PHP - Sorting With Category, Need Idea
hi i hv built a small posting system, i hv built few categories like this
in mysql i hv these tables Categories table: id catname Post Table: id postbody posttile date catid so i am getting posts with catid for related posts like http://localhost/site/index.php?action=category&cat=1 so where $_GET['cat'] is 1 it display posts from that category 1, now what i need is when i post a new post i hv choice to assign multiple categories to one post, so a post could be in cat1 and in cat2 as well . please any idea how can i do that? i was thinking to make a new rows in posts table for each category and set it to 0 or 1 , and when i submit new post it will set 1 to those categories which i select upon writing post. but if i have like 20 categories i need to add more 20 rows in posts table. is there any other better way i can accomplish this? Thanks for help Similar TutorialsHello, I have been searching and trying all sorts of ways to get my sub categories drop down to show the correct info after selecting a category from the main drop down but im getting stuck. It's pulling the categories and sub categories from the mysql database fine but no matter which main category i pick it keeps showing the same result in the sub category. My brother said i need to use some sort of onchange do this so the sub category list refreshs but everything i have tried doesn't work.. PLEASE could some one help. MANY MANY THANKS This is the category form Code: [Select] <select name="job_cats" style="width:165px"> <?PHP $query1 = "SELECT * FROM job_cats"; $result1 = mysql_query($query1) or die ("query 1 failed"); $count1 = mysql_num_rows($result1); for ($i = 0; $i < $count1; $i++) { $row1 = mysql_fetch_array($result1); $job_cats_title1 = $row1['title']; $job_cats_id1 = $row1['id']; echo '<option value="'.$job_cats_id1.'">'.$job_cats_title1.'</option>'; echo $job_cats_id1; } ?> </select> this would echo this in the main category list: cat1 cat2 cat3 cat4 this is the sub category form Code: [Select] <select name="job_sub_cats" style="width:165px"> <?PHP $query1 = "SELECT * FROM job_sub_cats WHERE job_cats_id = $job_cats_id1"; $result1 = mysql_query($query1) or die ("query 1 failed"); $count1 = mysql_num_rows($result1); for ($i = 0; $i < $count1; $i++) { $row1 = mysql_fetch_array($result1); $sub_cats_id1 = $row1['id']; $sub_cats_title1 = $row1['subTitle']; $cats_id1 = $row1['job_cats_id']; echo '<option value="'.$sub_cats_id1.'">'.$cats_id1.'</option>'; } ?> </select> this should echo this: 1 2 3 4 but it keeps echoing just the number 4. THANKS PLEASE HELP ricky Hi First of all, I know VERY little about PHP, The effort below is a wile guess that has gone wrong. I get this error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /home/repairyo/public_html/shop/includes/content/viewOrders.inc.php on line 57 I have no idea what ive done wrong, may be I am stupid for attempting it. Cheers Paul This is the original code Code: [Select] $view_orders->assign('VAL_STATE',$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$orders[$i]['status']]); This is the modified code Code: [Select] $view_orders->assign('VAL_STATE',$state = $results[$i]['status'] if ($state == '1') { "<font color='#ff9900'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else if ($state == '2') { "<font color='#009900'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else if ($state == '4') { "<font color='#cc0000'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else if ($state == '5') { "<font color='#cc0000'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else if ($state == '6') { "<font color='#cc0000'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else if ($state == '7') { "<font color='#ff9900'>".$lang['glob']['orderState_'.$results[$i]['status']]."</font>"; } else { $lang['glob']['orderState_'.$orders[$i]['status']]); } An array of "categories" is given: $categories = array( array("id" => 1, "title" => "Pants", "children" => array( array("id" => 2, "title" => "Boots", "children" => array( array("id" => 3, "title" => "Leather"), array("id" => 4, "title" => "Textile"), ), ), array("id" => 5, "title" => "Sneakers"), ), ), array( "id" => 6, "title" => "Sort", "children" => array( array( "id" => 7, "title" => "Balls", ), ), ), );
