PHP :: Populating Table With Text File

Populating Drop Down And Table
I have a database with the following fields.
Name | Company | Date

values in each column could be repeated, or not. as in there could be several same names with the same company with different dates, or different names with same company.

How do I populate a table with this info and have drop down boxes, so that I can narrow down the search? For example:
Name | Company | Date
12 | 1 | 1929
13 | 1 | 1929
14 | 1 | 1929
12 | 2 | 1929
12 | 4 | 1929
13 | 1 | 1941
12 | 6 | 1929

So if in the drop down I select '12' under name, only those entries with 12 are shown, and then I can further sort it by selecting only '1' under Company.
Hope I'm clear, I manage to complicate things when I post them.

Populating Table Information
I am trying to dynamically generate bgcolors with to help populate some information for a site. Here is the code:

Populating Form Text Box.
I have a PHP form for entering data on-line into a mySQL
table..
Because of the intended search facility, I require one field in the form
to be completed with exact and precise item names and spelling.
In testing, I had achieved this with look-up tables.
Ideally I would like the selected item from one of five drop-down lists
to autopopulate the form text field when selected.
Alternatively at least the option of copy and paste.
Copy and paste - for some reason will not work.
Autofill worked fine on a test form with no database connection
and in standard HTML and javascript, however, once the PHP
is added to the page neither method works.
Could anyone please point me in the direction of how to get the
autofill to work?

Create A Table Regarding A Text File
I have this .txt file :

Roger|tow25$rank259
Isabelle|tow36$rank24
Pascal|tow12$rank29
Sergeï|tow45$rank5
Michel|tow1245$rank45478
Frédéric|tow1$rank125425

And this programm php3
<?php
$fichier = "classeur.txt";
if($fp = fopen($fichier,"r")){
$ligne=1;
echo "<table border=1 bordercolor="#00CCFF" width=500>
";
echo "<tr align=center><td colspan=3>TITRE</td>";
while (!feof($fp)) {
list( $name, $tampon ) = explode( "|tow", $fp );
list( $tow, $obj ) = explode ( "$rank", $tampon );
echo " <tr>";
echo "<td
align=center><b>Nom".$name."</b></td><td>Tow".$tow."</td><td>Obj".$obj."</td[color=blue]
>";[/color]
echo "</tr>
";
$ligne++;
echo "</table>
";
echo "$cell";
fclose($fp);
}else{
echo "Error : open impossible ".$fichier;
exit();
}
?>

I would like to past each value of the lines in the tex file, in 3 variables
$nom; $tow; $obj
and create a table with 3 column ( column 1 the name, in 2 the tow, and in 3
the obj)

Using Php To Move Rows From Text File Into Mysql Table
Can anyone point me in the right direction for the way to read a text file a
line at a time and separate the fields on that line and use them as data in
an INSERT to add a record to a mysql table. Then read the second line in
text file and repeat.

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 Can I Find A Name From One Table In A Text From Another Table?
I have one table with a description field and other info, and I also have another table with a list of names and picture url:s. When I display the text description on my site I'd like to know if there are a match with a name from the 'names' table in the text. Code:

Read And Display Japanese Text From Text File
I posted a question regarding reading japanese
text from a text file.

Well, since I solved the problem, I thought I'd post my solution for
the benefit of other people with the same problem.

The plan was to make a script to read and display japanese text. I
will use it for making a japanese proverb script and for a japanese
language study script.

Method :

I wrote a simple kanji text file (saved with UTF-8 encoding)
I wrote a simple PHP script to display the file contents (saved with
UTF-8
encoding)
I specified the content-type header for the HTML page :
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

*** All files have the same encoding. ***

UTF-8 supports japanese characters.

and it works!

this is my PHP (and HTML) script :

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>PHP : Japanese Text File Read : Exercise 1</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php

$filename="japanese.txt";
//open file
$fp = fopen($filename,'r');

//loop through each line in the file
while($line=fgets($fp))
{
//output current text file line
print $line."<br>";
}
//close file handle
fclose($fp);

?>

</body>
</html>

I know it's a very simple script, for testing purposes only. It
displays the contents of the japanese text file line by line.

