PHP - Change Sql Selects Based On If On Desktop Or Phone/tablet ?

What are your feelings regarding Linux desktop distros, and their ability to break through to mainstream usage? I started using Ubuntu about 6 or 7 years ago, and have fooled around with some other distros, but at least for me Ubuntu always seemed the best. I've got my 65 year old mom using it, and my 11 year old son playing with Kubuntu (and learning python!). I don't really consider us normal though; normal being almost too dumb to do more than check email and get on the internet.   I've managed to fully switch over to Ubuntu on all of my computers, with the exception of running Windows in a VM for Photoshop and Illustrator. Since I don't use those programs every day, there are a lot of days where I don't see Windows. I never really had a problem with Windows, except for Windows 3.1 was kind of a drag. Getting on the internet on a 56K modem on Windows 95 wasn't any fun either, but that wasn't Windows' fault. I never had the crashes and bad experiences people like to claim makes Windows suck. My main reason for abandoning Windows is just to be more involved with Linux, and hopefully reach Linux guru status someday.   I really never liked Macs. I bought one 3 or 4 years ago, and it just felt like I was paying a lot of money for a glorified (and over-hyped) linux distro. I really never liked the feel of the Finder. At the time there was no awesome text editor, and I bought a couple just to test out what I could find. Unlike Windows and Linux, it seemed like nothing is free in the Mac world. I eventually gave the Mac away. We couldn't be friends.   I'd really like to see Linux become the dominant OS. It's exciting to see how far Ubuntu has come in the years that I've used it, and I evangelize for Linux/Ubuntu quite a bit. Even still, it can sometimes seem that I am a stranger in a strange world. Do you think we can count on Linux being a bigger part of mainstream computing? One of the problems I see is that there are so many distros that a person investigating Linux may be a little overwhelmed. What do you think is keeping the masses from using Linux desktops?

Hi Guys..

How can I change a date on the fly ?
Everything is UTC on my server.

How can I change a date to something else on the fly?

Ie:

$timezone = "cet";
$datetime = "2011-09-04 19:53:00";

echo $datetime($timezone);

So I can give it a datetime and have it echo the datetime as if it were in the other timezone?

Thanks
Graham

Hi Guys,

I am a typical newbie with a twist, i program in VB, recently moved to PHP.

I need help, preferable an example, but first let me explain what i have.

I have a .tpl page that has 3 drop down boxes, one of these is populated from within the .tpl page itself. The other 2 i waant to pupulate from a SELECT on a database from a .php file.

The .TPL file i have so far is:-

Code: [Select]
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style7 {
   color: #006600;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: 18px;
}
.style14 {color: #003300; font-weight: bold; }
.style16 {
   color: #000066;
   font-style: italic;
}
.style25 {
   color: #FF0000;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: 12px;
}
.style28 {
   font-size: 12px;
   color: #330000;
}
.style29 {
   font-size: 12px
}
.style31 {color: #003300; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; }
.style33 {
   color: #000099;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-style: italic;
   font-size: 18px;
}
.style34 {
   color: #FF0000;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: 24px;
}
.style35 {font-size: 12px; color: #003300; }
.style36 {
   color: #FF0000;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: 14px;
   font-style: italic;
}
.style38 {color: #003300; font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; }
-->
</style>

  <script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<h1 align="center" class="style34">Scotbirds Alertz - Rare and Scarce</h1>
<h3 align="center" class="style36">Soon Only VIP Members will be able to Access this Page</h3>
<h3 align="center" class="style14">If you have seen something unusual / rare then please call it in on -- <span class="style33">Hotline: 0333 5772473</span></h3>
<p align="center" class="style14">

<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>

  <?php print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
     $the_date_filter = $_GET["DATE_FILTER"];?>

