PHP - Generating A Numbered List From A Database

I need a way to generate a random number and insert into a database, and I need the database to not contain any duplicates of that number. I basically need to generate a RMA # (Return Merchandise Authorization Number), so the numbers absolutely CAN NOT be duplicate. I have no ideas how to go about this.

Should I generate a random number, search the database and see if there's a duplicate, and if there is re-run the script?

I have an SQL query:
SELECT username, dl_sumtotal
FROM `vb_user`
ORDER BY dl_sumtotal DESC
LIMIT 0 , 30
Right now, its results display like this:

username3: 500
username1: 400
username2: 300

How can I give these results a numbered column so it displays like this:


1: username3: 500
2: username1: 400
3: username2: 300

I would like to output that number in my PHP script. thanks for any help.

Hi all, this is my first post on this site.  I've built a few amateur sites in the past but am keen to utilize php combined with mysql for my current project.  However, I have little knowledge of php and am just picking it up as I go (same way I've done for all my computer knowledge)

What I'm looking for may sound simple, but I really don't know where to start and I'm hoping there are some kind souls here that will lend a hand.

SQL Database
Name Score
John 42
Peter 46
Michael 56
Angela 46
(many rows like this)

I am looking to output on my page a table of the top ten scores like this.  However it's not quite that simple, should there be a tie on any score I want it to appear like so:
1. Michael 56
2. Angela 46
    Peter 46
4. John 42
(onwards to 10)

I want this to run from positions 1 thru 10, but should the 10th score in the database be equal to the 11th (12th, 13th etc) I would like them displayed too.  For example:
9. Rafael 31
10. Sandy 29
      Bernard 29
      Jackie 29


Is this possible or would I be better off just sorting the info in excel and hard coding the info everytime?


Hope somebody can help.

Thanks in advance.

Hi

I have been given a task to create some SQL reports.

One of the reports is to display all the customers who have purchased a certain product based on user selection and then have those results able to be extracted to a mailing list.

So ive got the report done. Some drop down boxes allow a user to select a product and once submitted the results are then displayed.

But i dont even know where to begin with extracting those results to a mailing list. Could someone help me please? What method should I use? and where do i begin? BTW im a rookie with PHP/Mysql ive just got my first job since leaving university and this is a task ive been given at work so any quick and helpful replies are greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance.

Hi there i have a big issues which is starting to cause me lots of stress. I have two tables one which is products and contains the following below and the other which is additionalCategories which the contains is also below.

products

    id                    
    name                                
    image1                         
    image2                            
    image3                            
    image4                         
    image5                            
    description                         
    department                            
    category                            
    subcategory                         
    Price

additonalCategories

         id                     
    departmentID                         
    categoryID                         
    subcategoryID                           
    productID

i have made a products upload script to my site where i can add products too it saves the category and subcategory id's in the fields above then if i wish to add the product to additional categories i do so and again this adds all the data to the addiotnalCategories table.

however i can seems to be able to display this on the view products page i tried the below code but get no luck

Code: [Select]
<?php
session_start();
$username=$_SESSION['username'];
include_once"../includes/db_connect.php";
$cat=$_GET['cat'];
?>
<!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>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php 
$query("SELECT products.name AS name, products.price AS price, addtionalCategories.productID AS productID FROM products, addtionalCategories WHERE category='$cat' AND products.id = addtionalCategories.productID");
while($fetch=mysql_fetch_object($query)){
echo"$fetch->name";
}
?>
</body>
</html>

i need a way in which on the page it check the category id then finds all the products that are saved in the additionalCategories table then to find the data saved in the products table such as the name and price etc

please any help will be appreciated thank you for reading
 

Hello,
I've created a page search to return results from my database inventory. On top of these results I would like to display a seperate list of five products not included in the search results but share the same sub_category_b (a column in my SQL table).

Posted below is my primary query of the database. If anyone can help me out with this it would be appreciated.
 
Code: [Select]
$colname_product = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['title'])) {
  $colname_product = $_GET['title'];
}
mysql_select_db($database_inventory, $inventory);
$query_product = sprintf("SELECT * FROM inventory WHERE item_name LIKE %s OR item_desc LIKE %s  ", GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname_product . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname_product . "%", "text"));
$product = mysql_query($query_product, $inventory) or die(mysql_error());
$row_product = mysql_fetch_assoc($product);

I've fooled around with this one for some time and haven't come up with a clear cut answer. Thank you in advance!

Hi all,
i want my list/menu field values to come from my database. how can i accomplish that?
thanks

i did
Code: [Select]
<select name="select">
                  <option value="0">--select below--</option>
  <option value="1">Me</option>
  <?php
  
                  require_once '../konnect/konex.php';

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM is_clients");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<option value ='2'>".$row"['name']</option>";
  echo "<br />";
  }

?>
                  </select>

yes how?

 

if you don't understand what do i mean, look on the textarea input, when i type some data in list format they are going to be saved in single column but  i cant retrieve them as list but a single paragraph. why?

I am new to PHP and currently trying to develop a website... i am stuck at one place.
Lets say i'm a user(mrX) that has 4 types of car that are Ferrari, Lamborghini, Evo and BMW. So, i will register to the system about my details and all of my car info such as their cc, transmission, plat number, engine capacity. Then, i will log on into the system and after log on, there will be a drop down list. If i pick Ferrari for example, under the drop down list there will be all the information about the car. The same on the other car also.

Hi pals,
I got a complex Array from the Query. it's Structure is like

Quote

Array
(
    => Array
        (
            [server_name] => anes.admod.net
            [id] => 1
            [server_id] => 1
            [description] => nice Anes Server
            [status] => 0
            [max_down_count] => 9
            [check_interval] => 15
            [fail_recheck] => 6
            [log_retain] => 1
            [warning] => 12
            [critical] => 15
            [timeout] => 8
            [audible] => Y
            [email] => Y
            [im] => Y
            [sms] => Y
            [rss] => N
            [rssid] =>
            [vcare] => Y
            [created] => 2010-12-06 10:26:26
            [last_update] => 2010-12-13 16:41:48
            [name] => POP3
            [port] => 110
            [okay] => OK
            [warn] => WARNING
            [crit] => CRITICAL
            [down] => Connection refused
            [advanced] => N
            [typestatus] => 1
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [server_name] => neseema.admod.net
            [id] => 2
            [server_id] => 2
            [description] => another server
            [status] => 1
            [max_down_count] => 11
            [check_interval] => 15
            [fail_recheck] => 12
            [log_retain] => 2
            [warning] => 12
            [critical] => 16
            [timeout] => 6
            [audible] => Y
            [email] => Y
            [im] => Y
            [sms] => N
            [rss] => N
            [rssid] =>
            [vcare] => N
            [created] => 2010-12-07 10:27:42
            [last_update] => 2010-12-13 16:41:48
            [name] => Cpanel
            [port] => 2082
            [okay] => OK
            [warn] => WARNING
            [crit] => CRITICAL
            [down] => Connection refused
            [advanced] => N
            [typestatus] => 1
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [server_name] => anes.admod.net
            [id] => 3
            [server_id] => 1
            [description] => nice Anes Server another Service
            [status] => 1
            [max_down_count] => 14
            [check_interval] => 15
            [fail_recheck] => 3
            [log_retain] => 3
            [warning] => 12
            [critical] => 16
            [timeout] => 18
            [audible] => Y
            [email] =>
            [im] =>
            [sms] =>
            [rss] => N
            [rssid] =>
            [vcare] => N
            [created] => 2010-12-07 12:58:01
            [last_update] => 2010-12-13 16:41:48
            [name] => SMTP
            [port] => 25
            [okay] => OK
            [warn] => WARNING
            [crit] => CRITICAL
            [down] => Connection refused
            [advanced] => N
            [typestatus] => 1
        )

)


In this Result I have 2 Rows in result to show, I mean I need to merge the data of First (0th) and Third(2nd) element because it display the
data of same item. So How it can done, I am working in that whole day but not get a solution fully.... I saw a near solution like :


<?php
 
$input = array(
 
                0 => array ( 'id' => 160, 'payment_period' => 'Monthly', 'plan_payment_type_id' => 171, 'payment_type_id' => 4), 
                1 => Array ( 'id' => 160, 'payment_period' => 'Monthly', 'plan_payment_type_id' => 172, 'payment_type_id' => 5), 
                2 => Array ( 'id' => 161, 'payment_period' => 'Weekly', 'plan_payment_type_id' => 173, 'payment_type_id' => 9), 
                );  

echo "<pre>"; 
print_r($input);
echo "</pre>";  
echo "****************************************************************************";
$output = array();
$id_array = array();
$i = 0;
foreach($input as $key=>$val) {
        if(array_key_exists($val['id'],$id_array)) {
                $pos = $id_array[$val['id']];
                $output[$pos]['payment_types'][] = array('plan_payment_type_id'=> $val['plan_payment_type_id'],'payment_type_id' => $val['payment_type_id']);
        } else {
                $output[$i] = array('id' => $val['id'],'payment_period' => $val['payment_period'],'payment_types' => array(array('plan_payment_type_id'=> $val['plan_payment_type_id'],'payment_type_id' => $val['payment_type_id'])));
                $id_array[$val['id']] = $i; 
                $i++;
        }   
}
echo "<pre>"; 
print_r($output);
echo "</pre>";  
?>




But I cannot handle it nicely, please give any sample or helping code idea for same , waiting your immediate Reply

Thankfully
Anes P.A 

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...")

could anyone please help me with the code which is i have already displayed data as a multi select list but now i need to select one or more from them and insert into another database table. would be appreciate your help. thanx

Hi i have a drop down menu for date which is meant to insert all 3 values into a date column bt is only sending the year how can i fix it

