PHP - Sorting Mysql Results Using Values From An Array?

Hello Guys,

I have a question

I have the following query


$result3 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE ad_id='$id2'")
or die(mysql_error());  


$row3 = mysql_fetch_array( $result3 );

// Grab all the var
$features = $row3['features'];


I am turning it into an array (comma separated)


$feature2 = explode(",", $features);
print_r($feature2);
)

The result is like so


Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => 9 [2] => 13




I want to query the features for just the ids (F_name) are for the features . This query will show all.. I would like to just display the f_name values from the array query.


// build and execute the query
$sql = "SELECT * FROM features";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
 
// iterate through the results
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
  echo $row['f_name'];
  echo "<br />";
}



Please Advise..

Thanks, Dan

Hello there,   I'm really new at PHP and I've been reading several beginner tutorials so please accept my apologies for any stupid questions I may ask along the way.   I've gotten as far as installing XAMPP, set up a database plus PHP form and I'm struggling to figure out how to insert values from an array into my database.   I've learnt the code in one particular way (see beginner tutorials) so I was wondering if you could help me keeping this in mind. I know there'll be a million better ways to do what I'm doing but I fear I will be bamboozled with different code or differently structured code.   Anyway the tutuorials I'm reading don't see to cover how I can insert an array of values into my database, just singular values.   In the attached file, I have 10 rows of 2x text inputs (20 text inputs total). Each row allows the user to enter a CarID and CarTitle. I've commented out the jQuery which validates the inputs so I can build a rudimentary version of this validation with PHP.   I thought that because the line $sql="INSERT INTO carids_cartitles (CarID, CarTitle) VALUES ($id, $title)"; is inside the foreach, means that for each pair of values from the form it'd insert to the database.   It doesn't do this. If I enter two or more CarIDs and CarTitles, only one pair of values gets saved to the database.   I'm sorry if I haven't explained this well enough, any questions please let me know.   Many thanks for your help in advance. Attached Files  form.php   4.43KB   5 downloads

Hey there...

I'm so stuck on this problem I was hoping someone could help...

I need to query a MySQL Database using array values...

Here is my array ... $query_keywords = Array ( [7] => business [10] => home [11] => depo )
 
Here is my php ...$query = "SELECT * FROM product WHERE product_name, product_comment IN ($query_keywords)";
$result=mysql_query($query);

if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0)
{
   echo "results";
}
else
{
   echo "no results";
}


Unfortunately, I get this ...
Warning: mysql_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in blah\blah\results.php on line 99

Please help me
All comments greatly appreciated...

I am pulling 5 addresses and I am wanting to store these 5 addresses in columns in a separate table.  On the query string I put LIMIT 5.  How can I store the results of each of the 5 loops into columns in a separate table?  The columns are A1(for name), A2(for address), A3 (for city), A4 (for state), A5 (for zip), A6 (for phone), A7 (for miles),  .... then I also have B1-B7, C1-C7, D1-D7, and E1-E7.

I am basically wanting to store up to 5 addresses in an array and then update them into a mysql table.


Code: [Select]
foreach ($zips as $key => $value) {
 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT State FROM extreme WHERE Zip = '$key' AND Type='store' AND `InStore` <> 'NO' LIMIT 5", $db);
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

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


$Dealer=$myrow['Dealer'];
$Address=$myrow['Address'];
$City=$myrow['City'];
$State=$myrow['State'];
$Zip=$myrow['Zip'];
$Phone=$myrow['Phone'];
$Miles = $value;

 
 }
 
}

Hi all,

I have the following MySQL insert query:
Code: [Select]
$insert= mysql_query   ("INSERT INTO tablename (column1,`".$EXPfields."`) VALUES ('$something','".$EXPvalues."')");
where $EXPfields is an array of table-field-names and $EXPvalues is an array of table-field-values.

Now I want to write an equivalent query, but using UPDATE instead of INSERT INTO, but I don't want to write out all the field names/values separately, but again want to use $EXPfields and $EXPvalues.

