PHP - Mysql Search Across Multiple Tables

Hi guys, I'm trying to query two tables for different data and echo the results that match both tables. Here are the tables I have and the query I'm trying to run.
(Table)
qc_reports

(Fields)
id
report_date
report_lot_number    
report_po
report_supplier    
report_buyer    
report_inspectedby    
report_pulptemprange    
report_carrierconditions
report_supplierclaim    
report_carrierclaim    
report_temprecorder    
report_temprange_N    
report_temprange_M    
report_temprange_B    
report_suppliercontact
report_contactedby    
report_time    
report_comments

(Table)
qc_lots

(Fields)
id
report_id
lot_temprange    
lot_commodity    
lot_rpcs    
lot_brand    
lot_terms    
lot_cases    
lot_orgn    
lot_estnum
lot_avgnum

This is the query that I'm trying to do.

Code: [Select]
<?php
$sql = "SELECT * FROM qc_reports, qc_lots WHERE  ";
if (!empty($start_date) and !empty($end_date)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_date BETWEEN '$start_date' and '$end_date' AND ";
if (!empty($search_fronteralot)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_lot_number = '$search_fronteralot' AND ";
if (!empty($search_buyer)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_buyer = '$search_buyer' AND ";
if (!empty($search_supplier)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_supplier = '$search_supplier' AND ";
if (!empty($search_po)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_po = '$search_po' AND ";
if (!empty($search_carrierconditions) and $search_carrierconditions != 'all') $sql .= " qc_reports.report_carrierconditions = '$search_carrierconditions' AND ";
 if (!empty($search_commodity) and $search_commodity != 'all') $sql .= " qc_lots.lot_commodity = '$search_commodity' AND ";
if (!empty($search_inspectedby)) $sql .= " qc_reports.report_inspectedby = '$search_inspectedby' AND ";

$sql = substr($sql, 0, -4);

$query = mysql_query($sql);


$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
?>
RESULTS - <?php echo $numrows; ?>
<hr>
<table width='500'><tr><td><b>Date</b></td><td><b>Lot Number</b></td><td><b>PO</b></td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
$id = stripslashes($row['id']);
$report_lot_number = stripslashes($row['report_lot_number']);
$report_po = stripslashes($row['report_po']);
$report_date = stripslashes($row['report_date']);

echo "<tr>
<td>" . $report_date . "</td></td><td>" . $report_lot_number . "</td><td>" . $report_po . "</td><td><a href='view_report.php?id=" . $id . "'>View</a></td>
</tr>";
}
echo '</table><br><br><br><hr><br><br>';

}

?>
All the variables are passed from a HTML form with $_POST. I need the search to work like this: If there is a value in a form field then the query gets appended with that value but when it gets to the $search_commodity it needs to search the second table (qc_lots) and check for the results. Any results that match have to be matched to the results from the first table (qc_reports) and display (echo) only qc_reports that match to both tables. The only common field is the report_id on the qc_lots table and the id on the qc_reports table.

I'm stuck and need some guidance. Can someone help please?

I have a search set up to search a table for the text entered in a textbox, I have two columns in the table, one with the first name of people, and the second with their last names, I am wondering how I can search both, so for instance:

I type in the search field: Roger Smith

in the database it would look like:

First_name-----|-----Last_name
-------------------|-------------------
Roger------------|-------Smith

my current query is:

Code: [Select]
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE fname LIKE '%$find%' OR lname LIKE '%$find%'");
But if I type both parts of the name it doesn't return anything. works fine if I just search for "Roger" OR "Smith".

I have a multiple choice search page which asks visitors to select one or more choices before rendering the search results. It only works in items 1+2 are selected, or 1+2+3, or 1+2+3+4, or 1+2+3+4, etc...

I want to make it so that any combination of choices work. Example: Items 1+6 or 2+3+5 or 1+4+6 etc...

I have four hours to fix it before my client shows up and need help BADLY.

