PHP :: Populating A List Box Or A Dropdown List Using Php And Odbc

Smarter Way Of Doing Dropdown List?
I've got a dropdown list that is acting as a filter on a table, so the user can select a value and the page is reloaded only showing the matching values from the database.

Now when the page reloads the dropdown was set to 'all' as it was first in the list, even if I'd selected a different value, this was confusing for users, so I added an initial <option> field which pulled the correct value from $_GET (code below) - however this is a little odd as it means the value appears twice!

Does anyone have a genius solution to this? I've seen a <select selected="yes"> sort of thing around, but I don't know how I can tell the php to add this value dynamically?

<select size='1' name='occupation'>
<option>".$_GET['occupation']."</option>
<option value='All'>All</option>
<option value='Student'>Students</a></option>
<option value='Professional'>Professional</option>
<option value='Hobbyist'>Hobbyists</option>
</select>

Autopopulate Dropdown List From Database
An events-registration page with a form containing a dropdown list for upcoming events, the events will be pulled from a table which is updated by...?

what i've gathered so far is that this can be done with PHP. I am a little unclear on the concept of how this is done. How does the updated information get input into the table?

1) can this be done (updating database) through a web interface by the client, or is it something i would have to do locally and then upload. If done by the client, can he delete/edit existing information--assuming he is not familiar with code.

2) what other things aside from html(good), sql(so-so), and php(newb) will i have to know?

i've seen a lot of good tutorials here and will have access to the necessary software. I just want to know if there is anything else i should know before i dive in head first without testing the PHP water, which i assume is frigid.

Dropdown List Of Files In Folder
I am preparing a form that includes a drop-down list consisting of the names of files in a certain folder on the server.

I only need to trap the file name (jpg), not the path and I'm not trying to upload the files or anything - simply allow the user to select one of a number of different image files (they're actually location maps).

Dropdown List - Trying To Get Default Populated From Db.
Nooby question but when I try and get this to work (it should identify which
rows in the database have GK, MID, DEF, FWD against them and then put
SELECTED into the option value to give a default of what the entry is
currently) it just adds SELECTED to all the results as if $row["Position"]
is returning true against all four conditions? What am I doing wrong? CODE:..

Cascade Dropdown Or Conditional List
I would like to create a conditional cascade form. based on the selection, it can display or not display an input form for the user to enter an string of text. then at the bottom of the page (or when a user submit) connect all the sections including the input field all together (it's like a story maker?)

Microsoft Access Dropdown List
l am building a new site using PHP which has a lot of pages pulling from an Access Database. I would like to have a dropdown list that pulls exhibitions from the database and then when the user selects one it shows the rest of the details from DB just below the dropdown list, hope that makes sense. Code:

Change List View To Dropdown Menu
Im working on a script that has to be change so a user can choose from a dropdown menu instead of a list that now is displayed.
Here is the part that is insert on the index page.

Easy Comma-delimited List To Dropdown Box Converter
I was working on a simple converter when I realized that by not setting the id param of the option tag, it wasn't going to send the value of the dropdown box to my php script. I had this to start with: Code:

List Contents Of A Folder, Make List Of Links
Does anyone know how I can write a script that:

- reads in all the files in a particular directory
- displays the file names in a html list and makes a link of them:
<ul>
<li><a href="filelocation1">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation2">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation3">filename 1</li>
</ul>

etc.?

So basically it creates a list of links with the contents in that directory,
so you can download them from there.

Get List Of Messages From One Table, Message List Indicator From
I have two tables. One has a list of messages left by users using fields named mbxno for the mailbox and msgno for the message number. I have another table that has mailbox settings for each user that contains a field named "messagelist" to indicate if they want to be included on the message list or not.

What I'm trying to create is a list of the most-recent messages with a lookup on the users table to indicate whether a message in the list should be included in the message list based on the user's mailbox settings.

SELECT messages.msgno, messages.mbxno, users.messagelist FROM messages, users WHERE (users.messagelist = Ƈ') ORDER BY msgno DESC LIMIT 100

What I'm getting, though is a list that looks like this:

mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1

I think what's happening is that I'm using the wrong type of join and more rows are being created than necessary.