The key was to save all files in the same encoding (I used UTF-8) and
to specify the encoding / charset in the HTML header (<meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">)

Remove Text Header In Text File
I have been having trouble removeing two header lines at the top of my txt file. You will see in my code the different things I have tried but with no luck. Below I posted my script and data. I am doing a few other things in my script as you will notice but this is the only thing I am having troble with. Code:

How To Make Text Wrap In Table Cells?
I don't understand this at all. I have a table with fixed width and height in pixels. Yet when I place a long text string in a cell, the cell expands as far as needed to the right or left to fit the string on one line. This is driving me quite mad. How do I ensure that a long string is displayed in a neat, orderly fashion? My question has nothing to go with wrapping text around images. I just simply need to have text wrapped!

Problem In Handling Long Text In MYSQL Table
i am making a database driven website which is working fine.
My web page contains lot of text and it is very diffcult to upadate its content from the text_field of MQSQL table. As i have to read each line again and again to update it.

I have alloted parent_id to each category_id in my database table and thus retreving results from it...

I want to know what should i do to handle this long text ...such as if i am able to make a seperate text file for each of my html_body variable and somehow include that file to a webpage when i select a particular parent_id from my wepage.

Explode Text Area Into Array For MySQL Table
On my site, I have a textarea where users enter their sites' information in the following format (tab-delimited):

Site Name <tab> Site Description <tab> URL <newline>
Site Name <tab> Site Description <tab> URL <newline>
(and so on...)

I know I have to use the "Explode function and a loop to get the data into an array and enter it into a MySQL table. Would anyone have a snippet of code off-hand that could show me how to do this?

Creating Temporary Table From Full-text Query
i'm using a full-text search on my db which works fine, but now i'm working on filtering the results further, like products in range of prices. my logic is to simply SELECT them out of the temporary table, only if it would be created. i don't think i need to paste any code since i think you get the idea.

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.

Table Based Order Form That Can Email Text Entered?
I have a custom order form that I collaborated on with a friend who knows php.

The form needs updated and the code we put together is hard for me to read and update. I think the form can be refined or rewritten in a more OOP way and hopefully as sematic as possible.

The Form is for entering ready made frames. The Choices are color and size. Here is what I need to do:

Enter Name, Email, Store Number, Comments Etc.Create a table based form where users can only enter numbers in each text field.Upon completion, agreement, and submission of the order an html email is kicked to our inbox. The table remains as it was on the website due to html and a separate print css file. Code:

Table To File
How do you transfer data from a MySQL table into a file(text or other viewable type), using PHP?

How To Output From File Into Table?
I have this bit of code that opens a file, reads it line by line, and
prints the filename into an image on screen, so i get a big list of
images on the page.

However I want it to output into a table so I can have 2 photos side by
side as it goes through, is there any way of manipulating the code to
output one line into one cell and the next line into the next cell then
back to the first cell again???

<?
$data = file('gallery/captions');

foreach ($data as $line)
{
list ($q, $a) = explode('|' , trim($line) );
echo "<img src='gallery/images/$q' height=100><br>";
echo "$a<br>";
}

?>

Mysql Table Vs Log File
I have been doing some searching for a tutorial on creating a simple tracking script to attach to each of my pages. The tutorials that I found are using a log.txt file instead of a mysql database. can anyone explain why not use a mysql database

Parsing An XML File Into A Table
I'm trying to parse an xml file into a table on a webpage.

I'm using php5 which, I believe, doesn't support xsltproc anymore (since xml support was rewritten for php5). I have got it working on my home server using xsltproc and an xsl file on the command line (unix) but I want to transfer it to a host which doesn't have xsltproc installed and have the xml file parsed into a table by php because I know it can be done.

The actual page that I'm trying to parse is here

Can anyone give me any pointers/links/howtos for parsing xml files into a table using php?

Table To File Swap
I have been working on a form to input information into a mysql table along with the files. I would like to however put the files into a seperate folder on the server.