Anyone out there who can help? Whoever can help me... you are the best and I will have a special prayer for you tonight.

Here is the coding:

<?php } else{
if(!empty($_GET['latt']) && !empty($_GET['long']))
{

$condition="SELECT ( 3959 * acos( cos( radians(  '".$_GET['latt']."' ) ) * cos( radians( latitude ) ) * cos( radians( longitude ) - radians(  '".$_GET['long']."' ) ) + sin( radians( '".$_GET['latt']."' ) ) * sin( radians( latitude ) ) ) ) as distance,id,membership FROM notary_members ";

   if(!empty($_GET['s']))
   {
      $a=" where and";
   }
   else
   {
      $a=" where";
   }
   if($_GET['edoc']!='')
   {
      $condition.=$a." edoc= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['esign']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and esign= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=$a." esign= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['laserprinter']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and laserprinter= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" laserprinter= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['dualtray']!='')
   {
      if( $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and dualtray= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" dualtray= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['error_in']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and error_in= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" error_in= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['bg_checked']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and bg_checked= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" bg_checked= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['home_insp']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and home_insp= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" home_insp= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['fingerprint']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and fingerprint= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" fingerprint= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['hosp_signing']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and hosp_signing= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" hosp_signing= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['jail_signing']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and jail_signing= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" jail_signing= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['im_docs']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['jail_signing']!='' || $_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and im_docs= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" im_docs= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['jail_signing']!='' || $_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='' || $_GET['im_docs']!='')
   {
    $condition.=" and status=1 order by distance asc";
    }
    else
    {
    $condition.=$a." status=1 order by distance asc";
    }

   $sql=mysql_query($condition);
   $num=mysql_num_rows($sql);
   $getmile=explode(' ',$_GET['miles']);
   
        $c=0;
        while($getidres=mysql_fetch_array($sql))
      {
          if($getidres['distance']<=$getmile[0])
        {
            if($getidres['membership']=='premium')
            {
            $prefirst[$getidres['id']]=$getidres['distance'];
            $c++;
            }
            else
            {
            $basicfirst[$getidres['id']]=$getidres['distance'];
             $c++;
            }
        }
        }
      
      if(!empty($sql))
     {
      
          if($c!=0)
         {
            if(!empty($prefirst) || !empty($basicfirst))
            { ?>

  Basically I want to add up multiple tables and display a grand total on my page when the radio button is pressed. The radio button has values that connect to my database and the values link to and ID with a price. How can I use this code in order to work out a grand total? Many thanks. I have searched everywhere but found nothing.

I have a simple (1 table, 14 fields) database. I'm using 9 separate search boxes from my search page :
http://www.cinemaposter.com/database.html
There are currently 162 entries. Hitting "submit" throws them all out, same with valid input into any box, with the exception of "country" - example  : entering "F" gives 20results; "PL" gives 34 results.
Here's my code (to simplify, I only went down to the 4th box ('country' - the last and only one giving correct results).  I'm one sorry newbie.... please help !
Here's the code :
------------------

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <title>Search Results</title>
   <meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.5">
   <style type="text/css">
td
{
   color: #000000;
   font-family: arial;
   font-size: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$link = mysql_connect("xxxx", "xxxx", "xxxx") or die("Could not connect");
///print "Connected successfully<BR>";
mysql_select_db("xxxx") or die("Could not select database");


{
$Author = $_POST['Author'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Author LIKE '%$Author%'";
}

{
$Title = $_POST['Title'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Title LIKE '%$Title%'";
}

{
$Originaltitle =$_POST['Originalitle'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Originaltitle LIKE '%$Originaltitle%'";
}

{
$Country =$_POST['Country'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Country LIKE '%$Country%'";
}