I need to write a function searchCategory ($categories, $id) that returns the name of the category by the category ID. Hope I am in the right area. I am working on a project which is sort of a business directory. I have a category table, a sub-category table then the actual account table. So a user clicks on the category, then selects the sub-category to view information of accounts in that category, and then be able to click to see the full profile. Here's where I am getting stuck. A user may be listed in more than one sub. As an example, let's say a parent is Cars, then subs might be New, Used, Parts, etc. Now a particular user might be listed under all three subs. How can I link them? I have my cat/sub linked via parent/child id's. However, how can I get the user to be linked to multiple subs? Would I need to create a separate table to do similar to parent/child of the categories? If so, then how would I insert the multiple id's into the table? I assume at this point that I would use drop downs for the subs. I am having a real hard time wrapping my head around this so any help is greatly appreciated. I have the following result that I am getting from a source. Code: [Select] SimpleXMLElement Object ( [CategoryID] => 1 [Name] => Other [Order] => 0 [link] => http://www.link.com?sub=1 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [CategoryID] => 1233916011 [Name] => ceramic [Order] => 1 [ChildCategory] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [CategoryID] => 1234016011 [Name] => dish [Order] => 1 ) [link] => http://www.link.com?sub=13476 ) SimpleXMLElement Object ( [CategoryID] => 1233917011 [Name] => laminate [Order] => 2 [link] => http://www.link.com?sub=98247 ) I need to get it into a database with the following structure Code: [Select] id categoryID cName cOrder clink cparent By using Code: [Select] foreach($this->resp->Store->CustomCategories->CustomCategory as $cat) { $sub = $cat->CategoryID; $ord = $cat->Order; $linkto = "$stlink?fsub=$fsub"; $nm = htmlspecialchars($cat->Name); $par=$cat->ChildCategory->Order; $query = "INSERT INTO Cat (categoryID,cName,cOrder,clink,cparent) VALUES ('$sub','$nm','$ord','$linkto','$par')"; $result = @mysql_query ($query); // Run the query. } I can get Code: [Select] id categoryID cName cOrder clink cparent 1 1 Other 0 http://www.link.com?sub=1 0 2 1233916011 ceramic 1 http://www.link.com?sub=13476 0 2 1233917011 laminate 2 http://www.link.com?sub=98247 0 But I need to get the ChildCategory in there w/ cparent like Code: [Select] id categoryID cName cOrder clink cparent 1 1 Other 0 http://www.link.com?sub=1 0 2 1233916011 ceramic 1 http://www.link.com?sub=13476 0 3 1234016011 dish 1 1 <--- like this 4 1233917011 laminate 2 http://www.link.com?sub=98247 0 any help appreciated... So I am having some difficulties with a category system. I want my code to search the database an unlimited amount of times to the very last directory and then display it in tree view on my screen. I'm having some trouble because I am having to specify how many depths the code will search. How can I get it to do this on it's own? Currently my code does this... <?php // Establish SQL Connection. $mysqli = mysqli_connect( $sql['host'], $sql['user'], $sql['pass'], $sql['db'] ) or die( "DARN"); $query = $mysqli->query( "SELECT * FROM folders ORDER BY name ASC" ); $num_rows = $query->num_rows; echo "Found <b>" . $num_rows . "</b> row(s) in the database!<br>"; while ( $row = mysqli_fetch_array( $query ) ) { // DO NOT REMOVE $id = $row['id']; $name = $row['name']; $parent = $row['parent']; /***************************************************************************************************/ if ( $parent == 0 ) { echo $id . " " . $name . " " . $parent . "<br>"; $query2 = $mysqli->query( "SELECT * FROM folders WHERE parent = " . $id . " ORDER BY name ASC" ); while ( $row2 = mysqli_fetch_array( $query2 ) ) { echo " " . $row2['name'] . "<br>"; } } } ?>I know it's messy, doing the best I can. DB looks a little like this... +----+---------+--------+ Hi Guys, I've been using PHP for a few years now but for some reason I can never seem to get my head around arrays, basically I have a blog site that I want to show all posts that have been posted in public categories but ignore those in the private categories, I had the idea to put all the private category ID's into an array and use that to check against the posts, however my array isn't working out the way I'd hoped. This is what I have: $isPrivate = mysql_query("SELECT categoryID FROM mod_cat WHERE isPrivate =1") or die (mysql_error()); while ($isPrivateList = mysql_fetch_array($isPrivate, MYSQL_NUM)) { $ignoreList = $isPrivateList; } However this isn't working at all. I know its wrong I just can't work out how to make it right. This is the mySQL I want to use it with: mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS total_entries FROM mod_posts WHERE articlePosted =1 AND articleCat != $ignorelist") Could anyone please help me? Thanks in advance. Hello, I am trying create a news article, but I have few category in it. Can you help me to create an "add article form" which has dropdown list of category that I can choose, so when I select "Announcement" it will save the data on my mysql database under announcement table. sample html form below. <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""> <label> Category : <select name="category" id="category"> <option>--- choose category ---</option> <option>News</option> <option>Announcement</option> <option>Sports</option> </select> </label> <br /> Date: <br /> Title: <label> <input type="text" name="title" id="title" /> </label> <br /> Body: <label> <textarea name="body" id="body" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea> </label> <br /> <label> <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" /> </label> <br /> <br /> </form> Can you tell me how to create the php code which support the above html. Also, I would like to have a date and time on my article, but I want it automatically get the time and date from the computer of the client, so the user will not put it manually. can you point me to the correct code? Thanks and hope you can help me! I have created a form which allows people to add data to a database. However, I want to replicate the form across several pages and give each page a category. For example, if I have a website based on sport. I have a page which enters information into the baseball category, a page which enters information into the ice hockey category, a page which enters information into the soccer category etc. Can someone advise how I would do this? Hi friends, I have two mysql db tables, photos and album, I would like to list photos by album how do i do that ? CREATE TABLE `album` ( `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `album_name` varchar(95) NOT NULL, `album_desc` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ); CREATE TABLE `photos` ( `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `album_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `thumb_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `photo_name` varchar(250) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) Hello everyone, I am currently working on the script taken from www.phpwebcommerce.com I am only a beginner and have been using it in a little project for an online game just to help my mates be able to trade items and such. I have managed to get almost everything sorted apart from one thing. The function which gets the categories for a drop down select box: Code: [Select] /* Generate combo box options containing the categories we have. if $catId is set then that category is selected */ function buildCategoryOptions($catId = 0) { $sql = "SELECT cat_id, cat_parent_id, cat_name FROM tbl_category ORDER BY cat_id"; $result = dbQuery($sql) or die('Cannot get Product. ' . mysql_error()); $categories = array(); while($row = dbFetchArray($result)) { list($id, $parentId, $name) = $row; if ($parentId == 0) { // we create a new array for each top level categories $categories[$id] = array('name' => $name, 'children' => array()); } else { // the child categories are put int the parent category's array $categories[$parentId]['children'][] = array('id' => $id, 'name' => $name); } } // build combo box options $list = ''; foreach ($categories as $key => $value) { $name = $value['name']; $children = $value['children']; $list .= "<optgroup label=\"$name\">"; foreach ($children as $child) { $list .= "<option value=\"{$child['id']}\""; if ($child['id'] == $catId) { $list.= " selected"; } $list .= ">{$child['name']}</option>\r\n"; } $list .= "</optgroup>"; } return $list; } Basically the problem is that it only creates a category list of two levels e.g. Parent Child and I wish to be able to have more sub categories e.g. Parent Child Child Child Is there anyway of adapting this code so it can do something like that? Many thanks for any help. Hi Guys (& Ladies of course) I'm having a problem trying to add post category to the H1 title, I have managed to butcher my theme so that the single post now removes the H1 from the title in the header & instead adds it to the post title. But what I'd like to do now is keep the H1 blog title on all pages including home page, but I'd like to ammend the title with the addition of the post category, as follows; currently shows "Top Rated Gadgets" on all pages. would like it to show "Top Rated (category name)" when viewing a single post. So if the category of the post was Asus Laptops it would show "Top Rated Asus Laptops" instead of the usual "Top Rated Gadgets" The closest I have got to it so far is with Code: [Select] <?php the_category(', '); ?> but this returns a hyperlink ! Is there any method I can use that will simply return the category name as plain text..? Any help would be much appreciated Thanks I'm not sure why but I copied the correct syntax from the wp codex page for it to display the date and title which it displays the titles for the categories however it only displays the date for the headlines category and don't know why. Any answers? <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="left"> <div id="col1"> <img id="lp" src="../images/lp.jpg" alt="Latest Promo"> <img class="newslogos" src="../images/headlines.jpg" alt="DW Headlines"> <div class="mininews"> <?php //The Query query_posts('category_name=headlines'); //The Loop while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h3 class="date"><?php the_date(); ?></h3> <h4 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4> <?php endwhile; //Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?> </div> <!-- End of main news div (headlines) --> <img class="newslogos" src="../images/rumors.jpg" alt="DW Rumors"> <div class="mininews"> <?php //The Query query_posts('category_name=rumors'); //The Loop while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h3 class="date"><?php the_date(); ?