PHP - How Do I Populate A Database From A Number Grid In Mysql?
I don't want to use AI, or a primary key to sort the data, as it could create some problems if the items are visited out of order, but I want to sort it always based upon a single element for speed.
I'm creating a table that will be populated (built), when it's corresponding entry doesn't exist, how do I get it sorted out if someone visits 2, then 7 before they visit 5 to read what's there? It's not a 2d number line, but a 3d number grid.
Edited by Q695, 09 September 2014 - 11:30 PM. Similar TutorialsThis might be a bit hard to explain! I have a grid, 32x32 which is actually 1024 mySQL rows in a table, you can see the table he http://interbitlotto.com/grid each cell is a row in the database, top left is ID 1, bottom right is id 1024. get it? right well its a battle ship game, and im stuck on the automatic battle ship placement script. I have displayed the generated boats as misses so we can see them. The problem i am having, is that the random number generater chooses a cell too close to the side so the boat ends up wrapping to the other side. I cant think of a way to detect if its going to wrap, if it is then choose another cell... The code below chooses the orientation of the boat, then chooses a random cell... but as you can see, no code for "across" to stop it choosing one too close to the side. Any ideas? Code: [Select] $orientation = rand(1,2); //get random orientation - 1 = down, 2 = across. if ($orientation == 1){ $multiply = 32; //cells till next row $max = 1024 - (32 * $boatlength); //prevents it from choosing a cell too close to the bottom $startcell = rand(1,$max); }else{ $multiply = 1; //across, so next cell $max = 1024; $startcell = rand(1,$max); } Hi guys. I'm trying to build a games site for a friend. Currently, the front-end (HTML/CSS) of the site is done. Now, I want to make a way for him to easily add games to the site. Ideally, I'd like to make a database with the following columns: ID, Name, Category, Link, Thumbnail_Link. So, those would be the ID, name of the game, the category, a link to the game, and a link to the 50x50 thumbnail image respectively. Then, using PHP, I'd like to call the first x number (not sure what it will be yet, let's say 50) and make format it as a grid in the following way: There's the thumbnail image followed by the game name, and they're all a clickable link to the game URL. Is this possible? How would I go about doing this? I've already set up a database for a login module to the site, so each page has already opened a connection to the MySQL database. However, I've only ever done basic PHP for mail forms and am otherwise extremely new to it, and am especially new to MySQL. Could anyone walk me through how to do this or even give me a quick example script to work off of? Thanks, any of your time is greatly appreciated! Hey folks! I am looking to build a small adventure game in PHP and the key to this will be a 3x3 (or possibly bigger) grids of squares, with the user situated in the centre. I therefore need to be able to figure out the co-ords of the surrounding squares. Presumably I will need to define the size of the master grid, then using the co-ords of the current square (defined from a database containing the users location), calculate the co-ords for the surrounding 8 grid squares. Has anyone had any experience with this? Where should I start? (Maths isn't my strong point tbh, but I can pick things up quickly) Thanks in advance! EDIT - in case it wasn't too clear, the "world map" would be something like 1000x1000 squares, but the player can only see the 3x3 grid at there location. I have a set of 26 checkboxes that are stored in an array. The below code dumps the comma separated array values into a single record column. Code: [Select] // dumping the type of job checkboxes $type = $_POST['type']; var_dump($type); // Setting up a blank variable to be used in the coming loop. $allStyles = ""; // For every checkbox value sent to the form. foreach ($type as $style) { // Append the string with the current array element, and then add a comma and a space at the end. $allTypes .= $style . ", "; } // Delete the last two characters from the string. $allTypes = substr($allTypes, 0, -2); // end dumping the type of job checkboxes This works great! But my needs go past this. The record can be edited. So I need to get the values back out of the database and populate the correct check boxes for editing. The checkboxes are generated by this code. Code: [Select] <div class="text">Job Type (<a class="editlist" href="javascript:editlist('listedit.php?edit=typelist',700,400);">edit list</a>):</div> <div class="field"> <?PHP $connection=mysql_connect ("localhost", "name", "pass") or die ("I cannot connect to the database."); $db=mysql_select_db ("database", $connection) or die (mysql_error()); $query = "SELECT type FROM typelist ORDER BY type ASC"; $sql_result = mysql_query($query, $connection) or die (mysql_error()); $i=1; echo '<table valign="top"><tr><td>'; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) { $type = $row["type"]; if ($i > 1 && $i % 26 == 0) echo '</td><td>'; else if ($i) echo ''; ++$i; echo "<input style='font-size:10px;' name='type[]' type='checkbox' value='$type'><span style='color:#000;'>$type</span></input><br/>"; } echo '</td></tr></table>'; ?