If I add "DISTINCT" to the query, I get a list of the most-recent messages as I expect, but the "messsagelist" value is sometimes wrong (again, probably because the data is getting jumbled). For example, the messagelist value for the second row (2214) should be 0, not 1.

mbxno: 1114 msgno: 0412141623 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2214 msgno: 0412141622 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2189 msgno: 0412141408 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0000 msgno: 0412141213 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0003 msgno: 0412141213 msglist: 1
mbxno: 2265 msgno: 0412132029 msglist: 1
mbxno: 0000 msgno: 0412131950 msglist: 1

How should I be doing this? If nothing else, what kind of join will work with a long list compared to a value from a short list?

Mailing List Manager, Send To List
I'm looking for a mailing list script (php) that has a function to let
users to reach out to all recipient on the list by simple send the
email to a specific maillist- address.

Mailman has this functionn but as a just got a webserver account I
can't use mailman nor install it.

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.

Populating "Month" Dropdown Menu
I can get the current month to display in a text box by inserting
value="<? print strftime("%B"); ?>"> into the code for that
particular text box on a form but how can I populate a drop down with
names of all the months with the current one being 'default' as it
would be in the text box example?

Using List
when my form is loaded i populate a list with a database query. now when user selects a value from the list. on "onChange" another query runs and other fields on the form are populated according to the value selected by the user but at this time when page is loaded again and the fields on the form are filld. every thing goes write but the select list doesn't have the same value selected that was selected by the user...the selected list shows the default valuse selected instead.

i want to know that how can we do this that when we select a value from the list and page is populated using this vale and refreshed then again i want to see the selected value in the list box not the dafault value.

Mp3 List
I can't figure why I can't list only mp3 files with this code :

<?php
$dir = opendir(".");
while($file = readdir($dir)) {
$ext = getFileExtension($file);
if ($ext = "mp3") {
echo "<a href=" .$file.">".$file;
echo "<p>";
}
}
closedir($dir);

function getFileExtension($str) {
$i = strrpos($str,".");
if (!$i) { return ""; }
$l = strlen($str) - $i;
$ext = substr($str,$i+1,$l);
return $ext;
}

?>

Buddy List
I have a community, now it´s time to upgrade and make a buddy list. Ive started wtih the file that ask´s the other member for a relation. The code looks like this PHP Code:

Problems With List()
I am having some problems with the list() function. Here is some code:

<?

$USERDB = fopen("users.db", "r");

while ($line = fgets ($USERDB, 4096))
{
list ($name, $occupation, $favcolor) = split ("|", $line);

print ("Name: $name<br>");
print ("Job: $occupation<br>");
print ("Favorite Color: $favcolor<br>");
}

fclose ($USERDB);

?>

And here is whats in the text file: Van Tate|Software Engineer|Green

Now...when I execute the script I get this error: Warning: bad regular expression for split() in /var/www/html/v2/getusers.php on line 7.

List Constants
A little embarrassing but: is there any easy way to echo (the name and
value of ) all defined constants?

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:

Loop Through A List
I want to loop through a list and display it in a table with three columns per row, yet haven't had much luck in doing so. I was thinking if would be something like so Quote:

for ($x = 0; $x < mysql_num_rows($query); $x++) {
if ($x / 3) { ?>
<tr> <? } ?><td> Blah </td></tr></table>

Well, that's as much as I know so far.

Add Number In List
I am outputing a list of 10 values.

10, 20, 30, 40, etc

I can add 15 to one of the values then reorder the values from smallest
to highest but i want to update every single value and assign it values
increamenting by 10

so after the update the second number of 20 and add 15 I get

10, 30, 35, 40

now i want to re output the values above as

10, 20, 30, 40

Php Mailing List
Can anyone point me to a php script that stores email addresses into a
txt file?

The purpose for this is for a mailing list, ideally if a user wanted to
unsubscribe the email would be removed from the text file.

PHP Link List
On a page from Thredz (http://www.thredziii.com) I saw a script (it's not on anymore...cause he didn't want the script to be on his page) and I love it...

It's a script that makes it possible that on a page links are sorted ALPHABETICALLY with the first letter of the "URL name"... (take a look on Thredz' site to c what I mean,K?)