></h3> <h4 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4> <?php endwhile; //Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?> </div> <!-- End of main news div (rumors) --> <img class="newslogos" src="../images/columns.jpg" alt="DW Columns"> <div class="mininews"> <?php //The Query query_posts('category_name=columns'); //The Loop while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h3 class="date"><?php the_date(); ?></h3> <h4 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4> <?php endwhile; //Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?> </div> <!-- End of main news div (columns) --> </div> <!-- End of col1 --> </div> <!-- End of left --> <div id="right"> </div> <?php get_footer(); ?> Hey i want to make category pages with php. so i have embeded youtube videos on my website and i want to make a category so that every embeded link that is named under that category goes on the new web page i am making. so lets say i have a category in my table that is called "Call of duty black ops" would the code be something like this ? ( and yes i want it to be ordered by date aswell ) Code: [Select] $query = "SELECT * FROM `G4V_Videos`.`Category`.`Call of duty black ops` ORDER BY `Date added` DESC LIMIT 24"; $result = mysql_query($query); thanks guys! Hi, I have been working on a directory/cms script (first large script to build from scratch). I am stuck on a small part of it where is shows users a list of the listings they have put in the directory. Below is the code that generates the table that shows the list of listings which is pulled from the 'listings' table in my database. Code: [Select] <?php ### List of listings user has posted ### if(isset($_SESSION['userlogged'])) { $user_id = $_SESSION['userlogged']; $sqlCommand = "SELECT listing_id, cat_id, listing_title, listing_date, showing FROM listings WHERE showing='0' AND user_id='$user_id' ORDER BY listing_id ASC"; $query = mysql_query($sqlCommand,$con) or die (mysql_error()); $ListingDisplay = ''; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $listing_id = $row["listing_id"]; $cat_id = $row['cat_id']; if ($cat_id == '1') { $cat_name = "Carpenters"; } if ($cat_id == '2') { $cat_name = "Stone Masons"; } if ($cat_id == '3') { $cat_name = "Plumbers"; } if ($cat_id == '4') { $cat_name = "Landscapers"; } $listing_title = $row["listing_title"]; $listing_date = $row["listing_date"]; $ListingDisplay .= ' <tr class="listingaccount"> <td><a href="edit_listing.php?lid=' . $listing_id . '">' . $listing_id . '</a></td> <td>' . $cat_name . '</td> <td>' . $listing_title . '</td> <td>' . $listing_date . '</td> <td><a class="hoverBtn" href="edit_listing.php?lid=' . $listing_id . '"><img src="images/btnedit.png" border="0"></a></td> <td><a class="hoverBtn" href="remove_listing.php?lid=' . $listing_id . '"><img src="images/btndelete.png" border="0"></a></td> </tr>'; } mysql_free_result($query); ?> <table width="680" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><h2>My Listings</h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="account_add_listing.php">Add New Listing</a></td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td>Listing Code</td> <td>Category</td> <td>Title</td> <td>Date Entered</td> <td> </td> </tr> <?php echo $ListingDisplay; ?> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <?php } ?> That all works just fine, but I would like to be able to generate the categories automatically. I am thinking some sort of array, but im not quite sure how to go about it and was hoping maybe someone could give me a starting point I could work from. My categories table is like this: -------------------------- | cat_id | cat_name | -------------------------- Many thanks Eoin I'm trying to make one big array with my websites menu that has the categorys and the products i'm using code i found at http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=326419.msg1536842#msg1536842 its working fine till i try get the sub category and its products into the array $cats = array( 0 => array( 'categoryID' => 1, 'name' => 'Menu', 'parent' => 0) ,1 => array( 'categoryID' => 50, 'name' => 'Takeaway', 'parent' => 60) ); //root of the category $categorys = array( 1 => array( 1 => array( 'categoryID' => 6 , 'name' => 'Breads' , 'parent' => 1 ) ,0 => array( 'categoryID' => 2 , 'name' => 'Drinks' , 'parent' => 1 ) ,2 => array( 'categoryID' => 7 , 'name' => 'Salads' , 'parent' => 1 ) ) ,2 => array( 0 => array( 'categoryID' => 4 , 'name' => 'Tea' , 'parent' => 2 ) ,1 => array( 'categoryID' => 18 , 'name' => 'Coffee' , 'parent' => 2 ) ) ); // the category themselfs $product = array(6 => array( 0 => array('productID' => 1, 'categoryID' => 6,'name' => 'Plain Bread', 'description' => 'description') ,1 => array('productID' => 2, 'categoryID' => 6, 'name' => 'Garlic Bread', 'description' => 'description') ) ,7 => array( 0 => array('productID' => 44, 'categoryID' => 7, 'name' => 'Garden Salad', 'description' => 