$result = mysql_query ($sql) or die("Query failed : " . mysql_error());
$numrs = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($numrs > 0){

if ($numrs==1){
   print ("<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b>There is $numrs record in our database.</B> <BR><BR>");
   }elseif($numrs>1){
   print ("<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b>There are $numrs records in our database. </B><BR><BR>");//Apparently, he wan't to be able to search again...</b><form method \"POST\" action=\"$PHP_SELF\">Search Again:");
   }
   
   
   
   
  echo("<a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'>Go Back</a></p>");
  print("<P align=center>Click on the column heading links to sort the results.<br><br />");   
   
print ("<TABLE CELLPADDING=\"1\" CELLSPACING=\"2\" BORDER=\"0\">\n");
PRINT ("<TR BGCOLOR=\"#FFFF77\">
<TD COLSPAN=2><P align=center>Author</td>
<TD><P align=center>Title</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Original Title</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Country</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Director</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Cast</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Year</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Original Year</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Photo</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Producer</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Circulation</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Size</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Print type</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Remarks</TD></TR>");

$z=1;
      while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      
         $num=$z++;
         //Note here that I'm assigning the found objects new names (indicated by lowercase) to that php wont get confused.....
         $auth=$line['Author'];
         $title=$line['Title'];
         $originaltitle=$line['Originaltitle'];
         $country=$line['Country'];
         $director=$line['Director'];
         $cast=$line['Cast'];
         $year=$line['Year'];
         $originalyear=$line['Originalyear'];
         $producer=$line['Producer'];
         $circ=$line['Circulation'];
         $size=$line['Size'];
         $print=$line['Print'];
         $remarks=$line['Remarks'];
         $pict=$line['Picture'];


         //Set the formatting
         $bgcolor = ($i++ & 1) ? '#d3d3d3' : '#c0c0c0';
         
                           
      PRINT("<TR BGCOLOR=$bgcolor>
      <TD>$num.</TD>
      <TD>$auth</td>
      <TD>$title</TD>
      <TD>$originaltitle</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$country</TD>
      <TD>$director</TD>
      <TD>$cast</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$year</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$originalyear</TD><TD>");
// This is the test to find do we have a picture
if ($pict) {
// If there is a picture, display it:
print ("<P align=center><a href='zdjecie.php?zdj= $pict&autor=$auth&opis=$title&orig=$originaltitle&rok=$year' target='_blank'>
<img src=$pict height=\"150\"></a>");
} else {

// We don't have a picture, so we print some text instead:
print ("<P align=center>no picture available");
}

print ("</TD><TD>$producer</TD>
<TD><P align=center>$circ</TD>
<TD>$size</TD>
<TD>$print</TD>
<TD>$remarks</TD></TR>");
            
         }
      PRINT("</TABLE><BR><font face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">Search Again</a></font>");
   }else {
   print ("<font face=\"Arial\">Sorry, there were no results for your search. <a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">Please try again</a></font>");
   }
//mysql_close($link);
?>                                                                     
</body>
</html>

I want to have a search product feature, but I would like members to be able to search multiple fields in one go i.e.  product_code, Product_name in one MySQL query.

The thing is, members have to be logged on, so the query must also only show results relating to that specific member, via the session[member_ID], my current query for listing products for that specific member is :

Code: [Select]
$sql = "SELECT productId, productCode, image, name, price, stock_level FROM product_inventory WHERE memberr_ID = '" . $_SESSION['SESS_mem_ID'] . ";
How would I change the above into a search query to search for productcode, productname and still only show results beloging to this member using the session data ? 

all help appreciated

Ok, so I've spent quite a bit of time piecing together this solution from a variety of sources. As such, I may have something in my code below that doesn't make sense or isn't neccessary. Please let me know if that is the case.

I'm creating an administrative form that users will you to add/remove items from a MySQL table that lists open positions for a facility. The foreach loop generates all of the possible job specialties from a table called 'specialty_list'. This table is joined to a second table ('open_positions') that lists any positions that have been selected previously.