    <td width="1%"><td width="5%"><td width="2%"><td width="2%"><td width="2%"><form action="alertz_VIP.php" method="post">
    <td width="2%"><td width="2%"><td width="5%"><span class="style38">Date</span><td width="3%"></td>
    <td width="12%"><span class="style14">
      <select name=DATE_FILTER size="1" id=DATE_FILTER onchange="this.form.submit()">
        <option value="All Dates">All Dates</option>
        <option value="Today">Today</option>
        <option value="Last 48hrs">Last 48hrs</option>
        <option value="Last week">Last Week</option>
        <option value="last month">Last Month</option>
      </select>
    </span></td>
    <td width="1%">&nbsp;</td>
    <td width="7%"><span class="style16"><span class="style14"><span class="style31">Region</span></span></span></td>
   
        <td width="22%"><span class="style16"><span class="style14">
          <select name=REGION_FILTER size="1" id=REGION_FILTER onchange="this.form.submit()">
            <option value="AllRg">All Regions</option>
            <option value={REGION_FILTER}></option>
          </select>
        </span></span></td>
    <td width="1%">&nbsp;</td>

    <td width="8%"><span class="style16"><span class="style14"><span class="style31">Species</span></span></span></td>
    <td width="20%"><span class="style16"><span class="style14">
      <select name=SPECIES_FILTER size="1" id=SPECIES_FILTER onchange="this.form.submit()">
        <option value="AllSpec">All Species</option>
        <option value={SPECIES_FILTER}></option>
      </select>
    </span></span></td>
    <td width="9%"><input type="Submit" name="submit2" value="Search"  method="get" action="alertz_VIP.php" /></td>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table width="870" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#99CC99">

  <tr>
    <th width="178" class="style31" scope="col">Region</th>
    <th width="184" class="style31" scope="col">Species</th>
    <th width="96" class="style31" scope="col">Date</th>
    <th width="96" class="style31" scope="col">Time</th>
    <th width = "304" class="style31" scope="col">Comments</th>
  </tr>
  <!-- BEGIN alerts -->
  <tr>
    <th class="style7 style29" scope="col">{alerts.REGION}</th>
    <th class="style25" scope="col">{alerts.SPECIES}</th>
    <th class="style35" scope="col">{alerts.DATE} </th>
    <th scope="col"><span class="style35">{alerts.TIME} </span></th>
    <th scope="col"><span class="style28">{alerts.COMMENTS} </span></th>
  </tr>
  <!-- END alerts -->
</table>
<p align="center" class="style14">&nbsp;</p>

Now from here i expect the user to select a date from the date box, ( Ideally i would like the other 2 options to only become visible once a selection on the date has been made, i would also like to retain the selected in the date box once the form has been submited.

Now the code i have for the PHP so far is quite long winded as my PHP skills are not so good, although i am learning fast.

Code: [Select]
<?php
/***************************************************************************
*                                Alertz.php
*                            -------------------
*   begin                : 30/10/04/10
*   copyright         : (C) 2010 Andy Guppy
*   email                : webmaster@scotbird.co.uk
*
*
***************************************************************************/

define('IN_ICYPHOENIX', true);

if (!defined('IP_ROOT_PATH')) define('IP_ROOT_PATH', './');
if (!defined('PHP_EXT')) define('PHP_EXT', substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1));

// Include files
include(IP_ROOT_PATH . 'common.' . PHP_EXT);
include_once(IP_ROOT_PATH . 'includes/functions_groups.' . PHP_EXT);
include(IP_ROOT_PATH . '/alerts/alertsconfig.'.PHP_EXT);

// Page Authorise
$cms_page_id = 'scotalertz';
$cms_page_nav = (!empty($cms_config_layouts[$cms_page_id]['page_nav']) ? true : false);
$cms_global_blocks = (!empty($cms_config_layouts[$cms_page_id]['global_blocks']) ? true : false);
$cms_auth_level = (isset($cms_config_layouts[$cms_page_id]['view']) ? $cms_config_layouts[$cms_page_id]['view'] : AUTH_ALL);
check_page_auth($cms_page_id, $cms_auth_level);

// Obtain Select Criteria
$temp_region_filter = $_REQUEST["REGION_FILTER"];
$temp_species_filter = $_REQUEST["SPECIES_FILTER"];
$temp_date_filter = $_REQUEST["DATE_FILTER"];

