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Populating Table With Text File
My web hosting service uses phpMyAdmin and at the bottom of the screen
iis an area where I can upload a text file to populate a table.

I have a table named groups with two fields:
groups_idauto-increment primary
groups_name

So how do I create my text file to populate this table?

I'm going to use MS Notepad.

If it's set to auto-increment, do I need to include the number? If
so, does it start at 0 (zero)?

Would the file look like:

0,students
1,faculty
2, staff

or just

students
faculty
staff

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 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 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 Form Fields With Variables
The script itself works fine: mail gets sent. If there are any missing fields the form displays again with a list of the missing fields, but I can't get the form fields of the reloaded form to be populated with teh existing values. PHP Code:

PHP Not Populating Form Variables Passed Through POST Or GET
I"m running:

Windows Xp SP2
Apache2
PHP5
MySQL4

Everything seems fine and dandy, and I can do scripting on server side, but for some reason I cannot get data from a form to be put into a variable.

I have a simple form in an html page which submits, and in the php script that handles the input, none of the data in the form is going into the variables.

My php.ini file does have all the GPC's in place(ie variable_order, the way they get processed).

Populating Form From Database, Then Passing Results To Next Page
I have a multiple select input in a form that's being populated by a row
from my database as such:
<input type="checkbox" name="subm[]" value="$row[ID]">

That part is working fine as I can check the displayed page using View
Source and see that the value is the correct row number from the
database. It is then being submitted on a form by $_POST method to
another page where I want to evaluate the checkboxes and display the
contents of the entire row that corresponds to each value="$row[ID]"
that have been checked. But I can't seem to get it to work. I'm having a
problem passing the selected value. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

$query = ("SELECT * FROM `table`");
$result = mysql_query($query);

print "<p>Data for Selections:";
print "<table border=2><tr><th>You chose:";

foreach ($_POST['subm'] as $value) {
print "<tr><td>";
print "$row[ID];
";
print mysql_field_name($result, 1) . ": " . $row[name]."<br>";
print mysql_field_name($result, 2) . ": " . $row[address]."<br>";
print mysql_field_name($result, 3) . ": " . $row[city]."<br>";
print "</td></tr>";
print "</table>
";
}

if (!isset($_POST['subm'])){
print "<p>No matching entry ";
}

mysql_close();

Populating SELECT Multiple Form Field And Inserting Into Db
I have an update form where I'm trying to populate a SELECT multiple field with a list of 48 categories, from tbl work_cat. And show, as SELECTED, the one or many choices that the user had previously selected from the 48 categories which are stored in tbl cat_relations as $relation_cat.

Then allow the user to update their selections and update the database. But I can't get my form to work. First problem, I can't get the SELECT field on the form to show the categories, and then I don't know where to go from there. Below are my form page and my processing page. Code:

Populating Form In Parent Window With Value From Popup Window
I have a text box in the parent window.. now i want to populate this text box with a user_id that i will get from query within a popup window.. How do i get the value from the popup window to be passed to the main window form field in php. I know how it can be done in javascript but when i tried combining javascript and php i dont get the desired result.

Keep Text In Text Boxes After Form Is Rewritten
I'm trying to make a form that does the following:

(1) the user answers a question by typing in a text box
(2) a response is then written below the form, saying whether the answer is right or wrong and, perhaps making a comment of some kind
(3) the user's answer remains visible in the original text box

I've managed to write some code that does the first two things, but despite many attempts and much searching for code examples, I've failed to find a way of getting the answer to reappear in the text box when the page is rewritten.

This is my code:

Form To Text File
I don't know anything about PHP, ASP, CGI, all I can do is use Microsoft FrontPage to edit html. But I have been searching the internet for a script (any laguage) that can send an html form to a text file. But I need the new data to replace existing data in the text file every time I submit new information.

Is this possible in PHP or any other language? I’m hosted on a UNIX server with php installed and I have access to my cgi-bin and all I need is this little script to complete my website.

