| Re: populate pulldownbox from query [message #174072 is a reply to message #174051] |
Fri, 20 May 2011 23:02   |
Jeff North
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Registered: November 2010
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On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT), in comp.lang.php Co
<vonclausowitz(at)gmail(dot)com>
<7e34dca3-a1f3-4bdf-acbd-8288e6a30581(at)gu8g2000vbb(dot)googlegroups(dot)com>
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> | Hi All,
> |
> | I am having trouble populating a pulldownbox with records from a table
> | in mySQL database.
> |
> | I have a table with personnel records.
> | One of the fields is partner which holds a numeric value pointing to
> | the id of another record.
> | I am trying to get the value of the currently selected person's
> | partner.
> |
> | for example:
> | id=1 name=John partner=2
> | id=2 name=Jane partner=1
> |
> | With the code I use I do get the pulldownbox filled but it doesn't
> | display the name right partner info in the box.
> |
> | $query="SELECT id, firstname, lastname, rank FROM myMembers WHERE id
> | <> $id ORDER BY lastname";
> | $result = mysql_query ($query);
> | echo "<select name=partner class=formFields id=partner
> | value=''>Partner</option>";
> | while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($result)){//Array or records stored in $nt
> | echo "<option value=$nt[id]>$nt[rank] $nt[firstname] $nt[lastname]</
> | option>";
> | /* Option values are added by looping through the array */
> | }
> | echo "<option value=$partner>$nt[rank] $nt[firstname] $nt[lastname]</
> | option>";
> | echo "</select>";// Closing of list box
> | ?>
> |
> | Can anyone help me here?
> |
> | Regards
> | Marco
When you View Source of the page what do you see where the lists are
supposed to be (there could be php error messages hiding there).
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