Where I'm stuck is getting the checkbox to be checked if the facility_ID from the open_positions table matches the $id passed in the URL via ?facility_id=''. Here's where I am so far:


$query = "SELECT specialty_list.specialty_displayname
 , specialty_shortname
     , open_positions.position
     , facility_ID
  FROM specialty_list
LEFT OUTER
  JOIN open_positions
    ON open_positions.position = specialty_list.specialty_shortname
ORDER 
    BY specialty_list.specialty_shortname";

$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) 
{ 
$positions[$row['specialty_shortname']] = $row['specialty_displayname'];
}

echo "<form method='POST' action='checkbox.php'>";
foreach($positions as $specialty_shortname => $specialty_displayname) 
{
$facility_ID = $row['facility_ID'];
  
$checked = $facility_ID == $row['facility_ID'] ? ' checked' : ''; 

echo "<input type='checkbox' name='position[]' value=\"{$specialty_shortname}\"{$checked}>&nbsp;&nbsp;{$specialty_displayname}</input><br/>"; 

}  
echo "<input type='hidden' name='facility_ID' value='$id'>";
echo "<input type='submit' value='Submit Checkboxes!'>";
echo "</form>";


Any ideas how to get this working? I feel like I'm very close, but I just can't get it. I also tried starting from scratch with a WHILE statement instead of a FOREACH, but haven't tweaked it enough to prevent duplicate checkboxes. With that in mind, here it is, just in case that's a better direction:


$query = "SELECT specialty_list.specialty_displayname
 , specialty_shortname
     , open_positions.position
     , facility_ID
  FROM specialty_list
LEFT OUTER
  JOIN open_positions
    ON open_positions.position = specialty_list.specialty_shortname
ORDER 
    BY specialty_list.specialty_shortname";

$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

echo "<form method='POST' action='checkbox.php'>";

while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($results))
{ 
$facility_ID = $row['facility_ID'];
$specialty_shortname = $row['specialty_shortname'];
$specialty_displayname = $row['specialty_displayname'];


if ($facililty_ID==$id) {

$checked=' checked';
}

echo "<input type='checkbox' name='position[]' value=\"$specialty_shortname\"$checked>&nbsp;&nbsp;$specialty_displayname</input><br/>"; 
}

echo "<input type='hidden' name='facility_ID' value='$id'>";
echo "<input type='submit' value='Submit Checkboxes!'>";
echo "</form>";

Hello,

Does anyone know a tutorial I can follow to create my own search engine over the items I have in my SQL database?
I find a lot of tutorials but they are all 'one word searches' which means if you type two words you will get all results that contain either word (too many hits).

If the search engine tutorial displays result with AJAX even better.

Thanks for help.
df

Need some help I have 2 tables in a database and I need to search the first table and use the results from that search, to search another table, can this be done? and if it can how would you recommend that I go about it?

Thanks For Your Help Guys! 

This portion is kind of stumping me. Basically, I have a two tables in this DB: users and users_access_level (Separated for DB normalization)

users: id / username / password / realname / access_level
users_access_level: access_level / access_name

What I'm trying to do, is echo the data onto an HTML table that displays users.username in one table data and then uses the users.access_level to find users_access_level.access_name and echo into the following table data, I would prefer not to use multiple queries if possible or nested queries.

Example row for users: 1234 / tmac / password / tmac / 99
Example row for users_access_level: 99 / Admin

Using the examples above, I would want the output to appear as such:

Username: Access Name: Tmac Admin
I am not 100% sure where to start with this, but I pick up quickly, I just need a nudge in the right direction.

The code I attempted to create just shows my lack of knowledge of joining tables, but I'll post it if you want to see that I did at least make an effort to code this myself.

Thanks for reading!

I have a search where I want to be able to search a string of words. The search is going to be looking in 2 different table joined by a left outer join. The tables are "quotes" and "categories".

