PHP - Posting To Database

I have an email form that is working wonderfully. I have a select box that has a list of names of people that you can email. That list is being pulled from a database.

It is currently sending to the email related to the name selected in the dropdown menu. However, in the email that sends, I would like the name of the recipient to show up in the greeting. I.E. Dear "name from dropdown".

How do I go about doing this. My select box that holds the query for the name is as folows:

<?php 
echo '<select name="First_and_Last_Name">';
while( $array = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
    $text_for_select = $array["First_Name"] . " " . $array["Last_Name"]. " " . $array["District"];
$value_for_select = $array["Email"];
echo "<option></option>\n";
echo "<option value=\"$value_for_select\">$text_for_select</option>\n"; 
}
echo '</select>';?> 

No, this is querying the First and Last Name and another variable called district in to a new variable called "text_for_select". I just want to either print the "text_for_select" after the "Dear", or better yet, just the "First_Name" and "Last_Name".

How would I get this to print there?

I'm having problems posting date from my MYSQL database. The date in my database is this "2011-01-08 02:53:14" but the it only echo's "01.01.70"

Could someone help me figure out why?

Here is my code:

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<?php
$servername='localhost';


$dbusername='root';
$dbpassword='';


$dbname='store';



connecttodb($servername,$dbname,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
function connecttodb($servername,$dbname,$dbuser,$dbpassword)
{
global $link;
$link=mysql_connect ("$servername","$dbuser","$dbpassword");
if(!$link){die("Could not connect to MySQL");}
mysql_select_db("$dbname",$link) or die ("could not open db".mysql_error());
}

// Get all the data from the "example" table
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM henvendelser WHERE status = 'Ubehandlet' ORDER by id desc ") 
or die(mysql_error());  

echo "<table cellspacing='12px' cellpaddomg='5px' align='center'>";
echo "<tr> <th>ID</th> <th> Opprettet </th> <th>Navn</th> <th>Telefon</th>  <th>Emne</th> </tr>";
// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get

  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

    $postTime = $row['date'];
    $thisTime = time();
    $timeDiff = $thisTime-$postTime;

    if($timeDiff <= 604800) { // Less than 7 days[60*60*24*7]
      $color = '#D1180A';
    } else if($timeDiff > 604800 && $timeDiff <= 1209600) { // Greater than 7 days[60*60*24*7], less than 14 days[60*60*24*14]
      $color = '#D1B30A';
    } else if($timeDiff > 1209600) { // Greater than 14 days[60*60*24*14]
      $color = '#08C90F';
    }

    echo '<tr style="color: '.$color.';">';

    echo '<td>'. $row['id'] .'</td>';

    echo '<td>'. date('d.m.y', $postTime) .'</td>';

    echo '<td><a href="detaljer.php?view='. $row['id'] .'">'. $row['Navn'] .'</a></td>';
  
    echo '<td>'. $row['Telefon'] .'</td>';

    echo '<td>'. $row['Emne'] .'</td>';

    echo '</tr>';

  }

  echo '</table>';
?>

Hi everyone,

First off thank you very kindly to anyone who can provide some enlightenment to this total php/mysql newb.  I am creating my first database and while I have been able to connect to the database within my php script (or so I believe), the form data does not appear to be actually getting sent. 

I have development experience in other languages but this is completely new to me so if I've missed something that appears painfully obvious like a parse error of some sort, I do apologize.  I am creating a website using Godaddy as the hosting account, and attempting to connect to the mysql database at the following URL (maybe this is where I'm going wrong):

"pnmailinglist.db.4662743.hostedresource.com"

Below is my very simple code:

<?php

//Verify successful connection to database.

$connect = mysql_connect("pnmailinglist.db.4662743.hostedresource.com", "*********", "*********");

if(!$connect)
{die("Could not connect!");
}

//Initialize variables with form data.

