PHP :: Populate MySQL With Multiple Text Box Entries

How To Populate HTML Table From Local Text File.
I am looking for a way to populate an HTML table from an external
local text file which looks like this:

DATE/TIME LAT. LON. DEPTH. ML.
-------------------- ---------- ---------- ------- -------
21/03/2005-04:06:03 XX,XX XX,XX 171 3,42
21/03/2005-12:23:53 XX,XX XX,XX 500 5,4
21/03/2005-12:43:10 XX,XX XX,XX 553 5,38
21/03/2005-18:47:51 XX,XX XX,XX 162 3,91
21/03/2005-19:29:49 XX,XX XX,XX 500 3,51
21/03/2005-20:04:51 XX,XX X,X 75 3,72

The file could have more rows (DATA) that I show here. The file is
provided to me on a daily basis and I have to update a web page daily
with the contents of the file.

I considered using JavaScript embedded in the HTML page but I am a
newbie on what scripting for the web it refers.

How can I populate the HTML table with this text file which changes
everyday.

Also, is it possible to use php client-side only, without a server?

How To Populate Data Into Text Fields On Page Load??
I am creating an account management page that shows the user's contact information and I would like to populate the textfields so that the user doesn't have to type in all his information when he wants to change something. I want to have him type in only the information he wants to change or update.

I already have the data displayed on the page. But now I would like to take the data and fill in the textfields with it.

Multiple Blank Entries?
When I go to my secondary page of results after I fill info out on a form on
the first, I get 3 blank entries automatically inserted into the mysql
tables. This second form has these blank entries printing up each time even
if I go in to the second page w/o filling out any info on the first. Is
there a way I could prevent these blank entries from being automatically
entered? Like some code that says that if something is blank then not to
have it entered into the tables? or something easier?

Multiple Entries For Same User?
I am creating this form, and instead of having a huge list of input boxes for visitors to fill out, I am wondering if it is possible to have the user click on add another button, and a new submittion will be added to that persons file.

Preventing Multiple Database Entries.
I am trying to make my form processor detect if an item name submitted to the database already exists I would like to display a message saying the item is already in the db.

I tried something like this

if ($Item_Name == "$row["Item_Name"]") {

print "That item is already in the database";

}

Now I know this is wrong but if someone could point me in the right direction it....

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?

Adding Multiple Entries With One Click
I've written a form in html and use php to process it to my database. What I want to do is make it so that a person can choose a number and then by clicking submit it will create an amount of db entries that corresponds to the number that they chose.

How Do I Control Text Box Pre-Filled Entries
Can someone tell me how to control whether or not a text box is automatically pre-filled. In other words, on some web sites, when you visit them, the username and password automatically fills itself. But on other web sites you have to fill in the username and password each time you visit them.

There is one web site, Yahoo! dot com, where the username and password text boxes are never pre-filled. I have to type in my username and password for Yahoo! dot com each time I restart my browser. It didn't used to be that way. Yahoo!'s web site used to automatically pre-fill the username and password text boxes.

The web site that I'm working on uses cookies. I suppose that I could put a cookie $Name variable in a text box - but there may be a better way of doing it, though.

Refreshing Page Making Multiple Entries
I have a form which accepts input from the user and then inserts data into mysql. The problem is, after user inputs data and a new page is loaded; if the user again presses "refresh" button, the same entries are re-entered into database.

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:

Using Checkboxes To Update Multiple Database Entries
I have a query that shows a list of options that a user can toggle on
or off using a checkbox.

query...
form...
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))...
<input name="menu_show_attribute[]" type="checkbox"
class="checkbox"');
if ($row['menu_show_attribute'] == 1) {
echo (' value="'.$row[menu_id].'" checked />
} else {
echo (' value="'.$row[menu_id].'" />');
}

The list is generated from boolean values in a DB. This populates my
form with checkboxes, some are checked and others are not. I'm using
an if statement to sort it (checked). This works fine.

The problem is when the user un-checks a checkbox, the value does not
get passed and the DB does not update - set/change it to 0. The only
values that get passed are the checkboxes that are checked. Below is
the query / code after the submit button has been pressed. Are radio
buttons the answer? Any help / suggestions would be very much
appreciated.