$sql="SELECT q.id, q.username, q.quote, q.by, q.voteup, q.votedown, q.servtime, c.quote_id, c.label FROM quotes q LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c ON q.id = c.quote_id WHERE ( q.username LIKE '$srch' OR q.quote LIKE '$srch' OR q.`by` LIKE '$srch' OR c.label LIKE '$srch')";
   
The above mysql statement works and returns values..BUT if say, I search "john" and "funny", and a quote is posted by the user "john", but has a category of "funny" it will output the same quote twice. I was wondering if there was a way to see if a quote has either 1 term or both terms, if so display that quote but only display it once. Below is what the query is outputting.


[100] => Array
        (
            [id] => 100
            [username] => John
            [quote] => new test quote blah blah
            [by] => John
            [voteup] => 0
            [votedown] => 0
            [servtime] => 2010-12-02 @ 16:27:03
            [label] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Historic
                    [1] => Serious
                    [2] => Funny
                )

        )


Here is the code in full.


////
$sword = explode(" ",$search);
foreach($sword as $sterm){
$srch="%".$sterm."%";
echo"$srch<br />";
$sql="SELECT q.id, q.username, q.quote, q.by, q.voteup, q.votedown, q.servtime, c.quote_id, c.label FROM quotes q LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c ON q.id = c.quote_id WHERE ( q.username LIKE '$srch' OR q.quote LIKE '$srch' OR q.`by` LIKE '$srch' OR c.label LIKE '$srch')";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_fetch_object($result)){
$quote[$row->id]['id'] = $row->id;
$quote[$row->id]['username'] = $row->username;
$quote[$row->id]['quote'] = $row->quote;
$quote[$row->id]['by'] = $row->by;
$quote[$row->id]['voteup'] = $row->voteup;
$quote[$row->id]['votedown'] = $row->votedown;
$quote[$row->id]['servtime'] = $row->servtime;
$quote[$row->id]['label'][] = $row->label;
}
echo"<pre>";
print_r($quote);
echo"</pre>";


I don't think this is the fastest way of doing this, as it loops for each item in the db, per each keyword that is search.

Any help would be great!!
-BaSk

I have a form where a user can duplicate part of a form like below:


I've named the fields with the HTML arrays (ie. "fieldName[]") and came up with this:

//--> CONTROLLERS
$system_controllers_qty = $_POST['system_controllers_qty'];
$system_controllers_make = $_POST['system_controllers_make'];
$system_controllers_model = $_POST['system_controllers_model'];
$system_controllers_serial_no         = $_POST['system_controllers_serial_no'];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($system_controllers_qty); $i++)
{
echo "qty " . clean($system_controllers_qty[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "make " . clean($system_controllers_make[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "model " . clean($system_controllers_model[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "serial_no " . clean($system_controllers_serial_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
}

//--> CPUS
$system_cpus_qty = $_POST['system_cpus_qty'];
$system_cpus_model = $_POST['system_cpus_model'];
$system_cpus_serial_no = $_POST['system_cpus_serial_no'];
$system_cpus_speed = $_POST['system_cpus_speed'];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($system_cpus_qty); $i++)
{
echo "qty " . clean($system_cpus_qty[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "model " . clean($system_cpus_model[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "serial_no " . clean($system_cpus_serial_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "speed " . clean($system_cpus_speed[$i]) . "<br/>";
}

//--> DISKS
$system_disks_qty = $_POST['system_disks_qty'];
$system_disks_make = $_POST['system_disks_make'];
$system_disks_model_no = $_POST['system_disks_model_no'];
$system_disks_size = $_POST['system_disks_size'];
$system_disks_serial_no = $_POST['system_disks_serial_no'];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($system_disks_qty); $i++)
{
echo "qty " . clean($system_disks_qty[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "make " . clean($system_disks_make[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "model_no " . clean($system_disks_model_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "size " . clean($system_disks_size[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "serial_no " . clean($system_disks_serial_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
}