<select name="date_of_birth">

    <option value="1">January

    <option value="2">February

    <option value="3">March

    <option value="4">April

    <option value="5">May

    <option value="6">June

    <option value="7">July

    <option value="8">August

    <option value="9">September

    <option value="10">October

    <option value="11">November

    <option value="12">December

</select>

<select name="date_of_birth">

    <option value="1">1

    <option value="2">2

    <option value="3">3

    <option value="4">4

    <option value="5">5

    <option value="6">6

    <option value="7">7

    <option value="8">8

    <option value="9">9

    <option value="10">10

    <option value="11">11

    <option value="12">12

    <option value="13">13

    <option value="14">14

    <option value="15">15

    <option value="16">16

    <option value="17">17

    <option value="18">18

    <option value="19">19

    <option value="20">20

    <option value="21">21

    <option value="22">22

    <option value="23">23

    <option value="24">24

    <option value="25">25

    <option value="26">26

    <option value="27">27

    <option value="28">28

    <option value="29">29

    <option value="30">30

    <option value="31">31

</select>

<select name="date_of_birth" id="year">

<?php

$year = date("Y");

for($i=$year;$i>$year-50;$i--)

{

if($year == $i)

echo "<option value='$i' selected>Current Year</option>";

else

echo "<option value='$i'>$i</option>";

}

?>

I am very new new php (wrote my first PHP script 5 Days ago) and am trying to give myself a crash course but I have hit a pit-stop which is killing me a little!

I hope that title makes sense.... Basically I created PHP script to take data from a database and display in, I then wrote some code to use a drop down menu to order that data. That all worked ok until I tried to utilise some pagination. I can make the pagination work, and I can make the ordering work, but not at the same time! At the moment the code that I have will allow me to order the list and almost paginate it. There are 40 results and I want to display 10 at a time. When not using the ordering code I can paginate it perfectly but when I try to intergrate the two bits of code it will only display the first 10 results and not give me an option to go to the next page to see the rest!

The code:

if (!isset($_GET['start'])) {

$_GET['start'] = 0; }

$per_page = 10; $start = $_GET['start'];
if (!$start)
   $start = 0;
 
 
 
$sort = @$_POST['order'];   
if (!empty($sort)) {   
$get = mysql_query("SELECT bookname, bookauthor, bookpub, bookisbn
            FROM booktable
            ORDER BY ".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['order'])." ASC
            LIMIT $start, $per_page");
}
 else { 
$get = mysql_query("SELECT bookname, bookauthor, bookpub, bookisbn 
                FROM booktable 
                ORDER BY bookname ASC
                LIMIT $start, $per_page"); 
}
 
$record_count = mysql_num_rows($get);
 
 
?>
<?php
if (isset($_GET['showerror']))
$errorcode = $_GET['showerror'];
else
$errorcode = 0;
?>

 wont include all the html rubbish and the ordering menu!
<div id="mid">
 
<?php
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>";
 
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Title";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Author";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Publisher";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book ISBN";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
 
echo "</th>";
echo "</tr>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($get))
{
 // get data
 $bookname = $row['bookname'];
 $bookauthor = $row['bookauthor'];
 $bookpub = $row['bookpub'];
 $bookisbn = $row['bookisbn'];
 
 
 
    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td>";
    echo "<a href='addtolist.php?bookname=".$bookname."&bookauthor=".$bookauthor."&bookpub=".$bookpub."&bookisbn=".$bookisbn."'>Add to basket</a>";
 
    echo "</td>";
 
    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookname;
    echo "</td>";
 
    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookauthor;
    echo "</td>";
 
    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookpub;
    echo "</td>";
 
    echo "<td>";
    echo $bookisbn;
    echo "</td>";
 
    echo "</tr>";
 
 
}
 
echo "</table>";
 
$prev = $start - $per_page;
$next = $start + $per_page;
 
if (!($start<=0))
       echo "<a href='products.php?start=$prev'>Prev</a> ";
 
       //set variable for first page number
$i=1;
 
//show page numbers
for ($x = 0; $x < $record_count; $x = $x + $per_page)
{
 if ($start != $x)
    echo "<a class='pagin' href='products.php?start=$x'> $i </a>";
 else
    echo "<a class='pagin' href='products.php?start=$x'><b> $i </b></a>";
 $i++;
}
 
//show next button
if (!($start >= $record_count - $per_page))
       echo "<a class='pagin' href='products.php?start=$next'> Next </a>";
?>


Thank you so much for reading!

hey guys, I am having a small problem and I can't wrap my head around it.
I want users to be able to upload up 10 photos in the database and what I want to do
is check the database to see how many pics they have already and if they have
10, just show the photo with action items but if they have 7 for example,  show the
7 pictures and three upload fields, if they have 4, show the pics and 6 fields and so on...

let me know what you guys think and some help.
Thanks in advance guys, you always come through...