PHP - Select * From $variable Instead Of The Tablename Possible?

Okay, really newbie question, but for this code...
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<!-- Gender -->
<label for="gender">Gender:</label>
<select id="gender" name="gender">
<option value="">--</option>
<option value="F">Female</option>
<option value="M">Male</option>
</select>

1.) How do I assign a variable to this?

2.) How do I make this "sticky"?


Here is how I have usually done other form types...
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<!-- First Name -->
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input id="firstName" name="firstName" type="text" maxlength="30"
value="<?php if(isset($firstName)){echo htmlentities($firstName, ENT_QUOTES);} ?>" /><!-- Sticky Field -->
<?php
if (!empty($errors['firstName'])){
echo '<span class="error">' . $errors['firstName'] . '</span>';
}
?>


Oh, by the way, at the top of my PHP file I have this code...
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if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){
// Form was Submitted (Post).

// Initialize Errors Array.
$errors = array();

// Trim all form data.
$trimmed = array_map('trim', $_POST);

Thanks,


Debbie

When I run

'select 1700-price as blah from goldclose as t2 order by dayid desc limit 1'

by itself in mysql I get a numerical result: one row, one column.

In my php script, the 1700 is actually a variable. so here it is

$changequery = sprintf("select $goldprice-price as change from goldclose order by dayid desc limit 1");
$change = mysql_query(changequery);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($change)) {
    printf("$row[0]"); 
}

mysql_free_result($changeresult);


I get the following error,

Warning:  mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>/root/fuzzy/htmlmain4.php on line 99

Warning:  mysql_free_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>/root/fuzzy/htmlmain4.php on line 103

Not sure why? All i want is to get the result of that select statement into a variable such as $change

hirealimo.com.au/code1.php

this works as i want it:
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SELECT * FROM price INNER JOIN vehicle USING (vehicleID) WHERE vehicle.passengers >= 1 AND price.townID = 1 AND price.eventID = 1



but apparelty selecting * is not a good thing????

but if I do this:
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SELECT priceID, price FROM price INNER JOIN vehicle....etc


it works but i lose the info from the vehicle table.

but how do i make this work:
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SELECT priceID, price, type, description, passengers FROM price INNER JOIN vehicle....etc


so that i am specifiying which colums from which tables to query??

thanks

I have 2 queries that I want to join together to make one row  

Hello all. I am very new to PHP, and I am not sure where to look or what I'm looking for in my current assignment.

My task is to take in two numbers between 0-100. Once I take in that number, it should state beside it "The __ was accepted."
The program should not accept any numbers greater than 100 or any characters.

Once I do this, I must take a second number and do a similar thing.

Finally, I must have a statement show up at the bottom stating which number is greater.

Essentially, I need help in determining what I should use to place parameters, and how I can keep the program from echo ing any statement until input has been taken and tested for parameters.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated!

I am trying to allow the user to update a variable he chooses by radio buttons, which they will then input text into a box, and submit, to change some attributes. I really need some help here.  It works just fine until I add the second layer of variables on top of it, and I can't find the answer to this question anywhere.

<?PHP require('connect.php'); ?>

<form action ='' method='post'> <select name="id">

<?php
$extract = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cars");
   
   while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($extract)){
   $id = $row['id'];
   $make= $row['make'];
   $model= $row['model'];
   $year= $row['year'];
   $color= $row['color'];

echo "<option value=$id>$color $year $make $model</option>
";}?>

</select>

Which attribute would you like to change?<br />
<input type="radio" name="getchanged" value="make"/>Make<br />
<input type="radio" name="getchanged" value="model"/>Model<br />
<input type="radio" name="getchanged" value="year" />Year<br />
<input type="radio" name="getchanged" value="color"   />Color<br /><br />

   <br /><input type='text' value='' name='tochange'>
   <input type='submit' value='Change' name='submit'>

</form>

//This is where I need help...

<?PHP
if(isset($_POST['submit'])&&($_POST['tochange'])){
mysql_query("
   UPDATE cars
   SET '$_POST[getchanged]'='$_POST[tochange]'
   where id = '$_POST[id]'
         ");}?>

My login script stores the user's login name as $_SESSION[ 'name'] on login. For some unapparent reason, i'm getting errors stating that $user  and $priv are  undefined variables, though I've attempted to define $user as being equal to $_SESSION['name'], using $user to look up the the user's privilege level (stored as the su column ) in the SQL table, and then where the result of the sql query is $priv which is then evaluated in an if statement. I can't seem to figure out why this might not be working.