// Filter characters if required
$region_filter =str_replace(" & ", "&", $temp_region_filter);
$species_filter = $temp_species_filter;
$date_filter = $temp_date_filter;

// standard session management
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip);
// Check to see if user is logged in 
if ((!$userdata['session_logged_in']) )
   // No he isnt
   {
        redirect(append_sid(LOGIN_MG . '?redirect=alerts.' . PHP_EXT));
   
   }

else
   // Yes they are
   {
         
      init_userprefs($userdata);
      // set page title
      $page_title = "ScotBird alerts - VIP's ONLY !! ";

      // standard page header
      include(IP_ROOT_PATH . 'includes/page_header.'.PHP_EXT);
      
      // Connect to the database
      
      $db = new sql_db($alerts_mysql_host,$alerts_mysql_username,$alerts_mysql_password,$alerts_mysql_db,false);

       if(!$db)
      {
              die("Database Connection Failed:- Please Contact Site Admin" . mysql_error());
       }
      
      $template->set_filenames(array('body' => 'alertz_VIP.tpl'));

      if (!isset($_REQUEST['DATE_FILTER']))
      
      {
      
         // if date is NOT set then perform this
            echo 'Date has not been set';
            $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
            $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts GROUP BY species";
            $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts GROUP BY region";
            
            echo $sql2;
      }
      else
      {
         // if date is set then perform this
            $year =date("Y");
            $month = date("m");
            $day = date("d");
            $theenddate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
            echo 'the choice selected was :- '.$_REQUEST['DATE_FILTER'];
         
         switch ($date_filter)
         {
            case "All Dates":
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
            break;
            case "Today":
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date = '".$theenddate  ."'   ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date = '".$theenddate ."'  GROUP BY species";
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date ='".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            break;
            case "Last 48hrs":
               $year =date("Y");
               $month = date("m");
               $day = date("d")-1;
               $thestartdate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  GROUP BY species";
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            break;   
            case "Last week":
               $year =date("Y");
               $month = date("m");
               $day = date("d")-7;
               $thestartdate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  GROUP BY species";            
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            break;
            case "last month":
               $year =date("Y");
               $month = date("m")-1;
               $day = date("d");
               $thestartdate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  GROUP BY species";            
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            break;
            case "last 3 months":
               $year =date("Y");
               $month = date("m")-3;
               $day = date("d");
               $thestartdate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  GROUP BY species";            
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            break;
            default:
               // Default is the last 48hrs
               $year =date("Y");
               $month = date("m");
               $day = date("d")-1;
               $thestartdate  = $year . '-' .$month . '-' . $day ;
               $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."'  ORDER BY Date DESC, time DESC  ";
               $sql3 = "SELECT DISTINCT species FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY species";
               $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT region FROM alerts WHERE Date BETWEEN '".$thestartdate ."' AND '".$theenddate ."' GROUP BY region";
            
         }
      }

      $result2 = $db->sql_query($sql2);
      if (!($result2 = $db->sql_query($sql2)))
      {
         die("Database Query Failed" . mysql_error());
      }
      $i  = 1;

      while ( $row2 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result2) )
         {
            $template->assign_block_vars('alerts', array( 'POS' => $i ,
                  'REGION' => str_replace("&", " & ", $row2['region']),
                  'SPECIES' => str_replace("%", "'",$row2['species']),
                  'DATE' => $row2['Date'],
                  'TIME' =>  $row2['time'],
                  'COMMENTS' => str_replace("'", "%",$row2['comments']),
                  )
               );
            $i++;
         }
      
      $template->assign_vars(array(
            'USERNAME' => htmlspecialchars($userdata[username]),
            'REGION_FILTER' => str_replace("&", " & ", $region_filter_options),
            'SPECIES_FILTER' => $species_filter_options,
            )
         );

      
      