'description') ,1 => array('productID' => 45, 'categoryID' => 7, 'name' => 'Greek Salad', 'description' => 'description') ) ,4 => array( 0 => array('productID' => 74, 'categoryID' => 4, 'name' => 'Green Tea', 'description' => 'description') ) ,18 => array( 0 => array('productID' => 75, 'categoryID' => 18, 'name' => 'Espresso', 'description' => 'description') ) ); // the products if(is_array($cats)) { foreach($cats as $cat) { if(is_array($categorys[$cat['categoryID']])) { foreach($categorys[$cat['categoryID']] as $category) { if(is_array($categorys[$category['categoryID']])) { foreach ($categorys[$category['categoryID']] as $subcat){ $subcat['product'] = $product[$subcat['categoryID']]; $subprod[] = $subcat; //have tryed using parent $subprod[$subcat['parent']] but it over rides it self each time } } $category['product'] = $product[$category['categoryID']]; $category['subcategory'] = $subprod; // here is where I'm having problem $this_category[] = $category; } } if(!empty($this_category)){ $ncategory[] = array($cat,$this_category); } $this_category = array(); } } print_r($ncategory); thank you for your time sorry for any spelling or grammar errors I need some help with the category part on a old project . The problem what I have at this moment that, when I click on the category all categories are showing up on the category.php page itself. What whI wanne have when I click Uncategorised that in the category.php page only post are showing that have been made in Uncategorised category function get_posts() { $sql = "SELECT `blog`.`post_id` AS `id`, `blog`.`post_title` AS `title`, LEFT(`blog`.`post_body`, 512) AS `preview`, `blog`.`post_user` AS `user`, `blog_categories`.`id` AS `category_id`, `blog_categories`.`name` AS `category_name`, DATE_FORMAT(`blog`.`post_date`, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS `date`, `blog_comments`.`total_comments`, DATE_FORMAT(`blog_comments`.`last_comment`, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS `last_comment` FROM `blog` INNER JOIN `blog_categories` ON `blog_categories`.`id` = `blog`.`cat_id` LEFT JOIN ( SELECT `post_id`, COUNT(`comment_id`) AS `total_comments`, MAX(`comment_date`) AS `last_comment` FROM `blog_comments` GROUP BY `post_id` ) AS `blog_comments` ON `blog`.`post_id` = `blog_comments`.`post_id` ORDER BY `blog`.`post_date` DESC"; $posts = mysql_query($sql); $rows = array(); while (($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($posts)) !== false) { $rows[]= array( 'id' => $row['id'], 'title' => $row['title'], 'preview' => $row['preview'], 'user' => $row['user'], 'date' => $row['date'], 'category_id' => $row['category_id'], 'category_name' => $row['category_name'], 'total_comments' => ($row['total_comments'] === null) ? 0 : $row['total_comments'], 'last_comments' => ($row['last_comment'] === null) ? 'never' : $row['last_comment'] ); } return $rows; } function get_post($pid) { $pid = (int)$pid; $sql = "SELECT `post_title` AS `title`, `post_body` AS `body`, `post_user` AS `user`, `blog_categories`.`id` AS `category_id`, `blog_categories`.`name` AS `category_name`, DATE_FORMAT(`post_date`, '%d-%m-%Y %H:%i') AS `date` FROM `blog` INNER JOIN `blog_categories` ON `blog_categories`.`id` = `blog`.`cat_id` WHERE `post_id` = '$pid'"; $post = mysql_query($sql); $post = mysql_fetch_assoc($post); $post['blog_comments'] = get_comments($pid); return $post; }
The old way was like this if ( isset($cat_id)) { $cat_id = (int) $cat_id; $query .= " WHERE `blog_categories`.`id` = $cat_id"; } Database blog_categories id | name | ----------- 4 Uncategorised 1 Youtube blog post_id | cat_id | post_title | post_body | post_user | post_date ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | 1 | Youtube | Youtube link | Admin | 2020-09-13 16:10:53 Web server Apache/2.2.21 (Win64) PHP/5.3.10 MySQL-client versie: mysqlnd 5.0.8-dev - 20102224 - $Revision: 321634 $ PHP uitbreiding: mysqli Documentatie phpMyAdmin Versie informatie: 3.4.10.1, meest recente versie: 5.0.2 I hope someone can help me with this problem Hi all. This seems like a pretty basic function but I can't work it out. I'm developing a WordPress site and want to list posts (products) by category. I'm using Advanced Custom Fields and have set up the taxonomy of 'category'. I just want to produce a heading for that category and then list all of the posts with that category assigned. Please see below functions.php excerpt and section-archive.php excerpt. Can anyone please help??? Massive good karma if you can. ----------------------- functions.php -------------------------------------- //Assign Category to Products
function taxonomy ()
$args = array (
}; ?> ------------------------- section-archive.php ------------------------------------------------ <?php if(have_posts()):while(have_posts()): the_post();?>
****** if product category= this ***** Category heading ****** Posts ******* Else ****** if product category= this2 ***** Category heading ****** Posts **** etc
<div class="prod-listing">
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