Here is my code which I have been assisted with already but cannot figure out how to change it to send the actual file to a seperate folder but still keep the information linked so I can recall the file later based on a search of the information in the table. Code:

Populating A Select Box
What I want to do for members of my website is to allow them to click a button that will add their name to a list that populates a select box. I can do this on my own, but I was curious if I have to use a database in order for this to be possible.

Import CSV File Into Database Table
Are there any programs like phpmyadmin, that allow you to import CSV files without first converting them into mysql statements? mysql front?

I've created the table and fields, and it should be easy enough to import the data into its respective columns.

How To Apply Css To A Table That Is The Only Item In A Php File Please
How to apply css to a table that is the only item in a php file please

In the page that has just the one table that is to
be included in the other 2 pages, there's some
heavy css going on, plus the text in the table
gets changed quite a lot on a daily basis.
Usually, in my program, I can highlught the text
that needs a different css applied to it and click
on the css style that applies to it, but because
the page only has the one table and nothing else,
there's no mention of the link to the styles page?

Tab Delimited Txt File To Php Html Table
Wouldn't you know that when I finally find a tutorial using Google that does exactly what I want, the code doesn't run when I use it ...

However, when it gets to this line, for ($i=0; $i<td>$line[0]</td>, it chokes on one of the '>'.

Since my php skills are very basic, and in no way include arrays, can someone assist me with this?

If it's easier to do it differently, what I'd like to do is create a table in Excel/Access, export it to the server (to a tab-delimted text file, since I'll be using commas in my table cells), and have it display in an HTML table.

If I can't figure this out, I'm tempted to just export to HTML from one or the other program (not sure quite yet which I would use), so ...

Create A Table In MySQL From A .php File
Is it possible to create a mySQL table from a .php file? If so how?

PHP + MYSQL, Populating Drop Down Box
I am looking to generate a dropdown box from MYSQL data:

db name = h2, table = Working, Column = Home.

Populating Two Combo Boxes
I have one combo box (Category) which is populated by a MySQL table using php. I am trying to use the onchange javascript to submit the value selected so that I can populate the other combo box (sub-category) based on what was previously choosen. So can anybody give me a clue on how to submit the first boxes value so that the second can see what was selected (javascript function).

Populating Dropdown List
I am wanting to know how to populate the <SELECT> dropdown menu with all existing values from the DB and also have the value associated with that id selected. This is an updating area of my admin. Any ideas? Here's the code so far. At the moment it only retrieves the value assigned to that id. PHP Code:

Populating A Drop Down Menu
How would I go about populating a Drop Down menu from data in MySQL? If you can show me wither a URL to learn this, or if you feel like telling me here, that would be great.

Dymanic Populating Checkboxes
i like to retrieve a value from DB,
accordingly i like to display the checkbox, either checked or not.

Now im able to retrieve the value from DB, i can show even show the
checkbox, but i cant make it checked????

the Code i used to display as follows,

#Require the database class
require_once('../dbinfoinc.php');

#Get an array containing the resulting
record
$query = "SELECT * FROM event";
$result = mysql_query($query);

$num=mysql_numrows($result);
mysql_close();

$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
if(($i % 2) == 0) { $c =
'"TableDetail"' }
else { $c = '"TableDetail2"' }

$event_id=mysql_result($result,$i,"event_id");

$event_name=mysql_result($result,$i,"event_name");

$event_publish=mysql_result($result,$i,"publish");
// if(($event_publish) == 0) {
$event_publish = 'No' }
// else { $event_publish = 'YES'
}
$take_action = 'Delete'
echo "<tr>
<td Class='navText'
align='center' class=$c>$event_id</td>
<td class='navText'
class=$c>$event_name</td>
<td class='navText'
align='center' class=$c><input type='checkbox'
name='publish' if($event_publish==1){'CHECKED'}?></td>
<td class='navText'
align='center' class=$c><a
href='delete_event.php?event_id=$event_id'>$take_action</a></td></tr>";

$i++;
}
?>

Re-populating A Form If Errors
I am learning php. I have created a simple Web page with a form.
After receing the POST request, I do some error checking. In case of
errors, I would like to re-post the page, but with the current values
for each field.

I have organized my files like this:
1) Webpage with the form (all in html, form action points to a php
file)
2) php file that receives the request.