The code I'm using:

<?php
session_start();
function verify() {
	//verify that the user is logged in via the login page. Session_start has already been called. 
	if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedin'])) {
	header('Location: /index.html'); 
	exit;
	}
	//if user is logged in, we then lookup necessary privleges. $_SESSION['name'] was written with the login name upon login. Privleges   // are written in db as a single-digit integer of of 0 for users, 1 for administrators, and 2 for special users. 
        $user === $_SESSION['name'];
    //Connect to Databse
	$link = mysqli_connect("127.0.0.1", "database user", "password", "database");
	if (!$link) {
  	  echo "Error: Unable to connect to MySQL." . PHP_EOL;
    	echo "Debugging errno: " . mysqli_connect_errno() . PHP_EOL;
    	echo "Debugging error: " . mysqli_connect_error() . PHP_EOL;
    	exit;
        }
        //SQL Statement to lookup privlege information. 
       if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT su FROM accounts WHERE username = $user", MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT)) {
         //LOOP TO CYCLE THROUGH SQL RESULTS AND STORE Privlege information as vairable $priv.
            while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
           $priv === $row["su"];
            }
        }
        // close SQL connection.
        mysqli_close($link);

 // Verify privleges and take action. Only a privlege of "1" is allowed to view this page. A privlege of "2" indicates special 
//accounts used in other scripts that have certain indermediate additional functions, but are not trusted administrators. 

        if ($priv !== 1) {
        echo $_SESSION['name'];
        echo "you have privlege level of $priv";
        echo "<br>";
        echo 'Your account does not have the privleges necessary to view this page';
        exit;
        }
        
}
verify();
?>

 

I have just re-installed Xampp and suddenly my sites are now displaying lots of:

Notice: Use of undefined constant name - assumed 'name' in ...
Notice: Use of undefined constant price - assumed 'price' in ...

this is an example of the line its refering too:

$defineProducts[1001] = array(name=>'This is a product', price=>123);

I have a form that creates rows of data input textboxes depending on a user input number of things.  I have a naming convention for all these textboxes that basically just keeps incrementing a number suffix for each row.  All this is working fine.

My problem is I need to get the data inserted into this table of textboxes into an array.

Here's my code where I attempt to to this (it does not work):

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$temp = $_SESSION['Num_Part'];
$count = 1;
while ($count <= $temp){
  $temp2[$count] = "'Participant_P".$count."'";
  //echo $temp2[$count]."<br/>";
  $temp3[$count]=$_POST[$temp2[$count]];  //here's the problem
  $temp4[$count] = "'Result_P".$count."'";
  $temp5[$count]=$_POST[$temp4[$count]];  //here's the problem
  //echo $temp4[$count]."<br/>";
  $count++;
}

The problem is that the $_POST does not work with the variable in the argument position - even though the argument is formatted with single quotes.

Can a variable be used in a POST argument and if so what is the correct syntax?

If not, is there some other simple solution to harvest the data into an array.  I understand I can harvest by explicitly accessing each key in the post assoc array.  But this could be dozens of rows of input fields.

Thanks in advance for your help here.  I couldn't find anything online re this topic.

I have a script that adds points together based upon the placing. This is the actual script:

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<? $points = 0;

if($place === '1st') {$points = $points + 50;}
elseif($place === '2nd') {$points = $points + 45;}
elseif($place === '3rd') {$points = $points + 40;}
elseif($place === '4th') {$points = $points + 35;}
elseif($place === '5th') {$points = $points + 30;}
elseif($place === '6th') {$points = $points + 25;}
elseif($place === '7th') {$points = $points + 20;}
elseif($place === '8th') {$points = $points + 10;}
elseif($place === '9th') {$points = $points + 10;}
elseif($place === '10th') {$points = $points + 10;}
elseif($place === 'CH') {$points = $points + 50;}
elseif($place === 'RCH') {$points = $points + 40;}
elseif($place === 'TT') {$points = $points + 30;}
elseif($place === 'T5') {$points = $points + 30;}
elseif($place === 'Champion') {$points = $points + 50;}
elseif($place === 'Reserve Champion') {$points = $points + 40;}

echo "Total HF Points: $points";
?>What it *should* do (my friend's script works the same way and it works) it starts at points = 0, than if there is a first place, it adds 50, and so forth until it reaches the end.

It is included into a file, in this area:

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<div class="tabbertab">
<h2>Records</h2>
<? $query92 = "SELECT * FROM THISTABLE WHERE VARIABLE='$id' OR VARIABLE = '$name' ORDER BY ABS(VARIABLE), VARIABLE";
$result92 = mysql_query($query92) or die (mysql_error());

echo "<table class='record'>
<tr><th>Show</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Place</th></tr>
";

while($row92 = mysql_fetch_array($result92)) {
$class = $row92['class'];
$place = $row92['place'];
$entries = $row92['entries'];
$race = $row92['show'];
$purse = number_format($row92['purse'],2);

echo "<tr><td>$race</td> <td>$class</td> <td>$place</td></tr>";
}
?>
<tr><td colspan='3'><div align='right'><? include('includes/points.php'); ?></div></td></tr>
</table>
</div>

This is the code that is relevant. When ended here, it echoes the last place that appears in the results (such as a 5th place echoing 30 points). When I move it to be included in the while loop, it shows Total Points: 50 Total Points: 25 Total Points: 10 (depending on the results displayed on that page). What am I doing wrong?