   
      $result = $db->sql_query($sql);
    
      if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql)))
         {
               die("Database Query Failed" . mysql_error());
         }

      // This is where you would add a new VARS Array if you intend to use your own custom VARS.
      
      
      while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
         {
               $region_filter_options .= '<option value="' . $row['region'] . '">' . $row['region'] . '</option>';

         }
         
            
      
   
      $result = $db->sql_query($sql3);
    
      if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql3)))
         {
               die("Database Query Failed" . mysql_error());
         }

      // This is where you would add a new VARS Array if you intend to use your own custom VARS.
      
      
      while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
         {
               
            $species_filter_options .= '<option value="' . $row['species'] . '">' . $row['species'] . '</option>';
         }
         
         
      $template->assign_vars(array(
            'USERNAME' => htmlspecialchars($userdata[username]),
            'REGION_FILTER' => str_replace("&", " & ", $region_filter_options),
            'SPECIES_FILTER' => $species_filter_options,
            
         )
      );   
         
         
      // Build the page
      $template->pparse('body');

      // standard page footer
      include(IP_ROOT_PATH . 'includes/page_tail.'.PHP_EXT);

   }
?>
Now my questions are these:-

1) In the .tpl file hows can i submit from any of the dropdown boxes and retain the selection after submission
2) How can i have it so that the second and third drop down boxes are only visible after the previous one, ie the first box ( date ) has to have a selection before the Region ( 2nd one ) is visible and so
3) How can i reduce the amount of code to cover all options in building a select statement or is Switch - case the best way.

I would greatly appreciate help with this and even more so for some example of what i am asking for so i can learn from them.

Okay, I currently have a query that is like:

Code: [Select]
$sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS a.ItemID, a.spec, a.description, a.sport, a.category, a.price, a.unit_qty, a.is_visible, a.AdminID,
b.name, b.ItemID as catID, c.Name as nameSport, c.ItemID as sportID
FROM purchase_request_category_item as a
LEFT JOIN purchase_request_category as b ON b.itemID = a.category
LEFT JOIN ro_school_sports as c ON c.ItemID = a.sport
WHERE a.AdminID = '".$dist."'
GROUP BY a.ItemID, b.name, c.Name
ORDER BY a.ItemID DESC LIMIT ".
$start.",".$limit;

I am building a custom search function which I intend to be able to change the WHERE line to:

WHERE a.AdminID = '".$dist."' ".$query


$query will be created via if statements for every element in the form which will be called either by the button on the form, or the links in my pagination.

The form would have the following:

Level(s): dynamic field, Multi Select
Status: Both/Enabled/Disabled single select
Sports: dynamic field, Multi Select

Category: dynamic field, single select.

the sport column is a single selected item on the add page, its of type int(11)

the levels table, is also a multi select on the add item page, and is of the type set('1','2','3','4','5','12','13')

So real question is I guess, how on earth do I work with these 2 multi selects to create this search? 

This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=334031.0

Hi all   I am using media queries in my css to create a responsive site, when I view the site on a mobile, the site responds as I intend it to.   However if I view it on a desktop and resize the screen, it doesn't respond as I would like, the idea is, if I resize  the desktop version enough then I will view the mobile version.   in one css file I have  

 
@media screen and(max-width: 1024px) {
 
css styles
 
}

  and then on another file, I have the following, the idea with this is when I get below the specified screen size the items don't show  

@media screen and (min-width: 1024px) {
 
}

  if you need any more info let me know.   Thanks   Mark

Hello,   Any ideas why server resources not exhausted on the code below, when my.cnf and php.ini are both set to use half the resources each? PHP & MySQL will both utilize all allotted resources on other scripts, so it's not a tuning problem. There is no script-side tuning.   The bottleneck: pdo select as shown below

foreach($bigList as $listObject) {
                $sql = $dbl->prepare("SELECT * FROM fewMillionRows WHERE indexedCol1=:indexedCol1 AND indexedCol2=:indexedCol2 AND indexedCol3=:indexedCol3 AND indexedCol4=:indexedCol4 LIMIT 1");
                $sql->execute($preparedValues);
                $return = $sql->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
}