So something like this:
Code: [Select]
$update = mysql_query ("UPDATE tablename
                     SET (column1,`".$EXPfields."`) = ('$something','".$EXPvalues."')
                     WHERE ....
                  ");

Is this possible? If so, what is the proper syntax? Thanks!

I have a page that I am using to search a database. Basically what I want to do is allow the end user to sort by column headings after the search results are returned. The sort code that I am using works fine on a "lesser complicated" page that does not involve $_GET variables. I am not sure however if I adapted it properly. Also, I am having problems adding the new $_GET variables to the URL string when the user chooses to sort the returned search results. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. My code is below:

Code: [Select]
<?php 
//////////////////// INITIATE SESSION ////////////////////
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
}
//////////////////// ALLOW ACCESS ONLY TO ADMINISTRATORS ////////////////////
if ($_SESSION['person_priveleges'] == 0) {
header("location:index.php");
}
//////////////////// CONNECT AND SELECT DATABASE ////////////////////
require_once('connect.php');
mysql_select_db($database, $connect);
//////////////////// GET STATES ////////////////////
$state = mysql_query("SELECT state_abbreviation FROM state ORDER BY state_abbreviation ASC", $connect);
$data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state);
$rows_state = mysql_num_rows($state);




//////////////////// GET USER SEARCH RESULTS ////////////////////
if (array_key_exists('search', $_GET)) {
$error = array();
if ((empty($_GET['last_name_search'])) && (empty($_GET['organization_search'])) && (empty($_GET['state_search'])) && (empty($_GET['payment_status']))) {
$error['search'] = "Please enter at least one search parameter.";
} else {
$search = "SELECT * FROM person";
$where = false;
if (isset($_GET['last_name_search']) && !empty($_GET['last_name_search'])) {
$last_name_search = $_GET['last_name_search'];
$search .= " WHERE person_last_name LIKE '%$last_name_search%'";
$where = true;
} 
if (isset($_GET['organization_search']) && !empty($_GET['organization_search'])) {
$organization_search = $_GET['organization_search'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_organization LIKE '%$organization_search%'";
}
if (isset($_GET['state_search']) && !empty($_GET['state_search'])) {
$state_search = $_GET['state_search'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_state LIKE '%$state_search%'";
}
if (isset($_GET['payment_status']) && !empty($_GET['payment_status'])) {
$payment_search = $_GET['payment_status'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_paid LIKE '%$payment_search%'";
}

if (isset($_GET['sort'])) {
$sort = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['sort']);
if (strcasecmp($sort, "DESC") == 0) {
$new_sort = "ASC";
} else {
$new_sort = "DESC";
}
} else {
$sort = "ASC";
$new_sort = "DESC";
}
if (isset($_GET['order'])) {
$order = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['order']);
$search .= " AND person_priveleges = 0 ORDER BY $order";

if (strcasecmp($sort, "DESC") == 0) {
$search .= " DESC";
} else {
$search .= " ASC";
}
} else {
$search .= " AND person_priveleges = 0 ORDER BY person_last_name";
$query_search = mysql_query($search, $connect) or die(mysql_error());
$result_search = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_search);
$number_search = mysql_num_rows($query_search);
$count = 0;
}
}
}
?>
<!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>2011 IDUES Project Directors Meeting</title>
<link href="layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body class="twoColFixLtHdr">
<br />

<!--container starts here-->
<div id="container">

<?php include('header.php'); ?>

<?php include('menu_admin.php'); ?>

<?php include('sidebar_admin.php'); ?>

<!--main content starts here-->
<div id="mainContent">
<h2 class="page_title">REGISTRANT SEARCH</h2>

<div align="center"><?php if (isset($error)) {
echo '<div align="center"><span class="contact_us_error">';
foreach ($error as $alert) {
echo "$alert<br />\n";
}
echo '</div></span>';
} ?></div>

