PHP - Trying To Do A Drop Down Menu Of Items In The Database

I have a webpage where all the database items are displyes in a table format.The table also has a check box.Upon clicking the delete button i need to delete all the items whish has the checkbox checked.
How will i do that

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if there's an easier way of doing what accomplishing the following:

I have a value in my database which represents a selection in a drop down menu, i want to read it from the database and have it automatically selected depending on the stored data.

I have the following working but just wondered if there was an easier way to get the same result:

Code: [Select]
<?php
//database connection

$query = "SELECT id
  FROM  `tablename`
  WHERE  username='$username'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_object($result);

$id = $row->id;
$id = (int)$id;
?>

<select name="id">
<option value="">Select your option...</option>
<option value="1" <?php if (($id - 1) === 0) { echo 'selected="selected"'; }?>>Selection 1</option>
<option value="2"<?php if (($id - 2) === 0) { echo 'selected="selected"'; }?>>Selection 2</option>
</select>

Sorry if it's not very clear, i'll explain best i can if anyone can help.

Thanks

I am having a lot of trouble with this code, and I have no clue how to fix it.  Right now, I have a GUI for a fictitious car dealership that has 5 populated drop down menus called Make, Model, Year, Color, and Mileage.  What I want the code to do is read the selections made by the user with the drop down menus once the user hits the submit button and then filter the tables that I have in a mysql database to meets the choice requirements of the user.

The code will bring up the GUI, but once I hit the submit button, I get the following errors

Please if anyone can help me that would be fantastic.  I really have no clue

Hello all 

Ok here is the problem...
I want when a user inputs the requested data to the text fields , the script to insert those data in the prope table depending on the choise the user does by choosing one option from the drop down menu.
Below is the php code (apparently not working)


$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}
$site_type = $_REQUEST['category_selection'];
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "link_submission") && ($site_type = "Web_Sites")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO partner_sites (url, url_title, anchor_text, `description`, webmaster_name, webmaster_email, category) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['url_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['title_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['anchor_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['description_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_nane_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_email_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['category_selection'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_content_conn, $content_conn);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $content_conn) or die(mysql_error()); 

}

if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "link_submission") && ($site_type = "Blogs")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO partner_blogs (url, url_title, anchor_text, `description`, webmaster_name, webmaster_email, category) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['url_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['title_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['anchor_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['description_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_nane_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_email_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['category_selection'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_content_conn, $content_conn);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $content_conn) or die(mysql_error());

}

if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "link_submission") && ($site_type = "Directories")) {
  $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO partner_directories (url, url_title, anchor_text, `description`, webmaster_name, webmaster_email, category) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['url_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['title_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['anchor_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['description_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_nane_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['webmaster_email_field'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['category_selection'], "text"));

  mysql_select_db($database_content_conn, $content_conn);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $content_conn) or die(mysql_error());
}

And the html form

<form action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="link_submission" id="link_submission">

<table width="630" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
  <tr>
    <td width="76">URL:*</td>
    <td width="519"><label for="url_field"></label>
      <span id="sprytextfield1">
      <label for="url_field"></label>
      <input name="url_field" type="text" id="url_field" size="50" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Invalid format.</span></span></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Anchor Text:*</td>
    <td><label for="anchor_field"><span id="sprytextfield2">
      <input type="text" name="anchor_field" id="anchor_field" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></label></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>URL Title:*</td>
    <td><label for="title_field"><span id="sprytextfield3">
      <input type="text" name="title_field" id="title_field" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></label></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Description:*</td>
    <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
    <label for="description_field"></label>
    <textarea name="description_field" id="description_field" cols="45" rows="3"></textarea>
    <span id="countsprytextarea1">&nbsp;</span><span class="textareaRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="textareaMaxCharsMsg">Exceeded maximum number of characters.</span></span></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Webmaster Name:*</td>
    <td><label for="textfield2"><span id="sprytextfield4">
      <input type="text" name="webmaster_nane_field" id="webmaster_nane_field" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></label></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Webmaster E-mail:*</td>
    <td><label for="textfield3"><span id="sprytextfield5">
    <input name="webmaster_email_field" type="text" id="webmaster_email_field" size="40" />
    <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="textfieldInvalidFormatMsg">Invalid format.</span></span></label></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Category:*</td>
    <td><span id="spryselect1">
      <label for="category_selection"></label>
      <select name="category_selection" id="category_selection">
        <option>Select An Option</option>
        <option value="Web_Sites">Web Sites</option>
        <option value="Blogs">Blogs</option>
        <option value="Directories">Directories</option>
      </select>
<span class="selectRequiredMsg">Please select an item.</span></span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td><label for="select"></label>
      <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Url Submission" /></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="link_submission" />
</form>

Im begging for your help.....

As a complete newbie to php and webdesigning i have a following problem.I would like to retrieve the data from database and display it in a drop down menu.Then i should allow the user to select the values from drop down list along with other details,in other words i have to embed the drop down output as the form input for the user and store the form data in another table.I am running a xampp server and i am using php 5.4 version.Please help.My code is as follows.In this case project_name is displayed as the drop down output.but how do i use the same drop down output as a input in the form.
 
 
 
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED);
include 'connect.php' ;
$tbl_name="projects";


$sql="SELECT project_name FROM $tbl_name ";

$result=mysql_query($sql);


if($result === FALSE) {
    die(mysql_error());
}
?>


<form name="resources" action="hourssubmit.php"  method="post" >

<?php
echo "<select name='project_name'>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    
    echo "<option value='" . $row['project_name'] ."'>" . $row['project_name'] ."</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
?>

</form>
</body>
</html>