Form Variables And Text Characters
Well I´m having trouble with text formatting I think.
You see I have a flash form, which sends variables
via POST to a php file that looks like this:

Editing Text File With A PHP Form
I am trying to do something with PHP that i am sure is pretty easy. But not sure myself how to do it.

I have a file that i want to pull into a simple HTML Form text field. From that field the person can just add in content or remove content.. Click "Update" .. And it will write the new content out.. Overwriting the old file if need be.

Pointer Of Mouse And Text Form.
Anybody know wether one can create such text-form that pointer of mouse
will be automatically set in the text field of form? It means that user
can type text immediately after page has been loaded, without putting
pointer of mouse by hand in the text field.

Form Post To Text File
I have a form that posts to my php file which in turn writes to a text file. The way I'm doing is probably far from efficient or the right way, but it's the first thing i've ever written and I have to get it done.
The way it writes now is it just puts all the form input next to each other in a text file. I want each field to be delimited or on new line so I can read it easily. Here's a snippet of my code:

<?php>
$filename = 'orders.txt'
$fp = fopen($filename, "a");

$string4 = $_POST["email"];
$string5 = $_POST["street1"];
$string6 = $_POST["street2"];

$write = fputs($fp, $string4);
$write = fputs($fp, $string5);
$write = fputs($fp, $string6);

fclose($fp);?>

Form Text Field Validation
I've got a form and I'm now trying to validate the text fields in it. The field I want to validate is for someones name, so there should only contain letters. Below is the function I've written to handle this. Code:

Increment A Text Field In A Form
I am creating an intranet which shows active projects and allows people to add new projects. If users want to add a new project, they fill in a form but what I want the form to display in the ProjectNumber field (which is a var char field & not the primarykey) is the last Job Number incremented by 1.

For example if the last ProjectNumber was TS0014, then the default value in the ProjectNumber field should be TS0015 - this way users know what the next job number is.
At present, the last job number in my table is TS0014. Below is the code i'm using but for some reason in the Job Number field in the form Im getting TS001? WHY? Code:

Submit Form Via A Text Link
But I have a few input fields, but the submit button is not a button but just a text link.
How can I create the text to act as a submit type to submit the form?

Updating Text In Form Submission
I am using a text area form submission to add imformation to a html webpage, and I would like to be able to edit that text in the php form at a later date after submission.
Does anyone know how to get the origonal text back into the form text area for editting and resubmission?

Form Field Text Output
How can I get html code in an editable form field to display properly? Specifically: I have text that is echoed to a form field via <? echo $text ?>

The user can then edit that text and submit. However <BR> is showing up as a literal <BR> and should be a linefeed. Is there a way to have this display properly?

Example: LINE ONE<BR>LINE TWO
should display as
LINE ONE
LINE TWO

Note that this is only a problem in the form field. It displays properly when echoed outside of the form.

How To Get Un-escaped Text From A Form Field
I have a php script that gets the text from a form field:

<?php

include("global.inc.php");

pt_register( 'POST', 'test1');
echo $test1;

?>

The text comes back fine, just some characters (', " and ) are now escaped
(', " and ). The problem is that I need the he text to be exactly as it
was entered by the user. I could process the text myself, and replace the
escaped characters, but I'd like first to understand why this is happening
and if there is a way to disable this behavior and get the unmodified text
directly.

Add A Text Box Form To Buy Button Code:
cuttently we have this code which generates a buy button on a page. where the "product_ref" call the data.

Is there an easy way to add a text box with one of these codes so a number can be entered in to post to the cart as well so the item can be personalised? Code:

Keep This Text Area From Being Edited In This Form
I need the textarea so it can not be edited by the user..... how can I hide it and keep it so it can not be changed

<textarea name="body" id="body" cols="50" rows="15">'.$_CONFIG['MAIL_BODY'].'</textarea>

this text area has an email message for my inviter script but I dont want the user to be able to alter the body...

how can this be achieved? I manages to hide the subject by ussing type hidden

but I dont know how to do it with this text area.