<form id="search" name="search" method="get" action="">
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by Last Name:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><input type="text" name="last_name_search" id="last_name_search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by Organization:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><input type="text" name="organization_search" id="organization_search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by State:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><select name="state_search" id="state_search">
    <option value="">Select State</option>
<?php do { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']?>"
<?php if (isset($_POST['state']) && $_POST['state'] == $data_state['state_abbreviation']) {
echo 'selected="selected"';
}
echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']; ?>><?php echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']?></option>
<?php } while ($data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state));
$rows = mysql_num_rows($state);
if ($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($state, 0);
$data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state);
} ?>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td valign="top" class="black_font">Search by Payment Status:</td>
  <td class="black_font"><p>
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="Yes" id="payment_status_0" />
      Paid</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="Pending" id="payment_status_1" />
      Pending</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="No" id="payment_status_2" />
      Not Paid</label>
    <br />
  </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="search" id="search" value="Search" />
</form>

<br />

<?php if (array_key_exists('search', $_GET) && !$error) { ?>

<?php if ($number_search == 0) 
{ ?>
<div align="center" class="contact_us_error">No results match your search</div>
<span class="black_font">
<?php } else { ?>

<strong>Total Search Results: <?php echo $number_search; ?></strong>

<br />

</span>

<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font">&nbsp;</td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']."?order=person_last_name&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Name</a></strong></td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_organization&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Organization</a></strong></td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_state&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">State</a></strong></td>
    <td align="left" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><?php if ((isset($_GET['payment_status'])) && ($_GET['payment_status'] == 'Yes')) { ?> <a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_payment_method&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Payment</a></strong></td> <?php } else { echo "Paid</strong></td>"; } ?>
  </tr>
<tr>
<?php do { ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
<?php $person_id = $result_search['person_id']; ?>
<?php $first_name = $result_search['person_first_name']; ?>
<?php $last_name = $result_search['person_last_name']; ?>
<?php $organization = stripslashes($result_search['person_organization']); ?>
<?php $state = $result_search['person_state']; ?>
<?php $paid = $result_search['person_paid']; ?>
<?php $payment_method = $result_search['person_payment_method']; ?>
<td class="black_font"><?php echo $count; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo "<a href='registrant_info.php?id=$person_id'>$last_name, $first_name</a>"; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo stripslashes($organization); ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo $state; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php if ($paid =='Yes') { echo $payment_method; } else { echo $paid; } ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } while ($result_search = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_search)); ?>
</table>

<span class="black_font">
<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
<!--main content ends here-->

<!--clearing element should immediately follow #mainContent div to force the #container div to contain all child floats-->
<br class="clearfloat" />

<?php include('footer.php'); ?>

</div>
<!--container ends here-->

</body>
</html>

hey guys here is my query Code: [Select]
$sql1 = "SELECT buss_name,buss_desc,buss_video,buss_link,city,zipcode,country,address,tag FROM wp_business  WHERE lat BETWEEN $lat - $lat_range AND $lat + $lat_range AND lon BETWEEN $lon - $lon_range AND $lon + $lon_range AND Comp_name ='".$_GET['category']."' order by lat,lon desc LIMIT 0 , 7 ";
the query is supposed to do the following
1)find the nearest city from the database the query does that but when im printing the div i am unable to sort the results based on the nearest to the city searched. I have tried orderby and all that stuff but in vain

Thanks

Greetings!

I would like to ask for you help sorting a couple of lists that are autogenerated with php.
The page reads a content of a folder and makes a menu from the names. The folder names a a, b, c, d... etc.

The other part reads the content of the selected folder and displays the files.

My problem is, that on windows, using xampp, the both the folders and files appear in alphabetic order (what I want), but on the linux server they get completely messed up.
Instead of a, b, its o, a, d, etc.
I tried using the sort() function but there is no array to sort...