Populating A Select Box From A Database
I have a subscription database that allows you to edit a subscribers data. For example, you enter a search term like "Bob" and it returns a list of everyone named Bob. You click the one you want and it goes to a subscriber detail page, where all of his data is populated to a form. You can directly edit this form and click save to overwrite it.

The only issue is the select boxes (drop downs) - say I have four options in the drop down box, red, blue, green and black. On my details page for bob I end up with five, I have those four PLUS whatever was saved for his color, so it shows up twice. If Bob is green, my select box looks like:

Green
Red
Blue
Green
Black

How can I make it so that Green only shows up once?

Populating An Auto_increament Attribute
I have just designed a BD. there are companies with auto increament which are integer. When I try to populate it after i tool value from another form and try to insert it into a table i recieve an error! I don't ask the companyID value from user as it is auto increament. Don't tell me to put NULL for that entry as it didn't work as well! Code:

Auto Populating A Drop Down Box
Basically I'm setting up a website which needs an populated drop down box made up from all fields in a specific column of a table in a mysql db....

Here's the code I've made up using various tutorials....

<?php
$user = "";
$host = ""
$password = ""
$dbName =  ""

/* make connection to database */
mysql_connect($host, $user, $password) OR DIE( "Unable to connect
to database");
mysql_select_db($dbName); //did you forget this line?

$sql = "SELECT model FROM usedVehicles";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error() . "<br>$sql"); //use the or die(...) part ONLY IN DEVELOPMENT
?>

<form action="action" method="post">
<select name="option">

<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "<option value="" . $row['model'] . "">" . $row['model'] . "</option>
";
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>

I've left out the connection details for obvious reasons... When I upload and try to test this, jus a blank drop down appears... there are definately fields in the column as I have tried the query on phpMyAdmin.

Populating Fresh Data
Im building a live web chat using php, mysql, javascript, ajax I am fine with sending and retreiving data in real time using ajax as the transfer protocol However, my problem, which is becoming a nightmare, is how to I display it !! Lets say the below is the chat screen,

<div id="messages">
Jamie - Hello
Peter = Hi
Jamie = Nice Day
Peter = I know
</div>

Lets say Jamie's next message is "What are you doing today". I can send that off to the database no problem and I can get peters live chat to pull that message in, however, how do I get it to display underneath Peter = I know

As a practice I was using

document.getelementbyid('messages').innerHTML = document.getelementbyid('messages').innerHTML + "<BR>What are you doing today"

That works, but, lets just say the chat gets to 1000 lines, for each new message those 1000 lines have to be pulled out via javascript, a new line written to it and then printed back in the div

Im not sure but I'd take a good guess at this not being optimal and will cause CPU load on the users machine

What is the best way to do this! Chat messages are deleted after 1 minute, but that doesnt matter because by then they have already been sent the the users chat. Just incase you are thinking of completely repopulating there chat with every message they have sent since the chat started..

Place File Contents Into Table On Page
Hi all. Am new to PHP and trying to get the following to work. I dont know if it is possible at all, and would appreciate any help.

I have a folder called Books. It contains an htm page called books.htm which has some graphic elements on it. It also contains a file (either excel or csv, or tab delimited.... whichever will work best in this situation). This file contains two columns. 1st colums-1st row contains an image name (e.g. alice.gif). And the 2nd column-1st row contains a text discripition (e.g. Alice in Wonderland....bla bla..). And so on for the next rows. The folder also contains the actual 'alice.gif' and all images that are listed in the 1st column.

What i am trying to achive is thus:-
When the books.htm page is called. I want the table in the file to be recreated on the page under the existing graphic elements. In that table, instead of the image names in the first column, i want the actual image (which is present in that folder), to be planted there in that specific cell on the htm page!

Downloading File Stored In Mysql Table Through Ssl
I have a table where I store some binary data. To retrieve this
information as a downloadable file, I use the following code:

header('Content-Type: $mimeType');
header("Content-length: $size");

// for filename, i store the filename in the table, so this does not
actually
// point to a physical file name on the file system
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$fileName");
header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");
echo $data;
return true;

If I go through a normal port (http), the file downloads no problem.
When I try this through ssl (https), I get the following error:

'Internet Explorer cannot download / from 192.168.0.9.'