Deleting A Line Of Text From A Txt File From A Form
How can i delete a line of text from a .txt file using a form?

because i have a form right now that saves information from a form to a txt file for news, now i need to know how to make it so i can delete it from a form.

also, if you know how, how do you overwrite lines of text in txt files from a form?

Form Data Inserted Into A Text File
I am wondering if it would be possible to create a form and using php have the form data inserted into a text file. The data would have to be inserted in a given way.

Writing To Heredoc From Text Area Form
I can't seem to get heredoc to populate correctly with variables through
a form.

<textarea name="Template" rows="10" cols="80">Template Here</textarea>

Contents could be something like: I want to replace $myarray[0] and
another variable $myarray[1]

I call heredoc this way:

$hubarray = explode("
", $contents);
$template = $_POST['Template'];

foreach ($hubarray as $val) {
$hostarray = explode(",", $val);

$output = <<<EOT
$template
EOT;

I'm feeding it a file that has multiple rows separated by
as array 1
and within those rows are fields separated by "," for array 2. I'm
trying to iterate through the arrays and populate heredoc($template)
accordingly.

Editing Text Files In Form Textareas?
I want to pull text files into a form text area and then edit them. to open the file I am using:

$toEdit = fopen ("../content/concept.txt", "r+"); which does not work at all unless I change the path to c:xxxxxxxxxx but I dont want to do that. If I use the hard coded path I get permission denied, if I change the file to read only it seems ok - however, I want to load it into a form textarea? Cant work this out, then I want to save it.

Its just to update a simple text schedule. there will be no special characters that need escaping etc. This is probably a pretty basic question but I have been asked to do this ASAP and my attempts so far have just confused me!

Text Within Textarea Shifted After Redisplay Form
After a redisplay of the form, caused by errors in other fields, the
text which is in the "Observ" textarea is shifted (some 8 places) to
the right (and this each time after a redisplay). The code used in case
of redisplay is :

<tr>
<td align="right">
Observations :
</td>
<td>
<textarea align="left" cols="50" rows="10" name="Observ">
<? echo $Observ ;?></textarea>
</td>
</tr>

Posting Information From A Form To A Text File
I am trying to append the results from a form to a text file. My code is supposed to print out the results on one page, and append the results to another page each time data is entered on the form and the submit button is hit. Unfortunately, it is only printing out the message acknowledging the submit button--no data on either form. Code:

Validate An Email Form Text Filed
How would i run a check in my datacheck page to see if the user entered an email address in a form text field?

if(empty($email_address) || - NOT VALID EMAIL STUFF HERE -){
$msg[] = $error12;
}

Getting Form Fields To Accept Images And Formatted Text
does anyone know of any applications available (or the coding) that can be used to insert formatted text or images into form fields rather than the plain text inputs that are allowed in HTML?

Formatting The Contents Of A Text Area Form Field
On my site I get users to enter a load of information in a textarea
box, however when i save this data to my mysql DB and then retrieve it,
it comes out without all the formatting, like new paragraphs and new
lines.

Can anyone tell me how you can capture the data entered into such a
field with all the formatting the user has entered like new paragraphs
etc?

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.

Clearing The Input Text Field After Submiting The Form To A New Page
I have a page with a form with an input text field ... and when a user types his/hers ID ... and submits the form - his/hers page opens in a NEW window .... but the value (ID) that was written in the original window remains.

I want to make sure that the form input field on the original page becomes "invisible" - by refreshing/reloading the original page or just by clearing the input form after submission.

For now I have put in a meta refresh tag in the head of the html file ... but that is not the solution ... becouse I only need a one time refresh/reload of the page ... and this is to happen right after the input text value is being submitted.

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:

Detecting URL's And Html Tags In Text, Input From Form
Is it possible to check text and set a PHP variable if someone inputs links, <h1></h1> ect. and other html tags when filling out your form mail or guestbooks?

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++;
}
?>

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 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 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:

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

Can We Display Text In Form Of Wave As Shown In Gmail Forgot Password
https://www.google.com/accounts/Ren...aForPasswdReset , here characters are shown in wave nature.

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: