Hi, i want to update several rows in my table with different information

[norNerd]

Hi, i have a code like this:

          <?php
          $o    = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$mysql_data`.`category_Table` WHERE name!='Tomt felt' AND username='$userName'");
          while($out = mysql_fetch_object($o)){
          ?>  
            <tr>
              <td width="11">&nbsp;</td>
              <td width="153"><input type="text" name="<?php echo "what should i have here? :s";?>" value="<?php echo "$out->name"; ?>"></td>
              <td width="93">Gå til kategori</td>
              <td width="25" align="center">x</td>
              <td width="24" align="center">e</td>
            </tr>
           <?php
          }
           ?>

what can i do, to make it update etc 10 categories in the same form, with the same name?

think foreach and array is the thing, but i dont remeber that part at all anymore :s.

anyone with a solution?

norNerd

[Webnerd]

name="category[<?php echo $out->id;?>]"

[SrWebDeveloper]

Your existing code already correctly loops through the result set.

As to the second part, "what can i do, to make it update etc 10 categories in the same form, with the same name?" makes absolutely no sense to me plus the select * doesn't tell us what fields you're pulling anyway if you wanted to use one of those. I'm thinking too it's one of the fields in that table, maybe a category ID as was mentioned by the other respondent. On a side note, you should only select the fields you're using unless you're using them all. FYI - to optimize you queries.

You mentioned to think "array" in your comments so if you're asking how a form name attribute can contain mulitiple values, the solution is to simply append [] on the end, i.e. "name='foobar[]'". But that's not used in an INPUT tag, so just use the $o->whatever_name_it_is as was suggested.


-jim

[norNerd]

Hi, sorry for not explaining so good, but found a solution:

Output the categories

          <?php
              $pat_cat = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$mysql_data`.`category_Table` WHERE username='$userName' ORDER BY id DESC");
              while($out = mysql_fetch_assoc($pat_cat)){
          ?>  
            <tr>
              <td width="12">&nbsp;</td>
              <td width="132"><span style="color:#444444; font-size:13px; font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace; cursor:pointer;"> G&aring; til kategori </span></td>
              <td width="170"><input type="text" name="name_<?php echo $out['id'];?>" value="<?php echo $out['name']; ?>"></td>
            </tr>
           <?php
          }
           ?>

Then update the categories:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['save_categories'])){

    $update = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$mysql_data`.`category_Table` WHERE username='$userName'");
    while($up_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($update)){
        $name = $_POST['name_'.$up_row[id]];
            
            mysql_query("UPDATE `$mysql_data`.`category_Table` SET name='$name' WHERE id='$up_row[id]'");
    }
            
        echo "<script>alert('Categories updated.');</script>";
        echo "<script>window.close();</script>";
}
?>

Cheers!