$firstname = $_POST['FirstName'];
$lastname = $_POST['LastName'];
$email = $_POST['Email'];
$howfound = $_POST['HowFound'];

//Post data to database, or return error.

mysql_select_db("pnmailinglist", $connect);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO mailinglist (First, Last, Email, How_Found) VALUES ($firstname,$lastname,$email,$howfound)");

mysql_close($connect);

echo "Thank you for joining our mailing list!  We will contact you soon with the dates and times of our upcoming events.";

?>



Thank you again very much for any pointers or hints as to where I'm screwing up.  I get no runtime errors, no syntax errors, and the echo message does display fine at the end -- just no data when I go to check my database! 


Best Regards,

CL

Ok, I have one database three tables.

Table 1 is ncmr the main table where everything is to be entered.

Table 2 is companies, where all the companies in pull down menu 1 is located.

Table 3 is fabricators, where all the people who have had hands on the product are residing.

I want the selected choices of table 2 and 3 to be inputed into table 1. I know this has to be possible, but I don't know how.  I thought I wrote the code correctly, but it seems not.

Can someone review my code and show me where my mistake is?

Here is the page:

http://kaboomlabs.com/PDI/post2.php

Thanks.

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    <?php
    
    require_once('connectvars.php');
     $dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME)
     or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.');
    ?>
   
    <!DOCTYPE html
         PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
   
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>PDI Non-Conforming Materials Report</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CSS/postie.css" />
   
    </head>
   
    <body>
    <div id="logo">
    <img src="images/PDI_Logo_2.1.gif" alt="PDI Logo" />
    </div>
   
    <div id="title">
    <h3 id="NCMR2">Non-Conforming Materials Report (NCMR)</h3>
    </div>
    <?php
    //Post Data
     if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
     $ab = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['ab']);
     $date = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,date('Y-m-d',strtotime ($_POST['date'])));
     $part = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['part']);
     $rev = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['rev']);
     $partdesc = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['partdesc']);
     $ncmrqty = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['ncmrqty']);
     $comp = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['comp']);
     $ncmrid = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['ncmrid']);
     $rma = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['rma']);
     $jno = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['jno']);
     $fdt = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['fdt']);
     $cof = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['cof']);
     $fab1= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['fab1']);
     $fab2= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['fab2']);
     $fab3= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['fab3']);
     $non= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['non']);
     $dis= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['dis']);
     $comm= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['comm']);
     $caad= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['caad']);
     $po= mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$_POST['po']);
     $pod = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,date('Y-m-d',strtotime($_POST['pod'])));
     $dri = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,date('Y-m-d',strtotime($_POST['dri'])));
    
     $output_form = 'no';
     if (empty($ab) || empty($date) || empty($part) || empty($partdesc)){
    
    // We know at least one of the input fields is blank 
    echo '<div id="alert">';
    echo 'Please fill out all of the required NCMR information.<br />';
     echo '</div>';
    
    }
     $output_form = 'yes';
    
    }
    
    //Access the Database
     if (!empty($ab) && !empty($date) && !empty($pod)) {
     $dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME)
     or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.');
    
     $query = "INSERT INTO ncmr (ab, date, part, rev, partdesc, ncmrqty, comp, ncmrid, rma, jno, fdt, cof, fab1, fab2, fab3, non, dis, comm, caad, po, pod, dri)
    
     VALUES ('$ab','$date','$part','$rev','$partdesc','$ncmrqty','$comp','$ncmrid','$rma','$jno','$fdt','$cof','$fab1','$fab2','$fab3','$non','$dis','$comm','$caad','$po','$pod','$dri')";
    
     $data = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die("MySQL error: " . mysqli_error($dbc) . "<hr>\nQuery: $query");
    
