On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:39, Rob W. wrote: > Ok, I am still trying to get this figured out from what I tried doing last night. If anybody wants to try it, please be my guest. This is the deal. Create an INTEGER table. Put the numbers 1 - 24 in it. Leave out like number 8, 9, 22, 23 ect.. Now create a php statement that will take and pull that out of the database, find out the missing numbers and display them as an html drop down selection. > > And tedd in response to why, is because the values that are already located in the database represent in use already. They represent a server port that a server is sitting on, so that's not the problem. I could have done that along time ago. > > Any help is appreciated but here is the current code that I have. > > $query="SELECT switchport FROM network"; > $result=mysql_query($query); > $sql_range=mysql_fetch_array($result); > $true_range=range(1,24); > $next_range=array_diff($true_range,$sql_range); > foreach ($next_range as $final_range) { > echo "<option value='$final_range'>$final_range\n"; > } <?php $range = array_flip( range( 1, 24 ) ); $query = "SELECT switchport FROM network "; if( ($result = mysql_query( $query )) !== false ) { while( ($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) !== false ) { unset( $range[$row[0]] ); } } foreach( $range as $switchport => $foo ) { echo '<option value="'.$switchport.'">'.$switchport.'</option>'."\n"; } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php