//process form
for ($i = 0; $i < count($menu_show_attribute); $i++) {

if (isset($menu_id) == 'checked') {
$menu_show_attribute = 1;
} elseif ($menu_show_attribute != 'checked') {
$menu_show_attribute = 0;
}

$query = 'UPDATE menu SET menu_show_attribute = "'.
$menu_show_attribute.'" WHERE menu_id = "'.
$menu_show_attribute[$i].'"'
echo("<br>");
echo $query;
$result = mysql_query($query, $db) or die(mysql_error());
}

Using PHP And MySQL To Populate (select) Menus
I am a newbie to php *gasp* and I am trying to make a <select> drop down menu, but I want the menus populated by information from a field in my database. There are a bunch of entries in the field MUD, that are identical......I would like the menu NOT to repeat identical names. EX... Each name only once, even though it is in the database many times.

How To Populate HTML Form From PHP/MySQL
I have found many examples of how to access an HTML text field from
PHP, but cannot find the reverse - how to load an HTML form from a
MySQL database.

Specifically, I have an HTML form which contains several text boxes
that correspond to the fields in a MySQL file. What I want to do is
call a PHP form that reads one record from MySQL and then populates
all of the HTML fields on the calling form.

The call to MySQL is not a problem - that works and I can use "Echo"
to verify that I have successfully read a record. Now, how do I get
that data back into the original HTML form?

How Can I Populate A Listbox With The Result Of Mysql Query?
I would like to populate a listbox with the result of a mySQL Query.

Populate A Calendar Page With MySQL Data
I'm trying to figure out the best way to populate a Calendar page with data from a database. I have the code that will generate the Table with Days of the week, but I'm at a loss on how to populate this with data from a database.

Do I build the calendar and then for every day that I generate a cell, query the DB or should I load the DB in an Array and compare that to the date of the cell?

Deleting Entries From Mysql
I have business listings that I have pulled from a database(MySQL) and printed to the page, in an admin page, for review. I'm trying to write a script to add and one to delete the listing.

I get an SQL error, 'check the manual for blah blah near " on line 1'

Here is the 'delete script:

Get All Entries From Today (mysql)
I currently have a page that each time a user visits it, the pageid and timestamp is thrown into a mysql daabase.

so the database looks like so:
linkid time
3 2007-08-22 17:26:21
3 2007-08-20 17:26:21
3 2007-08-22 18:36:59
2 2007-08-22 18:37:21

What i need is for php to show the total amount of visits today as per a certain time zone (or if thats not possible, the past 24 hours)

soo..
Search for all occurrences where linkid = 3 today for a specific timezone (or 24 hours)

MORE SPECIFICALLY
User 1: Lives in New York (EST -5)
registers for my site and sends visitors to his linkid (3)

After two days, this is what the mysql table looks like:
linkid time
3 -=- 2007-08-22 17:26:21
3 -=- 2007-08-20 17:26:21
3 -=- 2007-08-22 18:36:59

But mysql time isn't Eastern time, its another timezone. So when a visitor comes to user1's page at 3pm EST, mysql registers the time as 2007-08-22 17:26:21

So... I want to first add/subtract the number of numbers in the mysql database depending upon the user, and then see the amount of visitors for the day.

MYSQL Entries Won't Update
I am trying to update some entries in a mysql database that will append the filename to the end of a thumbnail directory entry. So for example /images/thumb/ would become /images/thumb/12345.jpg.

I am stumped because the below code gives no php or mysql errors but the entries are not updated in the mysql db! Code:

Multi Entries Update To Mysql
Could someone help me to figure out how to upgrade multi entries to Mysql by using PHP?

Say, I have a table on Mysql

id Priority
1 Okay
2 wait
3 later
4 asap
5 hold

Now I want to upgrade that table to:

id priority
1 hold
2 asap
3 okay
4 wait
5 later

Is it possible to upgrade multi entries with one submitt button? If yes, could you tell me how it could be done.

I knew I could do it by each entry (submitt button).

Update priority set priority='$priority' where id = '$id'

Selecting 4 Random MySQL DB Entries?
I have a table set up in my MySQL database called 'features'. This table has 10 entries, but I only want to select 4 random rows and display them out in tables.

