"] = $_POST["country"];
if($_SESSION["country"] == Ɔ'){
header("Location: /acc1.php");
}

Form page

echo ' <td><select name="country" id="country" style="width: 150px;">'
if (!isset($_SESSION["courtry"])){
echo '<option value="0" checked="checked"></option>'
}

$rslt = mysql_query($dscntry);
if($rslt){
while ($rws = mysql_fetch_array($rslt)) {
if (!isset($_SESSION["country"])){
echo '<option value="'.$rws["countryid"].'">'.$rws["countries"].'</option>'
}
elseif(isset($_SESSION["country"])){
if($_SESSION["country"] == $rws["countryid"]){
echo '<option value="'.$rws["countryid"].'" checked="checked">'.$rws["countries"].'</option>'
// else{
// echo '<option value="'.$rws["countryid"].'">'.$rws["countries"].'</option>'
// }
}
}
}
}
echo '</select>'

Dynamic Drop-down List With Array - Question
Can anyone out there give me a pointer regarding creating a
dynamically-generated drop-down list connected to an array?

And is that question as clear as chocolate spread?

Here's what I've got. I'm using PHP and MySQL database. I'm customizing
some calendar software, and I want the user to fill in a form by
selecting a title from a drop-down list, generated by my MySQL
database. However, the program I'm customizing uses arrays, which is
where I'm stumped.

What do I need to add to this code to make the array of titles(eg
"report writing" etc) come from my database, rather than the
manually-entered values that you can see here.

The field I want to pull from is called com_courses.title

array (
"coursetitle",
"Course Title:",
$EXTRA_SELECTLIST,

array ("Report Writing", "Recruitment & Selection", "Presentation
Skills", "Essential Telephone Skills", "Time Managememt", "Customer
Care", "Other"),
0
),

I hope it's not cheeky to ask this,
BTW I bought a book on Programming with PHP and MySQL, but it doesn't
answer this question,

How To Response Immediately When I Select The Drop-box List
Do you have any idea when I try to select a drop box list, the data
will show up in the following textbox immediately?

eg.

Name:
---------------
drop-box list | <- when i select one of them
---------------

Age:
---------------
Textfield 1 | <- pop up immediately
---------------

Address:
---------------
Textfield 2 |
---------------

Saving/Loading Data In Drop-down List
I have a drop-down list with set values. When there is a corresponding value in my database when the page loads I want the drop-down list to pick the appropriate value from the list. Instead it always defaults to the first value. Can anyone give me an example of how to do this?

Also, one time after adding a variable to a classes file this symbol: ï»¿ started showing up on all of my pages. Has anyone seen this before? I can't find any information on the web about it.

Populate A Drop Down List In A Form On The Basis Of A First Selection
I have developed a form to register a property in a db. The form needs the selection of a country and then based on that selection the selection of regions from the selected country. I have a program which allows selection of a country and then a region but it uses java script which I would like to avoid. I also just wanted one submit button if possible. Code:

Select From Drop List To Fill Table Column With Text -- HOW ?
I want viewers to compare state laws on a single subject.

Imagine a three-column table with a drop-down box on the top. A viewer
selects a state from the list, and that state's text fills the column below.
The viewer can select states from the drop down lists above the other two
columns as well. If the viewer selects only one, only one column fills. If
the viewer selects two states, two columns fill. Etc.

I could, if appropriate, have a separate htm page with the text for each
state -- california.htm for example. When the viewer selects California from
the drop down list, the column below would "fill" with California.htm.

Or, I could conceivably use a text or mysql database with two fields for
each record: state_name and law_text -- but it would probably be easier to
use separate htm files, since there will only be about 20 states involved,
and the "database" would never have a large number of records.

The table width would be 100% and each cell would be @33%

My site is designed with FP 2002 and runs on Apache/FreeBSD. I have just had
Apache-ASP installed but I have not yet configured or used the module.

Multiple Drop Down Search
i created two dropdown lists. One lists the months. And one lists the years. I want to be able to populate a sql query with the choices the user makes in the dropdown to display the correct choices. PHP Code:

Multiple Drop Down Boxes
I want to create two multiple drop down boxes, the first will display all the company names, once this has been selected all the stock information for that company will appear in the second drop down boxes.

Multiple Selectiosn From Drop Down
I have a drop down box that I want people to be able to choose one or more of the options (multiple selection). How do I make mysql recognise this and add all entries into the table.

Multiple Dynamic Drop Down Population
I have a table with 3 pieces of data that I would like to use to
dynamically populate 3 drop downs using javascript. The fields are
state, orgname, office. If it's not already obvious, I'd like orgname
drop down to change when a state is selected and I would like office
drop down to change when an orgname is selected. I can do this with
multiple tables but am having difficulty getting it to work when the
data is in the same table. Below is the code to get state and orgname
from separate tables(the code reflects one table and is broken in the
below state). It's the best I can come up with and I can see why it
doesn't work but I know there must be a way to pull all the pieces from
a single table.