Then people got 2 have the abbility to fill in a small form, ON THE SAME PAGE WHERE THE LINKS ARE ON, where they fill in 2 fields;
#1 = Name of the Site ($sitename)
#2 = URL of the site ($url)

When they fill out it form I want the PHP-script to put the information away as a link (in a *.txt-file...if possible)
<A href="$url" target="_blank">"$sitename"</A><br>
(something like this??? I'm not sure......)
These links have to be sorted alphabetically (on the site's name,$sitename...

I don't know how this works or how I have to make something like this... Could somebody please help me and give me a bit of help with it? Some explaining would be gr8 but the script written for me is the best wish I have.

Getting List Of Newsgroups Via Php
I am trying to write a PHP script that will download a list of all
the newsgroups on a news server and put them into a MySQL database.
I bought a $50 book that had some NNTP examples in it, but none of
them show how to just download the groups, not the articles. I tried
on my own for about 2 hours with no luck. If someone can point me in
the right direction to download the group list using PHP, I think I
can figure out how to write it to a database.

FTP List Problem
I used ftp_rawlist, not ftp_list.
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> I used ftp_list and ftp_nlist. Both of them worked when the target is Sun
> or Linux machine. However, it didn't work when the destination is VXWorks
> (embedded platform). The version of php I am using is 4.3.2. According[/color]
to[color=blue]
> my search on google that problems for ftp_list and ftp_nlist for some
> platforms were fixed in 4.3.
>
> If I manually ftp to the VXWorks, I could use the "dir" or "ls" to see the
> listing at the destination.
>[/color]

List Certain Files In A Dir
I am working on a news script were my members can post what they are currently working on. I have a dir were all of there images are going to be uploaded, and I need to know if the following is possable to do.

$username = the members name selected from the database
$projname = the projects name selected from the database

What I want to do is select only images with the filename containing the info. The filenames are like this:

TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_1.jpg
TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_2.jpg
TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_3.jpg

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:

PHP Shortand List
Is there a place where I can find a list of all the shorthand/shortcuts in PHP's syntax. IE: $_POST, $counter++, etc? Anyone know?

Getting A List Of Newsgroups With PHP
Does anybody know of a quick and dirty way that I can connect to a news
server, retrieve a list of all newsgroups beginning with alt. (or comp., or
blah., or wibble., doesn't really matter), and also the newsgroup
descriptions, and then dump them all in an html file?

Php Mailing List
Is it possible to implement a mailing list using PHP?. I know I could
maintain a list of emails addresses in a db and send mail to them through my
website, but how can I get true mailing list behaviour where emails are sent
to a particular address (like mailinglist@mydomain.com) and then distributed
to all of the email addresses?.

PHP For A Mailing List
I' trying to develop a mailing list system in php and mysql.

While(list => Checkboxes
I wanted to print out checkboxes for those which are checked when form is being submitted. Whilst, this is my function: PHP Code:

Select List
I'm creating a form that has three select lists. The first one has two values EMAIL and SMS. What I want to do is have the two other select lists (named EMAIL and SMS) work so that if EMAIL is selected only e-mail select list can be altered and vice versa with the SMS.

How can I do this? I know to use disabled in <select> -tag, but how can I check the what the value is (and the value changes) and then act acording to it?

Best Way To List Pages A - Z
I now have my emulator site up and running, no longer html but php! Even my vote script now works, thank for all your input. Now I want to have roms on my site for download, but it's a fair long list so you have to devide in sections a - z or something.

Can this be done in a way to create those pages with php/mysql instead of have to write html files for every emulator roms page from a to z? If anyone have done this before I would like to here what the possibilties are.

How To Use A Value From A Pick List?
I'd like to have a form that does the following:
User picks a site from a dropdown list from a MySQL db (that works -
code below, thanks to all those on the web who posted code for this).
Once the value is selected, a second query is run using the site as the
'where' clause and the results are displayed back to the user.

mysql, php, htlm noob. I think once I get this bit,
I'll be able to move forward with more interesting and complex code.

ps - if this message shows up 3 times, my apologies but I've been having
trouble posting.

<html>
<body>
<?php

// connect to db
$db = mysql_connect("localhost");
mysql_select_db("test",$db);

// build query
$sitequery = "SELECT site from sitedata order by site";

// generate result set
$siteresult = mysql_query($sitequery);

// use results
echo "Select a site from the list below: <br><br><select name='site'>";
while($siterow = mysql_fetch_array($siteresult))
echo "<option
value='".$siterow["site"]."'>".$siterow["site"]."</option>";
echo "</select></td>";
?>

</body>
</html>

Css List Navigation
I found a nice link about CSS liquid layout. Specially for css list navigation ....