Limiting User Mysql Entries
I have a script i'm making which is going to be used to search for reciprocal links on different sites and I have user levels such as free, paid, ect... I want to make it so that if the person signs up as a free user they can only add like 2-3 domains to be searched for their links. How would I limit the number of domains allowed to be searched? Would I limit the number of mysql entries allowed in the table for the domains?

Populating Dropdown With Mysql Entries
I would like to create a combobox in Flash which is populated with mysql data and programmed with php. For example: There are 3 entries in database .ie. apple, bannana, peach. Now these I want in combobox in Flash MX/flash5.

Day View Calendar / Mysql Entries
I am trying to create a day view of a lab resource reservation system. So far, I've been able to generate a day view table with php, using variables for start time, end time and periods. Periods represent intervals on the day view.

I have two columns in the table: the first one starts at the start time (say 8:00) and there is a row for every time until the end time, each row time being increased by the period, ie. 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 where the period is 30 minutes and the end time is 9:00.

My second column in the table is filled with unix timestamps representing the date for that particular row, so the 8:00 row on July 1, 2007 is represented by a timestamp of 1183291200. I then created variables to represent start and end times and date of a reserved lab resource. I did a little switch statement in my second column of my table saying, if that row's timestamp equals the start or end time of my reserved resource, than give it a certain style.

All well and good, except I need to tie this into a mysql database where the reservation details (start, end, date) are stored. Where I am getting fuzzy is how to integrate the query results from the database into my little system. I would like to have that second column pick up the results from my query and display the reservations, but I'm not sure now to do that. I'd like to post the code here, but I'm not sure how to post php code on these forums without getting yelled at for doing it wrong (I did that once, can you tell?)

Select All Unique Collumn Entries In Mysql
Can anyone tell me how you can query mysql for all unique entries into
a particular table collumn. Ive checked the manual but had no luck!

INSERT Into Mysql Alway Make Two Entries
I code some site and because Im a freak I made my own session-handling.
When a user open up my site it will check if there is a ssid in the url
if not generate one. this will be done by a function generate_ssid() and works fine.
next step is to register the ssid in the table session
this will be done by the following code:
******************************
function ssid_register($ssid,$login,$uid,$admin){

$connect = mysql_connect( $GLOBALS["db_host"],
$GLOBALS["db_user"],
$GLOBALS["db_password"])
or die($GLOBALS["db_error"]);
mysql_select_db($GLOBALS["db_name"],$connect) or die($GLOBALS["db_error"].'<br>ErrorCode s.001-con');
$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO session SET ssid='$season',ip='$rip'",$connect);
echo ($rs);
return;
}
********************************
I redesigned the INSERT INTO part into all possible syntax but everytime I look into the db, there are two entries with two DIFFERENT ssids.
The only way it works correct is to dont use a variable on the first place.
Means if I use ssid='godhelpmetofindaworkingsolution' it works great but is not realy what I want.

As told above a "INSERT INTO session (ssid) VALUES ($ssid)" also has the effect of two new db-entries.

Number Of Identical Entries In MySQL DB Column
How do you display the number of times a particular entry appears in a column of a database?

Deleting Duplicate Entries From MySQL Database Table
The topic is related to MySQL database.

Suppose a table "address" contains the following records

-------------------------------------------------------
| name | address | phone |
-------------------------------------------------------
| mr x | 8th lane | 124364 |
| mr x | 6th lane | 435783 |
| mrs x | 6th lane | 435783 |
| mr x | 8th lane | 124364 |
-------------------------------------------------------

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Quickly Adding Text To A Mysql Text Field That Is NOT Empty
Is there a way to insert text into a mysql text field that already has
text into it; without having first to extract the existing data and
append the new text to that string variable and then insert the new
string.

Basically i'm looking for a way to do it with a single query not 2 (one
being a select to gather existing data).

Gaining Access To How MySql Parses Text For Full Text
I want to gain access to the function or process MySql uses to parse words and phrases for Full Text searching. Here is an example.

If the user inputs...

Milan in history

MySql will search for milan, history, and milan history. Is there a way to extract just the combination of terms MySql uses to search the db without the stop words? Stop words are automatically eliminated from the search request unless the user encloses a phrase in quotes.