Thank you for any suggestions and help!
Inka

ps. the server has php 4.3.9... does this matter? could help if we upgrade to 5.3?

here is the code:
Code: [Select]
<?php     
     $dh  = opendir($dir);

     while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {

       $files[] = $filename;

        if ($filename != "." && $filename != "..")
                     {    
        if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == "index.php?l=" . $filename . '&sec=' . $sec){
                     echo '<td><img src="imagini/arow.gif"></td><td style="text-align: left;">' . strtoupper($filename) . $space;
                     } else {    

            echo '<td style="text-align: left;"><a href="index.php?l='. $filename . '&sec=' . $sec . '">' . strtoupper($filename) . $space;                }}}

?>

<?php

    $letter = "a";

    if(isset($_GET["l"])){

    $letter = $_GET["l"];} 

    $letter = $dir . $letter;

 if ($handle = opendir($letter)) {

   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))

      {

          if ($file != "." && $file != "..")

      {

     $filename = $file;
     $file2 = substr($filename, 0, -4);
     $thelist .= '<tr><td style="width: 250px; text-align: left;"><a href="'. $letter . '/'. $file.'">'.$file2.'</a></td></tr>';

          }
       }
  closedir($handle);
  }
?>
<p><?php echo $thelist; ?></p>

Hi there,

I am working on a PHP web form and I have a combo box and I'm trying to sort the values in it.

The values in the combo box are filled using an arraylist:

$WeightArray = array('' => '',
    '0|100' => '100g or Less',
    '101|250' => '101g to 250g', 
    '251|500' => '251g to 500g',
    '501|1000' => '501g to 1kg',
    '1000|2000' => '1kg to 2kg',
    '2000|3000' => '2kg to 3kg',
    '3000|4000' => '3kg to 4kg',
    '4000|5000' => '4kg to 5kg',
    '5000|6000' => '5kg to 6kg',
    '6000|7000' => '6kg to 7kg',
    '7000|8000' => '7kg to 8kg', 
    '8000|9000' => '8kg to 9kg',  
    '9000|10000' => '9kg to 10kg',
    'customValues' => 'Custom Values'
    );

The values get properly filled in the combo box. Thats fine. Its just that the values are not sorted the way I want them to. The Grams and Kilograms are all mixed. It should output in the order defined in the array.

See the ScreenShot I've taken and see the difference in the values defined and the output.

I tried few sorting methods like

ksort($WeightArray);
But still the same output.

Whats the good trick to sort values in Combo as per the array.

All comments and feedback are always welcomed.

Thank you.

The following code works, but I need to take it a step further and I'm not sure how. What I'd like to do is sort the output so the highest point totals get printed first (along with the associated information). Can anyone help?

Here's the site:

http://www.beat-the-spread.net/seasontotals.php


Here's the code:
Code: [Select]
$i=1;
$w=1;
$result = mysql_query( "
SELECT team_name, owner
FROM teams" );
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>\n",
"</td><td>",
$row['owner'],
"</td><td>",
$row['team_name'];

$result1 = mysql_query( "
SELECT bye, owner_pts
FROM schedule
WHERE team = $i");
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result1);

while ($row1 = mysql_fetch_array($result1))
{

$totalpts = $totalpts + $row1['owner_pts'];

if (empty($row1['bye']))
{
echo "</td><td>", $row1['owner_pts'], "</tr>\n";
}
else
{
echo "</td><td>","0","</tr>\n";
}

}

while ($num_rows<=16)
{
echo "</td><td>","","</tr>";
$num_rows++;
}

echo "</td><td>","$totalpts","</tr>";
$totalpts=0;
$w++;
$i++;
}

echo "</table>\n";

mysql_close($con);


Thanks!

How to sort PHP2d Array using upon key.  eg.
I have a array of
$users[0]['name'] = "abc"
$users[0]['age'] = "12"
$users[0]['sex'] = "M";

$users[1]['name'] = "xyz"
$users[1]['age'] = "15"
$users[1]['sex'] = "M";

$users[2]['name'] = "pqr"
$users[2]['age'] = "16"
$users[2]['sex'] = "F";

Now I have to sort in on age or 'sex',

Hi - I'm modifying some PHP code that someone else wrote. Below is a snippet of code that basically takes mp3 files files within all the folders in a directory, and creates an RSS feed. In the resulting feed, the files are intermingled in date order.