Through port 80, the filename is set correctly. Through ssl, the
filename doesn't seem to be getting set. Is there a problem with
using 'Content-Disposition: attachment' through ssl?

Updating Passwords In A Table By Reading A File
I wrote a loop that reads a csv file which contains passwords for users in a table. and when I run my script, it reads the file fine and updates the passwords next to the appropriate user but it adds two little squares behind the passord. for example, password[][]. it looks something like that. does anybody know why this is? array for storing the values

Multiple Table Insert From Tab Delimited File
I have a page I'm coding for batch updates from a tab delimited file. Each row has data that has to be checked against and inserted/updated on different tables in my mySQL database.

How would I go about parsing through the tab delimited file and then storing data between the tabs in order to insert individually into separate tables??

Here's what I have so far...

$contents = file('/myfile.txt');

for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($contents); $i++) {

$line = trim($contents[$i]);
$arr = explode(" ", $line);

$line[$i] = array('ID' => $arr[0], 'Record_Type' => $arr[1], 'First_Name' => $arr[2], 'MI' => $arr[3], 'Last_Name' =>
$arr[4], 'Firm' => $arr[5], 'Address' => $arr[6], 'type' => rtrim($arr[13]));

I need to take the different columns.. ID, Record_Type, etc. and update different tables with each value where the IDs match.

Text Box To .txt File
does anyone know how to make a text box in php that when submitted, it writes to a .txt file?

Add Something To A Text File?
How would I go about adding a string on a new line at the end of a text file?

Reading Directories, Populating Select Box
Can anybody tell me how to read through a directory, get the file names and populate a select box(pulldown menu) with these names? I know how to loop through a directory using something like this:

while ($files = readdir($handle)) {

$ext=substr($file,-4);

if ($files != "." && $files != ".." && $ext == ".php") {

do some wild and crazy stuff here;

}

}

It's the populating the select box (pulldown menu) while doing this that I need the help on.

Populating Form Item From SQL Enum Set Rev#2
$sql = "SHOW COLUMNS FROM table LIKE 'subject' ";
$qry = mysql_query($sql) or die("Query not valid: " . mysql_error());
$res = mysql_fetch_object($qry);
// This returns a row with a field 'Type' containing 'enum(...)'

$res->Type = str_replace('enum('', '', $res->Type);
$res->Type = str_replace('')', '', $res->Type);
//now the string is something like this: one','two','three

$temp = explode('','',$res->Type);
//temp is an array with as much elements as the enum

while ($temp)
print array_pop($temp);

This way is much more easier using the elements since they are elements
of an array. Cleaver isn't it?

Populating Array With Mysql Results
I'm returning a result set of one field in a table, and want to populate an array with the results. I can't for the life of me figure out a simple way to do this without using mysql_fetch_array() to cycle through the results, append that to a var, then explode that into a var and pass that. PHP Code:

Populating A Form Wth Database Info
I've coded a piece of code which populates a form with data read from the database:

$connection=mysql_connec ("localhost", "f2821842", "f2821842");
$result=mysql_select_db("QUERIES");
$query=mysql_query("Select * from Emp_Details where emp_num = '$employnum'");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{$empname=$row['emp_name'];}

<form name="webregform" action="webadmin2.php" method="post">
<input name="requiredname" type="text" size="30" value="<?php echo "$empname"; ?>">
</form>

When I echo the $requiredname, I get spaces and no data, and I know that $empname is not a space-it does read a value in a database. 1. How can I get $requiredname to print a value?

Populating Dynamically Generated TextFields
If one assigns something to the value iattribute off an input /text field, that value will be displayed when the form is loaded. My problem is, when building a form dynamically, the only way I can get the text to show is by doing the above, however, as this is an update form, when the form POSTS to processUpdate.php,
both the data entered by the user AND the data in the value attribute are inserted/updated.

So, how does one dynamically build a form where the data is displayed in the text fields but value atttribute is not set. PHP Code: