PHP - Using Php To Create Dynamic Forms

Please help me with some guidance. I want to allow users to create their own html forms by choosing different form elements (textfields, textareas, lists, ratios, etc) I guess something similar to http://wufoo.com/ but much more basic. I'm having some trouble deciding which approach I should take. Database tables or files?

For tables I was thinking to create a table for each form element, e.g

TEXTFIELD TABLE
ID
TEXTFIELD_NAME
USER

TEXTAREA TABLE
ID
TEXTAREA_NAME
USER

etc for all form elements

and then just query all of them with..

WHERE user=$user

Or should I generate php files on the server for each form created?

Hey all,

This question is coming forth of another topic, but since that topic is not really about this issue, I posted this new topic.

Okay, so I made a table, and each row is generated with a WHILE loop.
In this while loop, there's also a form generated for each row/record, for updating them seperately.

I'm having trouble with naming those forms to process them seperately.
I could name them like name="form20110001", with the number being the record's id.
But since there can be gaps between id's, how can I retreive them efficiently?
And I want them to process all on a single process page, obviously.

How can I do this easily?
Can someone give me a concise example?
Would appreciate it a lot.
Thanks

I have a form that inserts information into a mysql, the only prolem is I need to add different surrounding html to the information when entering it into the database depending what the value is...(essentially I want to store font color around different levels)

How would I define the same variable with different information depending on the value?

The information is called using:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
$editLEVEL=$_POST['level'];


I want it so if 'Level1' is the posted value then $editLEVEL would be '<color=1>$editLEVEL</color>'
but if 'Level2' is the posted value the $editLEVEL would be '<color=2>$editLEVEL</color>'

If you dont understand just let me know I'll try explain best I can.

i'm trying to achive this results layout: 

example:
                     catagory
                           comment
                           comment
                           comment
                     catagory
                     catagory
                     catagory
                           comment

what is being pulled now is if their is 2 comments two 1 catagory then 2 catagorys are being returned with the same id. what i want is to return one cataogry with many comments.

thanks in advance for your help.

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<?php require_once('Connections/Del_Comments.php'); ?>
    <?php 
    $all_ids = array();
    $str_ids = "";
     
    // first parent query
    $maxRows_sourceType = 10;
    $pageNum_sourceType = 0;
    if (isset($_GET['pageNum_sourceType'])) {
      $pageNum_sourceType = $_GET['pageNum_sourceType'];
    }
    $startRow_sourceType = $pageNum_sourceType * $maxRows_sourceType;
     
    mysql_select_db($database_Del_Comments, $Del_Comments);
    $query_sourceType = "SELECT a.Id, a.Type, 
a.Dates, 
a.UIdFk, 
b.Id as Did, 
b.comment, 
b.dates as Day, 
b.sfk as Sfk ,
c.sfk as sfk1, 
d.Memo as memo
FROM 
asstatusupdate as a   
left join asstatusdata as b 
on a.id = b.sfk 
left join asmanystatusupdate as c
on b.sfk = c.sfk
left join ascomments as d
on d.id = c.cfk
where a.uidfk='1'
 order by Dates asc";
    $query_limit_sourceType = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_sourceType, $startRow_sourceType, $maxRows_sourceType);
    $sourceType = mysql_query($query_limit_sourceType, $Del_Comments) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_sourceType = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceType);
     
    if (isset($_GET['totalRows_sourceType'])) {
      $totalRows_sourceType = $_GET['totalRows_sourceType'];
    } else {
      $all_sourceType = mysql_query($query_sourceType);
      $totalRows_sourceType = mysql_num_rows($all_sourceType);
    }
    $totalPages_sourceType = ceil($totalRows_sourceType/$maxRows_sourceType)-1;
     
    // add the array
    while ($row_source = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceType)) {
     
        $all_ids[] = $row_source['Sfk'];
     
        $str_ids .= $row_source['Sfk'].',';
     
     }
     
            // remove the array
         $str_ids = (substr($str_ids,-1) == ',') ? substr($str_ids, 0, -1) : $str_ids;
    
echo $str_ids;
    //echo $all_ids;