On a dedicated server with 8GB RAM, the server uses >5% cpu/ram but takes a long time to finish the script.     Second Question What are some alternative designs?   Because the column values all happen to be alphanumeric, I could select the entire table and store it in an array. Accessing the keys like so: indexedCol1indexedCol2indexedCol3indexedCol4.   Results: MyISAM - Select Whole Table: 30 seconds MyISAM – Select Individual Rows (10k times) – 68 seconds InnoDB – Select Whole Table: 30 seconds InnoDB – Select Individual Rows (10k times) – 131 seconds     I am surprised it takes so long to select a whole table. The server resources use 1% for about 20 seconds, then cpu/ram jump to 30%+ for about 10 seconds. This is still drastically faster than individual selects.   In this instance, $bigList is over 500k items. At 68 seconds per 10k rows it’s absurdly long. Building an array with key/values is the only realistic way I currently know of, but I suspect there is a much better way of doing this.     As far as I know, I cannot do a select like so: SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE (column1,column2,column3) IN  ((val1, val2,val3), (val4, val5,val6)) There is no way to determine whether a row was found for each entry as far as I know. 

Hey guys there is probably a simple fix to this but i am just not seeing it    ... Im createing a form that has error catching and self submitting valuse. I am trying to use a for loop to create all of the values and if the form is returned with an error then the correct values will still be filled out but i cant seem to get this loop to work. Every time i submit the form it doesnt matter what option i select it always comes back with the last one in the list or 30 in this case.

the problem code is below.. Any help would be appreciated.

Code: [Select]

<?php
for($i=1; $i<=30; $i++){
echo'<option value="'.$i.'"';
if(isset($_POST['petsAge'])== $i){ echo ' selected="selected"';}
echo '>'.$i.'</option>';
}
?>

Hi,   I would like to store sql query strings in a database. A query might look this like:   SELECT * from ListTable where id = '$id'   The idea would be to retrieve the string and run it as a SQL string. $id would be defined in the procedure so the idea is that when I send the SQL String through, $id would be replaced with its value and everything would work.   Under normal circumstances, the code would look like this:

$id = "somevalue";
$lcSQL = "SELECT * from ListTable where id = '$id'";

I would pass the SQL select off to mySQL and all is right with the world. I just want to store the string in a database, retreieve it and use it.   Thanks for your help in advance...    

Hi I would like to know how to make a link select certain stuff from the database. For example the link called cape town with the id 11 is selected then the link must search through the events table for the city_id 11 and take that information and display it in another page.

I would like to know how to do that or can you let me know of place that I can look. I have tried google but I don't know how to put what I'm looking for in words

Hi guys, thank for any help. This does not appear like a difficult problem but it has me stymied. I have several selects, the 1st item of each is "--Specify--" so that the user has to specifically choose an item. Once an item is selected on any select the others should be set to the 1st item or "--Specify--" to avoid confusion.

If you want to see the complete code it on this web page: http://chordsandguitar.com/progressions-test.php

The relevant code is:

Code: [Select]
if ($prog1_menu != "--Specify1--")
{
$prog2_menu = "--Specify--";
echo "set prog2 to Specify";
}

if ($prog2_menu != "--Specify2--")
{
$prog1_menu = "--Specify--";
echo "set prog1 to Specify";
}

echo "<form action = \"progressions-test.php?s_sort_all=$sort_all&s_prog1_menu=$prog1_menu&s_prog2_menu=$prog2_menu&s_prog1_trigged=$prog1_trigged&s_prog2_trigged=$prog2_trigged\" method = \"GET\">";
//also stores the values of the drop-downs when Select button is pushed so they can be retrieved when the web page is loaded again



echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ascending bass line";
echo "<br />";
echo "Select a progression: <a href=\"http://www.chordsandguitar.com/progressions-test.php?s_sort_all=All&s_prog1_menu=--Select--&s_prog2_menu=--Select--\"\"><big>ALL</big></a>";
echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;";