Hello everyone,

I can get Test 2 to successfully operate the if statement using a variable variable.

But when I try the same method using a session variable (Test 1) the if statement is not executed. Please could you tell me why the if statement in Test 1 is not being executed?

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<?php
# TEST 1
$_SESSION[test_variable] = "abcd";
$session_variable_name = "_SESSION[test_variable]";
if ($$session_variable_name == "abcd")
{
echo "<br>line 373, abcd<br>";
}

# TEST 2
$test_variable = "efgh";
$test_variable_name = "test_variable";
if ($$test_variable_name == "efgh")
{
echo "<br>line 379, efgh<br>";
}

?>
Many thanks,

Stu

Dear All,

I wish to have 2 drop down boxes, Country Select Box and Locality Select Box. The locality select box will be affected by the value chosen in the country select box.

All is working fine except that the locality select box is not being populated.
I know that the problem is in the sql statement

WHERE country_id='$co'

because i am having an error that $co is an undefined variable.

All the rest works fine because i have replaced the $co variable directly with a number (say 98) for a particular country id and it worked fine. In what way can i define this variable $co so that it is accepted by my sql statement?

Thank you for your help in advance.

MySQL Tables indicated below:

CREATE TABLE countries(
country_id INT(3) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
country_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(country_id),
UNIQUE KEY(country_name),
INDEX(country_id),
INDEX(country_name))
ENGINE=MyISAM;

CREATE TABLE localities(
locality_id INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
country_id INT(3) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
locality_name VARCHAR(50),
PRIMARY KEY (locality_id),
INDEX (country_id),
INDEX (locality_name))
ENGINE=MyISAM;

Extract PHP script included below:

// connect to database
require_once(MYSQL);

if(isset($_POST['submitted']))

{

// trim the incoming data

/* this line runs every element in $_POST through the trim() function, and assigns the returned result to the new $trimmed array */
$trimmed=array_map('trim',$_POST);

// clean the data

$co=mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$trimmed['country']);

$lc=mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,$trimmed['locality']);

}

?>

<form action="form.php" method="post">

<p>Country
<select name="country">
<option>Select Country</option>

<?php

$q="SELECT country_id, country_name
FROM countries";

$r=mysqli_query($dbc,$q) or
trigger_error("Query: $q\n<br />MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error($dbc));

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($r))

{

$country_id=$row[0];
$country_name=$row[1];
echo '<option value="' . $country_id . '"';
if(isset($trimmed['country']) && ($trimmed['country']==$country_id))
echo 'selected="selected"';
echo '>' . $country_name . '</option>\n';

}

?>

</select>
</p>

<p>Locality
<select name="locality">
<option>Select Locality</option>

<?php

$ql="SELECT locality_id, country_id, locality_name
FROM localities
WHERE country_id='$co'
ORDER BY locality_name";

$rl=mysqli_query($dbc,$ql) or
trigger_error("Query: $q\n<br />MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error($dbc));

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($rl))

{

$locality_id=$row[0];
$country_id=$row[1];
$locality_name=$row[2];
echo '<option value="' . $locality_id . '"';
if(isset($trimmed['locality']) && ($trimmed['locality']==$locality_id))
echo 'selected="selected"';
echo '>' . $locality_name . '</option>\n';

}

// close database connection
mysqli_close($dbc);

?>

</select>
</p>

<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>

<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE" />

</form>

Probably something simple but I have searched high and low and can't figure this one out.

I have a variable that is of the datetime format.
I have another variable that is of the time format.
I need to add them together.

Example:
$var1 = 2012-02-24 06:38:22
$var2 = 02:00:00

$var3 = $var1 + $var2 = 2012-02-24 08:38:22

Thanks for the help!

hi all,

I have an language pack for example:
languages/en.php:
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$en['mail']['letter closing'] = "regards,\n your friend!";
and in my config:
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$language = "en";
$include_language = @include("languages/".$language.".php");
if(!($include_language))
{
    $try_default_language = @include("languages/nl.php");
    if(!($try_default_language))
    {
        echo "kan de taalpakket niet vinden<br>";
        echo "Could not find the language pack.<br>";
        echo "example on error: ".$test." shows nothing";
        exit;
    }
}
In my function I want to include the language pack for example i have $language = 'en' so I want to include $en['general']['letter closing']

I will do this:
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global $language,${$language}['general'];
But that gives an error unexpected '[' blah blah.

How can i call the variable variable array in the valid php way?

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i need to store a variable from database like if i have "copies" in one of my column in my database then i have to store a particular value for copies store it to $copies
here i want that i can store value of copies into $copies




$update_book="update book set copies=copies-1 where bookid='$bookid'";
        $result=mysql_query($update_book,$linkID1);
            if($result)
            {
            print "<html><body background=\"header.jpg\">
            <p>book successfully subtracted from database</p></body></html>";
            }
            else {
            print "<html><body background=\"header.jpg\">
            <p>problem occured</p></body></html>";
            }

    }