What I am trying to do is develop a script to highlight found search terms and phrases. I can explode a phrase into single words but if I do that the stop words would be included in the array. If there is some way of getting into the parsed words or phrases MySql Full Text actually uses to search, I can use each of those combinations as a keyword in my highlighting script.

This request is about searching for the code or any code related to the questions involved.

Php Template For Multiple Text Files
I have over 800 text files. I need one php template webpage that can pull in text of requested file on request in url. Example:

http://www.gothinia.com/chronicle/epos.php3?title=Title_Of_Text_File_With_Story.txt

would place text of Title_Of_Text_File_With_Story.txt inside template called epos.php3
what code will do this in a simple effiencient manner?

Editing Multiple Text Elements
I'd like to edit multiple rows with one click by the user. Basically I'd print out <input type=text name=fieldname value=$value> for each record in the table. When the user clicks submit PHP will then loop through each row updating where necessary.

Breaking Up Text For Multiple Pages
I was recently put in charge of heading up my company's website, and
while I have a lot of experience on the design side of things, I'm
still very new to the programming side. When I started, the website had
just gotten a revision, but the site was an utter mess, so I've been
trying to fix it up. As I've gone along, I've learned some aspects of
PHP, but my knowledge is still very limited.

Here is the problem I'm trying to fix. A backend is used to enter
information into our MySQL database, and then a page template pulls it
out to make the page. For our reviews, the PHP coding currently breaks
up the review's text so that it can be places across multiple pages.
The problem is, the way the text breaking was set up, the end of one
page and the beginning of the next are totally chaotic, with breaks
often coming mid-sentence.

Here is what I'd love: other coding automatically puts an HTML break at
the end of paragraphs, and then another in the space between one
paragraph and the next. I'd love to have the code search for when those
double breaks come up, and then break up the text after, say, every
sixth pair of HTML breaks. I'd also like the option to break the text
myself by putting in some sort of text code in the original text. At
this point, though, anything that can make the breaks more elegant
would be a huge improvement.

I really appreciate any help anybody can give me in this one. Please
remember that I know very little of PHP, and I'm not much of a
programmer anyhow, so things that you may take for granted that people
would understand about PHP, I might not know.

I tried to pull out what I thought was the current coding for the text
break. Here it is. I'd also like to get rid of the part1/part2 factor.
Before, they had the text breaking to help in fitting into the layout
around an image, but I've fixed that so I no longer need the break. So,
that portion no longer needs to be a factor.

if ($page == ""){
$page = 1;
}
$no_letters = strlen($Game_Full_Story);
$times = ($no_letters / 3800) +1;
$Game_Full_Story = wordwrap($Game_Full_Story,3800,"*#^");
$Game_Full_Story = explode ("*#^", $Game_Full_Story);
$pages = array();
for ($i=0; $i<$times ; $i++){
$part[$i] = $Game_Full_Story[$i];
if ($i != 0){
array_push($pages, $i);
}
}
$page = $page-1;
$story = $part[$page];
if (strlen($story) < 460){
$parts1 = $story;
}else{
$story = wordwrap($story,460,"*#^");
$story = explode ("*#^", $story);
$parts1 = $story[0];
$count = count($story);
$parts2="";
for ($i=1; $i<$count; $i++){
$parts2 .=$story[$i];
$parts2 .=" ";
}
}

Text Field Eats Up Multiple Words!!??
I pass a variable in my url which is let's say two words separated by a space.
now if i just echo($variable) then i get both the words as they are.. separated by a space... but on the other hand if i put that same variable inside a text field.. i.e <input type=text name=bla value=$variable> i get only the first word of the variable

e.g.
$variable = "hello there";

displayed normaly i get:
hello there

displayed inside a text field i get:
hello

i tried using different things like urldecode/urlencode/rawurl blabla/ the best i could get to display was a hello+there
so is there any solution to displaying $variable as it is inside a text field.. by the way it displayed fine if i use a textarea but i need to use a normal text type input.

How Can I Print Out Multiple Text Input Boxes?
How Can I Print Out Multiple Text Input Boxes. The function below prints out three text boxes. The code below is static, cannot accept user input, and therefore cannot be changed. What I need to do is write a function or maybe a class that can accept user input and print or echo a different number of text boxes, depending on the user input.