<code>
$list=$_SESSION['list'];
if(isset($list) and strlen($list) 0){
$quer=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT orgname,org_id FROM organization
WHERE state=$list ORDER BY orgname");
}else{$quer=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT orgname FROM organization ORDER
BY orgname"); }
$quer2=mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT state FROM organization ORDER BY
state");

//first drop down
echo "<select name='state' onchange="reload(this.form)"><option
value=Ɔ'>Select one</option>";
while($state = mysql_fetch_array($quer2)) {
if($state['org_id']==@$list){echo "<option selected
value='$state[state]'>$state[state]</option>"."<BR>";}
else{echo "<option value='$state[state]'>$state[state]</option>";}
}
echo "</select>";

//next drop down
echo "<select name='org'><option value=''>Select one</option>";
while($org = mysql_fetch_array($quer)) {
echo "<option value='$org[org_id]'>$org[orgname]</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
</code>

Multiple Search With More Than 2 Drop Down Menu
I have problem with multiple search with more than 2 drop down menu. After submit from search.htm, in the results.php page i dont get results or error and i dont know where the problem is. look my code and tell me if you see something or error in sourcecode PHP Code:

Multiple Drop Down's For Search
I am looking at adding a search section to my site whereby visitors select
from two drop down menu's and the desired page is displayed.

Similarly to many friend finder sites whereby you can select the age,sex
and
country of the person you are searching for.

Is there a way to do this without needing a database ?

Filtering Selection In Multiple Drop Down Boxes
I want to allow a user to conduct a search on a database using multiple drop down boxes.
On the first page they will have a drop box filled with records from field A. Once they select which one they want, a second drop down box will then appear with records from field B which are present for field A (a filter).

What I want though is that the first dwon down box still appears on the second page, but shows the record that the user selected. What is happening now is that when the second page comes up, the first box shows the default selection rather than the selection that the user chose. My code for the drop down boxes is: PHP Code:

Auto Populating Multiple Drop Downs.
im trying to create two dropdowns, i need the first one to be the category and the second one to be the subcategory. The category drop down autopopulates with the correct info from the database. and uses the table "category", the value of each drop down is represented by the "cat" field in the table (cat is basically and integer id number) and "Category" is used as what the user actually sees in the drop down (category is the actual word of the category).

Once the category is selected i would like to have the sub category auto populate with everything that has the same values as the selected category (cat)

Here is a break down of how the tables work.

Table 1 Name: "category"
Fields for Table 1: "cat" (the id number), "category" ( the actual name of the category)

Table 2 Name: "subcategory"
Fields for Table 2: "cat" (corresponds with the cat id from table 1 to pull the correct data), "subc" (the basic id of the subcategory), "subcat" the actual name of the subcategory.

so the way i see it, have a normal drop down populated by a php query. then on change, populate subcategory drop down where cat = cat and display sub category.

List Box Multiple Select
I am trying to create a drop down list that permits a person to select multiple items from the list and have the results posted on a results page. I am using Dreamerweaver MX, PHP and a MYSQL database. I was able to select multiple items but only the last selected item would be displayed. I tried to modify the list box code and now it returns nothing. Code:

Dynamically Populate Drop-down List And Dynamically Include Html File
We have a drop down list on a PHP page, with several product names, and
when people click one item, we will refresh the same page with the
product name as parameter, and in turn we want to include a HTML file
into the content area of the same page.

I know it is recommended to put everything into database, but we want
the web site to be very "portable", so the drop-downlist and the
content should both in text files.

Let's say the drop-down list will be poplulated from the product.txt
file, and there will be a file for each corresponding item in the
drop-down list. From the user point of view, if he wants to add a new
product, he will just need to open the product.txt file, and add a new
line with the product name, "Laptop", then add a new text file named
"laptop" in the same folder which contains the HTML fragment to be
included in the content area.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Multiple Entries In On Column/List Box
I'm creating a page where members can edit their research information. I'm going to have 12 List Boxes, each with about 20-25 words. I want the user to be able to choose as many as they need (by control+click) - and store them all in the database. I expect each member to only have about 4-5 .. but you never know.

The information they submit, all 4 or 5 or however many keywords, will need to be easily searchable on the main page. I also am going to need to make it easy for them to edit/update their keywords. My question is - which is the best way to do this? Do I dumb all the selected values into one column of a table? then when doing a search just do a text search?

And how do I implement the update page? I know how to show previous text in a text form field, but is there a way the options they chose can be pre-selected when they go to update their research?

How To Remove Last Comma From A Multiple List?
I have a multiple select list in my site where the values are inserted in a database table, in a column named available_country. I enter these values in the db separated with comma. I don't know however how to remove the last comma so it will be something like this:

USA, Europe, Asia

and not:

USA, Europe, Asia,

Here's what I tried but it didn't worked: ...

Passing Multiple Selections In A List To A Variable
I have a form with a Select box as follows: <SELECT NAME=msgtype SIZE=6 multiple> and in that are 6 options. If I pick one, it is passed to a query reading something like: SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE msgtype LIKE '$msgtype'

This doesn't work if they chose two or more of the items in my SELECT box. How can I make it work if they do? I already have a "All of the above" that passes the value "%%" to the query to search in all of the six options, but want users to be able to search 2-5 of the options at once as well.

Posting Form List Multiple Values ?
how to get the values using post from a multiple list form when more than one value is selected ?.. is it possible ?

Insert Data From Multiple Select List
Am trying to insert data into a mysql database from a multiple select list. How would i do this? Code:

Retrieving Full Entry From Multiple Select List
I have a list box with multiple selects. I define the name as numList[]. I
get the values from

$picked = $_POST['numList'];

It retrieves values for all those selected.

If the entries are, say,
First
Second
Third

and the first and third are select then $picked[0] has "First" and
$picked[1] has "Third".
If, however, the entries are:

First one
Second one
Third one

Then the values are for $picked[0] and $picked[1] are "First" and "Third"
respecticely.
How do I retrieve the entire value and not just the first word?

Multiple Drop Down List Problem And MySQL

I am trying to populate around 30 drop down lists via a single query to a mySQL database. The problem is how to make sure that each drop down list only display it's relevant data. for example the table is as follows: