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Hi, can anyone even point me in a *direction*? I suppose this is the
most complex thing I've ever tried to do and I have been at it for tens
of hours and am still completely baffled.
Jack Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> because that last topic on multipage forms was so exciting, I decided
to
> database the questions as well. I wonder if anyone can help me with a
> function to pull rows into dropdown boxes.
>
> It's a 1:n relationship between questions and answers, and I have a
> table of questions
>
> q_id
> q_name
> q_text
> q_style //dropdown, radio, checkboxes
> q_cat //question category
>
> and a table full of answers
>
> a_id
> q_id
> a_answer
>
>
> When I do
>
> $fields = 'SELECT *';
> $from = 'FROM questions,answers';
> $sort = "ORDER BY questions.q_cat";
> $where = "WHERE answers.q_id=questions.q_id";
>
> // construct the sql query:
> $sql = "$fields $from $where $sort";
>
> // Run SQL query 1
> if (!($result = mysql_query($sql))) {
> echo "Could not connect to the database ($sql)" . mysql_error();
> }
>
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
>
>
> I need to loop through the results and make a dropdown list from them,
> taking the question name as the select name, and then making each
answer
> id and answer text the makings of an option ros.
>
> Based on a problem a while ago which was similar but different,
someone
> here actually made me a function *similar* to what I need to do now,
> This one acts different and I just cannot adapt the old one, because I
> still get confused at this level.
>
> I think it wants to be something like (and note that part of the
return
> is the code to react to error checking results):
>
> $dropdown[] = '<option <?php if (' . $q_name . ' == "' . $a_id . '")
> echo "selected "; ?> value=\'' . $a_id . '\'>' . $a_answer .
'</option>';
>
> etc for all $a_answer(s)...
> and then
>
> return '<?php if (sizeof($message[\'' . $q_name . '\'])){ echo "<div
> class='error'>"; } ?>
> <div class=\'row\'>
> <select class=\'answer\' name=\'' . $q_name . '\'>
> <option value=\'\'>Select from this list</option>'
> join('',$dropdown)
> . '</select></div>'
> . '<?php if (sizeof($message[\''. $q_name '\'])){ echo
> "</div><!--/error-->"; } ?>';
>
>
> Can anyone point me at the right direction?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> JJ
>
[/snip]
It seems that you have over-complicated the issue, let me boil it down a
little;
$sql = "select answer from table ";
if(!($result = mysql_query($sql, $connection))){
echo mysql_error() . "\n";
exit();
}
echo "<select name=\"answers\">\n;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<option name=\"". $row['answer'] . "\">";
echo $row['answer'];
echo "</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
Your out put will look like this;
<select name="answers">
<option name="answer1">answer1</option>
<option name="answer2">answer2</option>
<option name="answer3">answer3</option>
</select>
Is this what you're after?
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