On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:58 -0400, Jack Jackson wrote:
> 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
> >
>
JJ,
I like to TBS (TinyButStrong) for all of my PHP->HTML needs. There are
build in functions to handle output from database to a list like this as
well as wide depth of other great features for auto-generating specific
HTML.
http://www.tinybutstrong.com
Dave
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