Instead, I'd like them sorted by the directory that they are in. So, if there are files in these directories:

01-First
02-Second
03-Third

I'd like all the files in the "01-First" directory to come before the "02-Second" directory and so on. Within each directory the files can be sorted as they currently are.  The name of the directory in the code is signified by $dir_name.

I tried sort() and array_multisort() but I couldn't get either of them to work the way I wanted.  Any thoughts?


if ($url_params['mode'] == 'rss2') {

print getRSSHeader('UTF-8', $device, $vm_config, $vm_name, $web_master, $logo_image,$context);
    $mailboxes = array();
if ($dev_dir = @opendir($VMHome . $device)) { //might fail if mailbox has not received first message yet
while ($f = readdir($dev_dir)) {
     if (!eregi("tmp","$f") && !eregi("\.+","$f") && !eregi("Exclude-From-CD", "$f")) { //skip tmp directory and Exclude-From-CD Directories   
     array_push($mailboxes,"$f"); #collect all existing mailboxes
     }
  }
     array_multisort($mailboxes, SORT_DESC);
foreach ($mailboxes as $mailbox) {
$files=array();
$dir_name = $VMHome . $device . '/'. $mailbox .'/'; 
$dir = opendir($dir_name);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
  if (eregi("\.txt",$f)){ #if filename matches .txt in the name
     array_push($files,"$f"); #push into $files array
  }
}
foreach($files as $file){
   $props = getProperties($dir_name, $file);
   $uid = getMP3File($dir_name, $file, $props, $device, $mailbox, $vm_config, $vm_name,$context);
   print getRSSItem ($props, $uid, $dir_name, $device, '/' . $mailbox . '/', $context);      
}
}
}
print  '
</channel>
</rss>';
}

I have the following php array structure and couldnot able to sort it according to the overall points. My code is reading an xml file using simplexml. Any help would be appreciated.

Array
(
    => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [played] => 0
            [won] => 0
            [drawn] => 0
            [lost] => 0
            [overallpoints] => 0
        )

    [1] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [played] => 6
            [won] => 3
            [drawn] => 0
            [lost] => 3
            [overallpoints] => 9
        )

    [2] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [played] => 3
            [won] => 1
            [drawn] => 0
            [lost] => 2
            [overallpoints] => 3
        )

    [3] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [played] => 0
            [won] => 0
            [drawn] => 0
            [lost] => 0
            [overallpoints] => 0
        )

    [4] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [played] => 2
            [won] => 1
            [drawn] => 0
            [lost] => 1
            [overallpoints] => 3
        )
}

I have an array that looks like this...

Code: [Select]
Array (
    [0] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => Dylan Cross )
    [1] => Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => Bob Smith )
    [2] => Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => Sarah Park )
    [3] => Array ( [0] => 7 [1] => Jane Knowles )
    [4] => Array ( [0] => 6 [1] => Harry Hill )
    [5] => Array ( [0] => 3 [1] => Jack Rock )
)

How do I sort this array so it is ordered alphabetically by the names so the result will be...

Code: [Select]
Array (
    [0] => Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => Bob Smith )
    [1] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => Dylan Cross )
    [2] => Array ( [0] => 6 [1] => Harry Hill )
    [3] => Array ( [0] => 3 [1] => Jack Rock )
    [4] => Array ( [0] => 7 [1] => Jane Knowles )
    [5] => Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => Sarah Park )
)

Thanks

Hello, i need some help with sorting arrays by it's value. lets say i want to have two different html tables listing the employees and another for the managers, then i want to sort them by Group ID's:

Etc: Workers as the key / 1 as the value.

Groups:
Workers => 1
Managers => 2

Workers Group ID John 1 Peter 1 Lance 1
Managers Group ID Carol 2 Greg 2 Brian 2
How can i do this?