    
          // Confirm success with the user
     echo '<tr><td class="thank">';
     echo '<p>Thank you for adding the NCRM, the correct person will be informed.</p>';
     echo '<p><a href="post.php">&lt;&lt; Back to the form</a></p>';
     $output_form = 'no';
     echo '</td></tr>';
    
     mysqli_close($dbc);
    }
      if ($output_form == 'yes') {
    echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>";
     echo '<fieldset>';
     //Part, Rev, Part Description, NCMR Qty
     echo '<div id="box1">';
     echo '<div id="ab"><span class="b">Added By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="ab" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="date"><span class="b">Date Filed:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="date" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="part"><span class="b">Part Number:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="part" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="rev"><span class="b">Part Revision:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="rev" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="partdesc"><span class="b">Part Description:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><textarea name="partdesc" rows="3" cols="22" ></textarea></div>';
     echo '<div id="ncmrqty"><span class="b">NCMR Qty:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="ncmrqty" value="" /></div>';
     echo '</div>';
    
    
    //Company, Customer NCMR, Internal RMA, and Job Number
     echo '<div id="box2">';
     echo'<div id="comp">';
     echo '<span class="b">Company:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>';
     $mysqli->select_db('comp');
     $result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM comp"); 
     $i = 0;
     echo "<SELECT name='comp'>\n";
     while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
     if ($i == 4) echo '<option value="lines">-----</option>';
     echo "<option value='{$row['user_id']}'>{$row['name']}</option>\n";
     $i++;
     }
     echo "</select>\n";
     echo '</div>';
    
     echo '<div id="ncmrid"><span class="b">Customer NCMR ID:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="ncmrid" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="rma"><span class="b">Internal RMA #:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="rma" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="jno"><span class="b">Job #:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="jno" value="" /></div>';
     echo '</div>';
    
    
    //Type of Failure and Class of Failure
     echo '<div id="box3">';
     echo '<h2>Failure</h2>';
     echo '<div id="fdt">';
     echo '<span class="b">Failure Due To:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br />';
     echo '<select name="fdt">';
     echo '<option value="none">----None----</option>';
     echo '<option value="In House">In House</option>';
     echo '<option value="Third Party">Third Party</option>';
     echo '</select>';
     echo '</div>';
    
     echo'<div id="cof">';
     echo '<span class="b">Class of Failu &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br />';
     echo '<select name="cof">';
     echo '<option value="none">----None----</option>';
     echo '<option value="Materials">Materials</option>';
     echo '<option value="Fabrication">Fabrication</option>';
     echo '<option value="Drawing">Drawing</option>';
     echo '<option value="Assembly">Assembly</option>';
     echo '<option value="Testing">Testing</option>';
     echo '<option value="Electrical">Electrical</option>';
     echo '<option value="Programming">Programming</option>';
     echo '<option value="Machining">Machining</option>';
     echo '<option value="Inspection">Inspection</option>';
     echo '<option value="Purchasing">Purchasing</option>';
     echo '<option value="Administrator">Administrator</option>';
     echo '</select>';
     echo '</div>';
     echo '</div>';
    
     //Fabricators
     echo '<div id="box4">';
     echo '<h2>Fabricators</h2>';
     echo'<div id="fab1">';
     $mysqli->select_db('user');
     $result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM user"); 
     echo "<SELECT name='fab1'>\n";
     while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { 
     echo "<option value='{$row['user_id']}'>{$row['user']}</option>\n";}
     echo "</select>\n";
     echo '</div>';
    
     echo'<div id="fab2">';
     $mysqli->select_db('user');
     $result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM user"); 
     echo "<SELECT name='fab2'>\n";
     while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { 
     echo "<option value='{$row['user_id']}'>{$row['user']}</option>\n";}
     echo "</select>\n";
     echo '</div>';
    
     echo'<div id="fab3">';
     $mysqli = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
     $mysqli->select_db('user');
     $result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM user"); 
     echo "<SELECT name='fab3'>\n";
     while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { 
     echo "<option value='{$row['user_id']}'>{$row['user']}</option>\n";}
     echo "</select>\n";
     echo '</div>';
     echo '</div>';
    
