PHP - A List, Where You Can Move Positions Of List Items.. Hmm

Hi first tyvm for reading my help request me and my friend ar trying to build a order form (see png file ^^) so the main idea is some on go to order form.php   in that order form they fil in thear info like name, adress you know ^^   thean here is the treaky part at the and of the form they kan add products to there order by selecting it or search it from the drop down list the items in the dropdown list come from msql   the client can add more or delete items by clicking - or + whean the clint click send the client need to get a mail whit there a list of what theay have orderd and there unic order number wel so far we can do that but we wont to send another list to the company of order where the added products in the order ar sorted out based on the product id number   this is what we have so far http://clientconstru...sion.nl/valeri/    tyvm again voor anyone who read this ^^ Attached Files  bestel-form.png   37.78KB   0 downloads

I coded the following but some parts are not working (the "curveball" mentioned at the end).
How would YOU do this?

I have a page (A) displaying a form with a textarea field using a WYSIWYG interface.
The user will enter a list of unordered items and upon submit the string will look something like this:

This is my list of food items:
 <ul>
  <li> Lettuce </li>
  <li> Tomatoes </li>
  <li> Eggs </li>
 <ul>




Upon submit, I need to give each list item an unique id and store this id along with the text next to it in a separate table:

List_item_id   List_item_text  List_item_state
food_1             Lettuce
food_2             Tomatoes
food_3             Eggs





The user will then land in another page with a form displaying the list. The text is now in the page itself and not in a textarea.
Instead of the bullets a dropdown list appears, and the user can select "buy" or "sell" for each list item. 
This page (B) looks something like this:

<form>
This is my list of food items:
  <br><select name="food_1">
   <option value="buy">Buy</option>
   <option value="sell">Sell</option>
  </select>
  Lettuce

  <br><select name="food_2">
   <option value="buy">Buy</option>
   <option value="sell">Sell</option>
  </select>
  Tomatoes

  <br><select name="food_2">
   <option value="buy">Buy</option>
   <option value="sell">Sell</option>
  </select>
  Eggs

<input type=submit value="submit">
</form>




When the user hits "submit" the table with the list items will be updated with the values selected in the dropdown list:

List_item_id   List_item_text  List_item_state
food_1             Lettuce        Buy
food_2             Tomatoes       Buy
food_3             Eggs           Sell



The next time the user goes to Page B the list will remember the states.


Here's the curveball: At any point the user may click on "EDIT LIST" on Page B so they may add more items (at the begining, middle or end of the string). On edit mode the list items should appear as bullets again inside the WYSIWYG interface.

Keep in mind that some of the text in the string may not be a list item (ie, "this is my list of food...")

Hello!

We our creating an admin page to display a list of all the items within a mysql database, these items are within a table called "item". Each item is categorized, these categories are in a table called "category" each category has an ID. There is then a table called "links" which links the items to their category using ID's.

We want to display each item by their category with an edit and delete button. We have it so all the items display with the two buttons in no specific order however we are not too sure how to make it so they all display via their category.

Here is the code we are currently using:
Code: [Select]
<?php

$itemlist = mysql_query("SELECT item.item_name, item.item_description, item.item_image, item.item_price, item.item_id FROM item ORDER BY item.item_id ASC");

$item_count = 0;

?>

<?php while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($itemlist) ){?>

<?php if(($row['item.item_name'] == 1) && (isset($item_count) && $item_count < 1)) { ?>
<?php
$item_count ++;
} ?>

<li class="title">

<h3><?php echo $row['item_name'];?></h3><br />

<form action="ourworkadmin.php" method="get">

<input type="hidden" name="item_id" value="<?php echo $row['item_id'];?>" />
<input name="edit" value="Edit" type="submit" />
<input name="remove" value="Remove" type="submit" />

</form>

</li>

<?php } ?>

</ul> <!--Close-items_list-->
       
 </div>

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!!!

Hi. I will try and explain simply.   I have a list of item codes eg.  size1 Acolor1 size1 Bcolor3 size1 Bcolor1 size1 Acolor3 size1 Acolor4 size2 Acolor1 size3 Bcolor1 size3 Bcolor2 size3 Bcolor2 size3 Acolor1   I want to take these and split them into parts:   size1 Acolor2 size1 Bcolor3 etc.   Then I want to create a form with 2 dropdowns. The first option would just have all unique sizes so: size1 size2 size3   Then when one is selected, option 2 would show the colours available in that size.   Is there a standard way of doing this? Can I use PHP to create the array and then jquery to display and hide the options?   I'm totally stuck and i'm not just looking for somebody to code it all for me. any help would be greatly appreciated   thanks Sam

Hi,
In my mysql database i have a text input option, in the registration form and edit my details form i have a multiple select dropdown list, which user selects options to populate the text input box, which ultimately populates the text field in the mysql database.
All works perfectly.

The dropdownlist consists of 3 parts <optgroups> first is current selection (what is the usesr current selection)works fine, The second <optgroup> is existing words, what words we(the site) have given as options, and the third <optgroup> is the words that others have used. This is where im having a small problem.
Because its a text field when i call the data from the database, it calls the entire text box as a single option in my select list..

I want to break the words in the text field (at the comma) and have them listed each one as an option in the select list.


Example what i need:

Words in text box:(my input allows the "comma")
word1, word2, word3, word4, word5, word6,

How i want them called/displayed:
<option value=\"word1\">word1</option>
<option value=\"word2\">word2</option>
<option value=\"word3\">word3</option>
<option value=\"word4\">word4</option>
<option value=\"word5\">word5</option>
<option value=\"word6\">word6</option>

here's my code:
$query = "SELECT allwords FROM #__functions_experience WHERE  profile_id  = '".(int)$profileId."' LIMIT 1";
         $original_functionsexperience =doSelectSql($query,1);
         $query = "SELECT allwords FROM #__functions_experience WHERE  profile_id  = '".(int)$profileId."' LIMIT 1";
         $functionsexperiencelist=doSelectSql($query);
          $funcexpList ="<select multiple=\"multiple\" onchange=\"setFunctionsexperience(this.options)\">";   
         foreach ($functionsexperiencelist as $functionsexperienceal)
            {
            $selected="";
            if ($functionsexperienceals->allwords == $original_functionsexperience)
               $selected=' selected="selected"';
            $allwords=$functionsexperienceal->allwords;
            $funcexpList .= "<optgroup label=\"Current selection\">
            <option value=\"".$allwords."\" ".$selected." >".$allwords."</option>
            </optgroup>      
              <optgroup label=\"Existing Words\">
              <option value=\"existing1,\">existing1</option>
              <option value=\"existing2,\">existing2</option>
              <option value=\"existing3,\">existing3</option>
              <option value=\"existing4,\">existing4</option>
              <option value=\"existing5,\">existing5</option>
              <option value=\"existing6,\">existing6</option>
         </optgroup>
         <optgroup label=\"Others added\">    //heres problem
         <option value=\"".$allwordsgeneral."\">".$allwordsgeneral."</option>
         </optgroup>";
            }
         $funcexpList.="</select>";
         $output['FUNCEXPLIST']=$funcexpList;         
      
         
   The result im getting for optgroup others added:
   word1, word2, word3, word4, word5,

how can i get it like this:
<option value=\"word1\">word1</option>
<option value=\"word2\">word2</option>
<option value=\"word3\">word3</option>
<option value=\"word4\">word4</option>
<option value=\"word5\">word5</option>
<option value=\"word6\">word6</option>