echo "<select name=\"prog1_menu\"  onchange=\"this.form.submit();\">";

echo "<option value=\"--Specify1--\">--Specify--</option>";
if ($prog1_menu == "ii-iii-IV-V progression") echo "<option SELECTED value=\"ii-iii-IV-V progression\">ii-iii-IV-V progression</option>";
else echo "<option value=\"ii-iii-IV-V progression\">ii-iii-IV-V progression</option>";
if ($prog1_menu == "I-ii-IV-V progression") echo "<option SELECTED value=\"I-ii-IV-V progression\">I-ii-IV-V progression</option>";
else echo "<option value=\"I-ii-IV-V progression\">I-ii-IV-V progression</option>";
if ($prog1_menu == "I-iii-IV-V progression") echo "<option SELECTED value=\"I-iii-IV-V progression\">I-iii-IV-V progression</option>";
else echo "<option value=\"I-iii-IV-V progression\">I-iii-IV-V progression</option>";
echo  "</select>";

echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;";

echo "<select name=\"prog2_menu\" onchange=\"this.form.submit();\">";

echo "<option value=\"--Specify2--\">--Specify--</option>";
if ($prog2_menu == "I-sharpIo7-ii7-sharpIIo7 progression") echo "<option SELECTED value=\"I-sharpIo7-ii7-sharpIIo7 progression\">I-#Io7-ii7-#IIo7 progression</option>";
else echo "<option value=\"I-sharpIo7-ii7-sharpIIo7 progression\">I-#Io7-ii7-#IIo7 progression</option>";
if ($prog2_menu == "I-sharpIo7-ii7-V7 progression") echo "<option SELECTED value=\"I-sharpIo7-ii7-V7 progression\">I-#Io7-ii7-V7 progression</option>";
else echo "<option value=\"I-sharpIo7-ii7-V7 progression\">I-#Io7-ii7-V7 progression</option>";
echo  "</select>";

echo "</form>";
I am trying to identify which select box has been used so that I can set all the other boxes to the 1st item but I wind up re-setting all the boxes.

Cheers,

Jacques

Hi,   I have a booking form that displays fine on a desktop and other mobile devices, except on an iPhone 5. Does anyone know what could cause this? I know javascript is working on the iPhone, but not sure why the form isnt displaying.   Thanks

Hi i have this drop down list for date which contain 3 selects DAY MONTH YEAR hwo can i make so that when update form select keeps the same value has before help please

<?php
$months = array('','January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December');
echo '<select name="month_of_birth">';
for ($i=1;$i<13;++$i) {
   echo '<option value="' . sprintf("%02d",$i) . '">' . $months[$i] . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';
echo '<select name="day_of_birth">';
for ($i=1;$i<32;++$i) {
   echo '<option value="' . sprintf("%02d",$i) . '">' . $i . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';
echo '<select name="year_of_birth">';
$year = date("Y");
for ($i = $year;$i > $year-50;$i--) {
   $s = ($i == $year)?' selected':'';
   echo '<option value="' . $i . '" ' . $s . '>' . $i . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';
?>

I do not have code yet, i just want a general idea how to get started.   I have a database with +/- 15 columns. 6 people are using this database. Not all columns are relevant for each user.   So my idea was that each user will be able to make his preference by checking checkboxes for each column -> store this in the database so that when he logs in , his preference will be retrieved and used to make the right query.   second question, how do i make the headers so that they are the same als the preferences from the user ?   Just put me on the right track (or if someone has it on the shelf, post the code)   thanks in advance

have a database with a column of datatype EM (multiple selection, say apples, oranges, grapes)

I want to have a form with checkboxes for those values (apples, oranges, grapes etc) so one can select a breakfast basket type that contains for example, oranges and grapes.

It would pull from the database those baskets with those selection of fruits (specified in the column 'Fruits', which is a EM datatype column. (I have a multiple selection when entering the values for the column.)

Can it be done? Should I make another table with FruitNames?