      //Nonconformity, Disposition, Comments and Comments & Additional Details
                echo '<div id="box5">';
     echo '<div id="non"><span class="b">Nonconformity:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><textarea name="non" rows="3" cols="110" ></textarea><br /></div>';
     echo '<div id="dis"><span class="b">Disposition:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><textarea name="dis" rows="3" cols="110" ></textarea></div>';
     echo '<div id="comm"><span class="b">Comments:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><textarea name="comm" rows="3" cols="110" ></textarea></div>';
     echo '<div id="caad"><span class="b">Comments and/or Additional Details:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><textarea name="caad" rows="3" cols="110" ></textarea></div>';
     //PO, PO Date, and Date Recieved
                echo '<div id="podr">';
     echo '<div id="po"><span class="b">PO:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="po"  size="7" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="pod"><span class="b">PO Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="pod"  size="7" value="" /></div>';
     echo '<div id="dri"><span class="b">Date Received:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><input type="text" name="dri"  size="7" value=""';
     echo '</div>';
     echo '<div id="button"><input type="submit" value="Submit NCMR" name="submit" /></div>';
     echo '</div>';
     echo '</fieldset>';
    echo '</form>';
     }
    
    
    
    
    ?>
    </body>
    </html>

i'm doing a form that posts values to XML, and i don't know how.

can someone help me with a quick lesson in passing variables/XML data? i don't even know what question to ask, actually -

the XML format i've been given is:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lead>
    <innerNode></innerNode>
    <last_name>Smith</last_name>
    <first_name>John</first_name>
</lead>


and what i've come up with so far is this, but i don't even know if i'm on the right track:

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$last_name = $_REQUEST['l_name'];
$first_name = $_REQUEST['f_name'];


$url = "http://url.com/leads";

$post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lead>
    <innerNode></innerNode>
    <last_name>'.$last_name.'</last_name>
    <first_name>'.$first_name.'</first_name>
</lead>';


$header  = "POST HTTP/1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/xml \r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: ".strlen($post_string)." \r\n";
$header .= "Content-transfer-encoding: text \r\n";
$header .= "Connection: close \r\n\r\n";
$header = $post_string;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $header);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)) {
    print curl_error($ch);
} else {
echo "yay";
    curl_close($ch);
}

i'm being told "should return a response.xml with either a success or failure post status." which is confusing me

can someone help a bit?

thanks very much...

GN

Is there anyway to do this:

my form is posting to self, then checking login creds. if they are incorrect it spits out "invaild bla bla" but if they are correct send them to a different page?

here is the short version of what I have.

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

//check inputs vs db

if ($check) {
header("Location: http://". $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/include/process_renew.php");
} else { 
echo "<font color='red'>Username or Password did not match.</font> <br /><br />";
   }
}


}

I tested it using echo first and it worked fine then replaced the echo with header and now when I submit it just refreshes the page.

is this not possible?

might have it nevermind.

Hi guys,

I have a list box.

say the code is
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<select name="drop1" id="Select1" size="4" multiple="multiple">

    <option value="1">item 1</option>

    <option value="2">item 2</option>

    <option value="3">item 3</option>

    <option value="4">item 4</option>

    <option value="0">All</option>

</select>

The user will select few items.
How do i capture the data through the "POST" method.

Code: [Select]
$data = $_POST['drop'];
would not work coz there is an array if data.

Can any one help or point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

I've tried this:
<?php
$xsblock = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$url = "testchan";
$pos = strpos($xsblock, $url);
if ($pos == false) {
die();
} else {
echo "content content content content content content content content";
}
?>

How can I do this correctly?
Thanks in advance! 

can anyone help me as to whay I get this error: Problem with the query: INSERT INTO options (item_id, option ) VALUES('1', 'hi' )
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'option ) VALUES('1', 'hi' )' at line 1

with this code: Code: [Select]
foreach($_POST["user"] AS $key => $val) {
$user = $val;
$id1 = $_POST['id1'][$key];


$sql = "INSERT INTO options (item_id, option )





VALUES('$id1', '$user' )";
$rs = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Problem with the query: $sql <br />" . mysql_error());


} Code: [Select]
<input type="checkbox" name="yes" id="checkme" /><div id = "extra"> <div id="user"> Enter User Names:<br> <input type="text" name="user[]"/><br></div>
<div id="add_user" style="display: none;"><input type="text" name="user[]"/>

I have this code with clears the input box onclick...
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<input type="text" name="username" value="Username" onclick="value=''"/>

however is there any way to use php to get the value of username, before its posted?

that way i can make it so it only clears if the value of username is "username"

How can I post this variable $healspell when I already have an echo within a php?