> </div> I am having a problem getting these checkboxes repopulated. I think that a way to do this is to: Get the values out of the database in a array Compare the values the list of all possible values. Check the boxes of the values confirmed to be there. I didn't build the application so I need help to work through this problem. This topic has been moved to HTML Help. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=327455.0 Hey Guys I have the following table: (login) I need that table to be echoed he But it needs to filter it for the school they are logged in as. Help: When they login they have to select what school they are at so you can use that code. example: PHS = Poole High School Hi Good day Can someone pls help me regarding with this matter. I have a page for inserting records. And I have a combobox that is fetched through the specific field in database. I also have a table of records, for each row i have an href edit which throws the values to its respective texbox and combobox. THE PROBLEM is that when i click the href edit, the value from a selected row was not displayed from the combobox This topic has been moved to Ajax Help. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=351349.0 original sql Code: [Select] -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `countries` -- CREATE TABLE `countries` ( `id` int(6) NOT NULL auto_increment, `value` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=243 ; -- -- Dumping data for table `countries` -- INSERT INTO `countries` VALUES (1, 'Vancouver'); New Sql Code: [Select] -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `countries` -- CREATE TABLE `countries` ( `id` int(6) NOT NULL auto_increment, `value` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '', `code` varchar(12) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=243 ; -- -- Dumping data for table `countries` -- INSERT INTO `countries` VALUES (1, 'Vancouver', 'BC-50'); PHP code for the job Code: [Select] <?php // PHP5 Implementation - uses MySQLi. // mysqli('localhost', 'yourUsername', 'yourPassword', 'yourDatabase'); $db = new mysqli('localhost', 'root' ,'password', 'weather'); if(!$db) { // Show error if we cannot connect. echo 'ERROR: Could not connect to the database.'; } else { // Is there a posted query string? if(isset($_POST['queryString'])) { $queryString = $db->real_escape_string($_POST['queryString']); // Is the string length greater than 0? if(strlen($queryString) >0) { // Run the query: We use LIKE '$queryString%' // The percentage sign is a wild-card, in my example of countries it works like this... // $queryString = 'Uni'; // Returned data = 'United States, United Kindom'; // YOU NEED TO ALTER THE QUERY TO MATCH YOUR DATABASE. // eg: SELECT yourColumnName FROM yourTable WHERE yourColumnName LIKE '$queryString%' LIMIT 10 $query = $db->query("SELECT your_column FROM your_db_table WHERE your_column LIKE '$queryString%' LIMIT 10"); if($query) { // While there are results loop through them - fetching an Object (i like PHP5 btw!). while ($result = $query ->fetch_object()) { // Format the results, im using <li> for the list, you can change it. // The onClick function fills the textbox with the result. // YOU MUST CHANGE: $result->value to $result->your_colum echo '<li onClick="fill(\''.$result->value.'\');">'.$result->value.'</li>'; } } else { echo 'ERROR: There was a problem with the query.'; } } else { // Dont do anything. } // There is a queryString. } else { echo 'There should be no direct access to this script!'; } } ?> What the original code does 1) you start typing your city (eg. Van) 2) when you type the first letter (eg. V), it looks into mysql and auto fills a dropdown menu with all possible cities What i need it to do 1) you start typing your city (eg. Van) 2) when you type the first letter (eg. V), it looks into mysql and auto fills a dropdown menu with all possible cities 3) when you find your city you click it or press enter, and it POST's the city code as well now how do i munipulate the script to do that... another thing, when i put the extra sql entry in "code", the auto fill stopped working, why? Thanks Hi everyone. I have a combo box which lists usernames and onchange, the username value is passed to a textbox. however, I have 3 textboxes i need to populate based on the selection of the combobox: username. department and email. i have the username going into a textbox, but i'm not sure how to pass department and email into two other textboxes. I'd appreciate any help you could provide. Thanks. Code: [Select] <script> function CBtoTB() {document.getElementById("username").value=document.getElementById("usernameselect").value} </script> <?php $result=mysql_query("select Username, EMail, Department from users"); $options=""; while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $username=$row["Username"]; $options.="<OPTION VALUE=\"$username\">".$username.'</option>'; } ?