//second child query
        $maxRows_sourceComments = 10;
    $pageNum_sourceComments = 0;
    if (isset($_GET['pageNum_sourceComments'])) {
      $pageNum_sourceComments = $_GET['pageNum_sourceComments'];
    }
    $startRow_sourceComments = $pageNum_sourceComments * $maxRows_sourceComments;
     
    mysql_select_db($database_Del_Comments, $Del_Comments);
    $query_sourceComments = "SELECT 
c.sfk as sfk1,
d.Memo as memo
FROM 
asmanystatusupdate as c
left join ascomments as d
on d.id = c.cfk
where c.uidfk0='1' and c.sfk in ($str_ids)";
    $query_limit_sourceComments = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_sourceComments, $startRow_sourceComments, $maxRows_sourceComments);
    $sourceComments = mysql_query($query_limit_sourceComments, $Del_Comments) or die(mysql_error());
    $row_sourceComments = mysql_fetch_assoc($sourceComments);
     
    if (isset($_GET['totalRows_sourceComments'])) {
      $totalRows_sourceComments = $_GET['totalRows_sourceComments'];
    } else {
      $all_sourceComments = mysql_query($query_sourceComments);
      $totalRows_sourceComments = mysql_num_rows($all_sourceComments);
    }
    $totalPages_sourceComments = ceil($totalRows_sourceComments/$maxRows_sourceComments)-1;
     
     
     
    $resultComments = @mysql_query($query_sourceComments, $Del_Comments);
    $numComments = @mysql_num_rows($resultComments);
     
     
    $result = @mysql_query($query_sourceType, $Del_Comments);
     
    $num = @mysql_num_rows($result);
     
    // column count for parent
        $thumbcols = 1;
     
            // column count for parent query
        $thumbrows = 1+ round($num / $thumbcols);
     
                // column count for child query    $thumbrowsComments = 1+ round($numComments/$thumbcols);
     
                // header
                print '<br />';
                print '<table align="center" width="500" border="3" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
     
                if (!empty($num)) {
                    print '<tr><td colspan="3" align="center"><strong>Returned Num of Record Sets: ' .$num. ' and comments count' .$numComments. '</strong></td></tr>';    
     
                }
     
        // table layout for parent query        

function display_table() {
     
    // global variables
    global $num, $result, $thumbrows, $thumbcols, $resultComments, $numComments, $thumbrowsComments ;
     
    // row count for parent
     for ($r=1; $r<=$thumbrows; $r++) {
     
         // print table row
             print '<tr>';
     
    //format the columns
    for ($c=1; $c<=$thumbcols; $c++) {
     
    print '<td align="center" valign="top">';
     
        $row = @mysql_fetch_array($result);
$row1 = @mysql_fetch_array($resultComments);
     
        $Id = $row['Id'];
        $Type = $row['Type'];
        $Dates = $row['Dates'];
$Comment = $row['Comment'];
$Sfk1 = $row['sfk1'];
$Memo = $row['memo'];


    // test if not empty show record sets            
        if (!empty($Id)) {
     
                                // print output from parent query
     
                       
                                        // grab type dates comment and format for there column
     
                                        echo '<td valign="top" align="center">'; 
                                        echo "$Type"; echo '&nbsp;&nbsp;'; echo "$Dates"; echo '<br />';echo '<br />';echo '<br />';
                                        echo "$Comment"; echo '</td>';
                                        echo '<td>'; echo "$Id"; echo '</td>';
                                        echo '<td>'; echo "$str_ids"; echo '</td>';

                             echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>'; echo "$Sfk1"; echo '</td>';
echo '<td>'; echo "$Memo"; echo '</td>';
echo '</tr>';

} // closing the $id loop
     


                                                    else {
                                                            print '&nbsp;&nbsp;';
                                                        }
                                print '</td>'; //closing the table data
                            } //closing the rows
                                print '</tr>';
                 } // closing the outter loop
                //} //closing fk id loop
                                print '</td>'; //closing the table data
                    } //closing the rows
                                print '</tr>';    
              
        //} // closing the main loop
     
                    // call the main table
                display_table() ;
                    print '</table>';
     
     
    ?>
     
     
     <?php
var_dump(substr('a', 1)); // bool(false)
?>

Hi guyz,

I am looking to create a dymanic comment box for my website where already logged in users can comment on webpages.

It is quite a challenge getting to dynamically display only the comments a particular user posted on a web page.

What I mean is I would like to be able to click on a page, see only the comments logged users posted on that page, and then post my own comment on that page. At the moment I created a comment box for my webpages but the issue is my posted comments on one particular page is displaying on all web pages with is comment system..This is the problem and it is very difficult to find helpful material hopefully you guyz can come to the rescue.

Please guys any help or suggestions are more than welcome.

Thanks

Kdiamonds