Here's what I have:



echo '<p>You cast Nature\'s Cure (Recovered <?=$healspell?>)</p>';


It's not printing anything out at the moment, obviously, and if I just put $healspell, it just echos out: $healspell.

Thanks!

the code is in a form whose method = "post".
i have failed to echo $r_in. i eed help on this.

$lowest_time = 30 - 14;
$adder = 2*5*9;

echo   '<table width="526" border="0"><tr>
      <td width="169">
      <input type="text" name="$r_in" value="'.$lowest_time.'"  style="width:169px" readonly="readonly" class="text_non_color"/></td>
      <td width="169">
      <input type="text" name="$r_out" value="'.$adder.'"  style="width:169px" readonly="readonly" class="text_non_color"/></td>
      </tr></table>';

TWO questions:

I haven't actually CONNECTED and POSTED.  My form has two input fields that combine in a TOTAL field. I notice that the address bar is carrying TOTAL=input1+input2 when it TRIES to connect.  Do I need to include
the TOTAL field in the database if the info is NOT relavant data? the strg and chick TOTALS? 

Will the database accept PARTIAL data from a form that has 25 field with only 6 being populated for testing?

hello, i have a while loop that displays multiple tables of data depending on how many are in the database... i have a link if you click it will redirect to another page that prompts you to save an xls file with the table data... this was all working for me before when i had the while loop display rows of data in one table...well i decided that i would like the while loop to display a separate table each time... when i changed it... the xls file only shows one table of data... how can i set up so it will export all tables of data... is there some kind of loop i can set up for it to append the tables??

i have the table data all in a variable $table which i put into a hidden form field that redirects to the xls export page.... any help is appreciated...   

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Admin</title>



</head>

<body>

<?php





$sql= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM programs")
           or die (mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){

$table =

"<table border='1' width='600' style='border-collapse:collapse;'>" .
"<th colspan='4'>Programs</th>" .
"<tr>" .
"<td>ID</td>" . 
"<td>Views</td>" .
"<td>Enabled</td>" .

"</tr>";




$prog_titles = $row['titles'];


$prog_titles = explode(',' , $prog_titles);








$table .=

 "<tr>" .
 "<td>".$row['id']. "</td>" .
 "<td>".$row['views']. "</td>" .
 "<td>".$row['enabled']. "</td>" .  
 "<td></td>" .
 "</tr>" .







 "<tr>" .
 "<td>Title ID</td>" .
 "<td>Name</td>" .
 "<td>Description</td>" .
 "<td>Image</td>" .
 "</tr>" ;
 






foreach ( $prog_titles as $title ) {

$sql2= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM titles WHERE title = '$title' ");
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($sql2);


$table .=

 "<tr>" .
 "<td>" . $row2['id'] . "</td>" .
 "<td>" . $row2['title'] . "</td>" .
 "<td>" . $row2['description'] . "</td>" .
 "<td>". "<img width='50px' src='images/" . $row2['img'] . "'/></td>" .
 "</tr>" ;



} // close foreach

$table .=
 "</table>";
 
 
 
 echo $table;
 echo "<br /><br /><br />";
 
  
 
 
} // close while


 
?>

<br />
<br />

<FORM action="export.php">
<INPUT type="submit" value="Export to XLS"> 
<INPUT type="hidden" value="<?php print $table;?>" name="export">
</FORM>


</body>
</html>