> <select name="usernameselect" id="usernameselect" onchange="CBtoTB()"> <option value="">< select user ><?php echo $options ?></option> </select> <input name="username" type="text" id="username" value="<?php echo $username ?>" size="25" readonly="readonly" /> I am currently creating a form and I want to populate a drop down selection menu with data from two fields in a form. For example, I want it to pull the first and last name fields from a database to populate names in a drop down menu in a form. I want the form to submit to the email address of the person selected in the drop down. Is this possible to do? The email is already a field in the record of the person in the database. Can anyone give me some pointers or advice on how I should go about setting up the "Select" box drop down? I am not sure how to code it to do what I am wanting. Any links to relevant help would be appreciated too. Thanks in advance! Like the title says. I have 4 of the same number in my database, but I only want my website to display one of the 4. How can I do something like this? How do I call the last ID number from a table in MySql and echo it? This is what I have so far: Code: [Select] $query = mysql_query("SELECT idnum FROM ready_aclassft"); Maybe im comeing at it all wrong. I am designing a mmorpg guild site, and decided to make a coordinate database. A user will enter their own coords, x and y, and the 10 closest coords to them will be displayed. I need help doing this. My table is: id coordx coordy alliance region I am using $_GET to retrieve the user's input. so $_GET['mex'] $_GET['mey'] Thanks in advance for your help. How to text a phone number in database as well as record recieved textmessages into mysql database. Any help here? i've been googling for ages. My current project requires me to save the number of views an image (banner ad) has appeared on users website. The problem here is that the image will be appearing on several users website and i want to be able to save the number of times it has appeared on my database. I know how to do this if the image was on the same server as the database, but not when the image and database are on completely different servers. This is somewhat like analytic where it tracks the visitors to a page. Does anyone how i can accomplish this? i figured i would need to create a JavaScript code to provide to the user so they can place it on the site but how do i get that code to connect to my database? Hey guys, I m not yet an experienced coder. SO faced alot of problems. Here, I'm trying to generate a UNIQUE RANDOM NUMBER set between two numbers. Repetative occurance must be avoided by all means as I want every number so generated bears a unique value. In other words, every values that made entry into the field of my database should be differant from each others. <?php $conN=mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); if(!$conN) { die('error'.mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("freebie_allusers",$conN); $UIN=mt_rand(1,5); $locateUIN="SELECT UIN FROM user_info WHERE UIN='".$UIN."'"; $fetchUIN=mysql_query($locateUIN); $resultUIN=mysql_num_rows($fetchUIN); if($resultUIN>0) { WHAT CODE IS REQUIRED HERE SO AS TO GENERATE UNIQUE RANDOM NUMBER? } else echo $UIN; ?> Thanx in advance hi!, is it possible to use rand() to generate unique number that will be saved in a database as a primary key? Since i dont want to have numbers like 00001 incrementing on the table. They dont look like real account numbers... i need something like 45642 or 95452 and the like. thanks in advance. Hello, I am using the following code to display images managed by a MySQL database. Basically another program manages a bunch of images, but this script displays certain ones (ones with INCLUDE = 1 in the database) on my main page. My question is, is there an easy way to limit the number of images it displays, say to 5? I'm not too concerned which images actually display (ascending or descending)... or better yet, random! Most importantly, I only want five to display. Each image will be linked to the full page, which displays all the images. Any ideas? Thanks! Code: [Select] <?php $username="XXXXXXX"; $password="XXXXXXX"; $database="XXXXXXX"; mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password); @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database"); $query="SELECT * FROM ft_form_12 WHERE col_24='1'"; // $query="SELECT * FROM ft_form_12"; // SELECT * FROM ft_form_12 WHERE col_24='1' $result=mysql_query($query); $num=mysql_numrows($result); mysql_close(); ?> <?php $i=0; while ($i < $num) { $f20=mysql_result($result,$i,"col_23"); //Photo file name $f21=mysql_result($result,$i,"col_24"); //INCLUDE ?> <a href="http://www.domain.com/display_whole_page.shtml"><img src="http://www.domain.com/the_file/pictures/<?php echo $f20; ?>" height="50" border="0"></a> <?php $i++; } ?> Hi, I need to write some code for this but unsure where to start. Basically i have a database of say 10 rows. I need to be able to input a number and some sort of fair algorithm will choose one of the rows. The number will be from 6 to 10 numbers long, and will need to pick the same result each time based on that number. Its for a lotto game |