The name variable for each of the textboxes needs to have a different name. For example, the name for the first text box would be something like "name=textfield1", the second would be "name=textfield2", and so forth. PHP Code:

Help On A Multiple Keyword Search On A TEXT Field Type
Working on a php/mysql driven site which requires me to have a search facility based on multiple keywords. I read the tutorial "quick and dirty search engine". What i want to know is :

1. Is there any SQL query i could perform which could to almost the same thing ( i dont really need the accuracy ) ?

2. Any other methods of achieving it?

Display Results From Text File In Multiple Pages
i use a string, eg "&&&" to mark pages in a text file. i use $count to count the above string. how can i display the contents of this file in multiple pages (by identifying the above string or any other method)?

Multiple Checkbox Query Using Text As Values Not Numbers
I've been looking to create a query based on multiple checkbox results (select results from multiple cities) and the only examples I've found so far use numbers as the values like the one below; Code:

Date Dropdown From Mysql Date Entries
For the PHP gurus out there, here is what I want to do: create a dropdown list of available dates from a mysql database date entries. But the dropdown/s should have 3 separate fields in month, day and year which in effect shows only those months, days and years that have corresponding entries from the database.

Planning to use this in the archive section of an online news publication so people can select issues to view via dropdown list that have corresponding entries only.

Array Query - For Adding Alt Text To Multiple Image Upload Form
I've set up a form for uploading multiple images and I am writing the urls to a database, which is queried and outputs the images on a web page. This works fine, however, I also want to add alt/title text for each image upload but can't quite seem to get it working. I'm pretty new to PHP so my knowledge of how to use arrays is fairly limited. Code:

Populate One Menu From Another
I thought this would be simple and there would be advice / tutorials
everywhere for this, but now that I'm working on it, I can't find any
reference except for ASP or Javascript code. PHP/MySQL - 3 form select
menus: Project, Categories, Subcategories. When a Project is selected, the
Categories list is populated based on Project selected, then Subcategories
list is populated based on Category selected. I see this all over the Net,
but through 10 books, there isn't anything specific. I think I get lost
with some of PHP structure since I've been using DW - I end up editing most
of it in order to follow it, but DW works pretty good for getting initial
testing done. I just can't seem to find further guidance on this. So far I
have:

Populate Form
I have a database of project number, client info, address, phone, ect. And I have a form to add data, and one to edit data... On the edit data form, I want to set it up so that when the project number is highlighted via a pull down list of active project numbers, that project number fill auto fill the form with the clients info from the database.

Then, the user can edit this info...and submit the mofifications. Is this done with php, javascript, or ajax? Which is best? I'm pretty sure this could be done with php, but how? Can I get an example of code? a good starting point.

Populate A Listmenu
I am trying to populate a listmenu from a database with php if I run the code below it works fine. Except if I want to run it inside the table where I need it then I get the Listmenu but its empty ?. Code:

Populate PDF Fields With PHP Variables
I have a HTML Form that needs to take the variables and place them into a PDF with the corresponding fields that I have created with acrobat. I guess there is a two-part question coming up.

1. What is the process of taking my HTML variables and placing them into the PDF fields in the PDF file I created?

2. Does PDFLib that I hear so much about accomplish this task?

Populate In To The Form Fields
i worked on some programs that gets the datas from the user and insert them in to the database.now i want to retrieve the data from the database
and i want them to populate in to the form fields.

Dynamically Populate PDF Form
I found a free script/class online a few months ago which enabled me to populate pre-built PDF forms with data using PHP; without using any toolkits etc (it worked perfectly). It was simply a PHP script. I lost the script when my PC died recently DOH!

Does anybody know where I can find such a script again? I have searched google all night, but all I find is commercial products (not cheap!) or toolkits for generating PDFs', not filling pre-built PDF forms. Here is what I am trying to do:

I have built a site for a client which incorporates e-learning. Students take lessons and if at the end of the course their grades are sufficient, they download a PDF certificate. The certificate is in PDF format with Form Fields for the required data. The certificate needs to display the students name, grade and course name. I need a PHP script which can import server-side data into a PDF form which the user can then print or save (flat). The last (and lost) script did this so I know it is possible.