How To List A Directory
I would like to get a list of a local directory content using php. I
would be very appreciative if anybody could tell me how to do that. I
loocked in the php manual but coulsn't find anything (probably I just
missed it).

Problems With List..
I have a function returning smth like list($a,$b):

var_dump says:

list(string $a, string $b) blabla()

How can use this strings now? I try:

list($a, $b) = blabla();
print($a);

but it's won't work returning empty string.

I tried also:

$result = blabla();
print $result[0];

but it also won't work.

The only thing I can do is to iterate result with foreach, then it works
nicely, but how should I use the result of blabla() function without
foreach? I just want to get to $a and $b.

Selection From A List Box.
php and have to implement this functionality to
select a user from a list box. I have written the code for this, but
the problem is after selecting a name and doing the required task, it
again selects the first entry in the list box. So if there are 100
users, the 100th one has to scroll down again and again.

I need to modify this code so that until the session expires, if a
person has selected his name once, that name will be selected in the
listbox until he changes it.

<select name="name" style="width: 120px;">
<?php
$query = sprintf("select * from person order by person_name");
$result = mysql_query($query);
$i = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$i++;
printf("<option
value="$row[person_num]">$row[person_name]</option>");
}
?>
</select>

To-do List To Add To Site?
I'd like to add a basic to-do module to my web site. Could someone
recommand something, either MySQL- or flat-file-based?

List And Explode
I have been searching for a reason for this behavior but no solution
so I figured I would ask.

Basically I have a web page that displays data in a database to the
user for updates/deletion/addition. For each data field ont he web
page I put the data from the database in the field name with teh field
name and data seperated by a |. ex: address|35 Elm St.

I then loop thru all the fields on the form and if the data in the
field name doesnt match the data submitted then update the database.
Here is the code:

foreach ($_REQUEST as $curFld => $Data) {
if ($curFld <> 'Submit') {
list ($field, $orig_data, $table, $id) = explode('|', $curFld);

if ($orig_data <> $_POST[$curFld]) {
//UPDATE DATABASE
$sql = "UPDATE $table SET $field = '".$_POST[$curFld]."' WHERE
ID = $id";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $_SESSION['conn']) or
die(mysql_error());
}
}
}

Here is the problem, either list() or explode() is replacing all
spaces in $orig_data with underscores so 35 Elm St. becomes
35_Elm_St.. This causes the code to always update this field and any
others where this occurs. Obviously I could do this str_replace("_",
" ", $orig)data) to fix this problem but if the user wants to use
underscores I dont want to replace them. (Address is not the only
field on the page.

List Db Contents
can someone help me make a script that will list the information in one colum in my table! See each clan I have has an ID, and CEO and bla bla bla! But what I want done is it to only show the name of the clan in A dropdown menu. So that when users are signing up they can select the clan they want and it well ya you know puts the name beside theres in the table. But can someone make me a script to list all the clans Names and only names not ID, Ceos, and all that other stuff. 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:

Php List Problem
I'm trying to customize php list so that the public page content appears within my existing table. Needless to say, it's not working very well:

It looks as if some of the content is appearing before the table begins and the rest is appearing after the table ends. Code:

PHP, LDAP, List OUs And Sub-OUs
I have managed to connect to Microsoft Active Directory, using PHP and LDAP. Also managed to performe a search in AD for UserAccount information.

What I need help with, is to search in AD within an OU (Organizational Unit) and list the reslut into an own array. i.e.

In AD the structure looks like this:

+Sales
-USA
-Sweden
-Belgium
+Finance
-Usa
-Sweden
-Belgium

I would like to have them in an array in the format:

Sales/USA
Sales/Sweden
Sales/Belgium
Finance/Usa
Finance/Sweden
Finance/Belgium

Populating A List Box Or A Dropdown List Using Php And Odbc

I need to populate a list box and/or a dropdown list on a form. I have allthe bits and pieces together, all bar the code which takes the result of aquery and creates a list box.

I need to populate a list box and/or a dropdown list on a form. I have all
the bits and pieces together, all bar the code which takes the result of a
query and creates a list box.