//--> MEMORY
$system_memory_qty = $_POST['system_memory_qty'];
$system_memory_serial_no = $_POST['system_memory_serial_no'];
$system_memory_manf = $_POST['system_memory_manf'];
$system_memory_part_no = $_POST['system_memory_part_no'];
$system_memory_size = $_POST['system_memory_size'];
for ($i = 0; $i < count($system_memory_qty); $i++)
{
echo "qty " . clean($system_memory_qty[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "serial " . clean($system_memory_serial_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "manf " . clean($system_memory_manf[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "part_no " . clean($system_memory_part_no[$i]) . "<br/>";
echo "size " . clean($system_memory_size[$i]) . "<br/>";
}


This just outputs all the fields I post at the moment. Say I have 3 different disk types, it's going to loop 3 times. Is it possible to make this all into 1 giant query or am I better off doing each query separately? Each section is a different table.

I am trying to export multiple csv files to download from 2 separate tables in my database.

Some background:
I have a web app that links to a phpmyadmin database. There are 2 tables in the database (entering and exiting). These tables hold the phone inventory information of employees currently entering or exiting the organization.

The fields in my tables a

location, firstname, lastname, username, extension, mac, type

What I am trying to do is export the data in these 2 tables to CSV (which I have working now) but I need to have multiple CSVs for each.

For example, for my exiting table, I need to have one CSV export all the fields in the table and I also need another CSV to export just the location and username field. I have a simple html form with a submit button which is currently working now:

<form action="exportexiting.php" method="POST" style="width: 456px; height: 157px">
   <div>
   <fieldset>
   <legend style="width: 102px; height: 25px"><strong>Entering CSV:</strong></legend>
   <input name="Export" type="submit" id="Export" value="Export">
   </fieldset><br/>
   </div>
</form>


This links to my exportexiting.php file:

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$pass = 'xxxx';
$db = 'PhoneInventory';
$table = 'exiting';


 
// Connect to the database
$link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);
mysql_select_db($db);
 
require 'exportcsv.inc.php';

 
exportMysqlToCsv($table);
 
 
 
?>

Then to exportcsv.inc.php:

<?php
 
function exportMysqlToCsv($table,$filename = 'export.csv')
{
    $csv_terminated = "\n";
    $csv_separator = ",";
    $csv_enclosed = '';
    $csv_escaped = "\\";
    $sql_query = "select * from $table";
 
    // Gets the data from the database
    $result = mysql_query($sql_query);
    $fields_cnt = mysql_num_fields($result);
 
 
    $schema_insert = '';
 
    for ($i = 0; $i < $fields_cnt; $i++)
    {
        $l = $csv_enclosed . str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed,
            stripslashes(mysql_field_name($result, $i))) . $csv_enclosed;
        $schema_insert .= $l;
        $schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
    } // end for
 
    $out = trim(substr($schema_insert, 0, -1));
    $out .= $csv_terminated;
 
    // Format the data
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        $schema_insert = '';
        for ($j = 0; $j < $fields_cnt; $j++)
        {
            if ($row[$j] == '0' || $row[$j] != '')
            {
 
                if ($csv_enclosed == '')
                {
                    $schema_insert .= $row[$j];
                } else
                {
                    $schema_insert .= $csv_enclosed .
               str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed, $row[$j]) . $csv_enclosed;
                }
            } else
            {
                $schema_insert .= '';
            }
 
            if ($j < $fields_cnt - 1)
            {
                $schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
            }
        } // end for
 
        $out .= $schema_insert;
        $out .= $csv_terminated;
    } // end while
 
    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    header("Content-Length: " . strlen($out));
    // Output to browser with appropriate mime type, you choose
    header("Content-type: text/x-csv");
    //header("Content-type: text/csv");
    //header("Content-type: application/csv");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
    echo $out;
    exit;
 
}
 
?>



Again, this is working perfectly for only exporting all the data from the exiting table into one CSV file. My question is, how can I make my one submit button export the 2 CSV files that I need?


Thanks for the help...

 The result pages is supposed to have  pagination like google  help me please