[SOLVED] Dynamic dropdown returning bool(false)

Can someone please educate me?

If I var_dump($result) I get bool(false)

What am I doing wrong? I am trying to create a dynamic dropdown from the database.

Any help for a beginner is appreciated.

$query = "SELECT * FROM authors";
   $result = mysql_query($query);
     if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
       // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
       while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       {
          print("<option value=\"$row[0]\">$row[2]</option>");
       }
     } else {
       print("<option value=\"\">No users created yet</option>");
     }

This is your complete code.

Try like this:

$query = "SELECT * FROM authors";
   $result = mysql_query($query);
     if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
       // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
       while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       {
         echo "<select name='user'>";
          echo "<option value='$row[0]'>$row[2]</option>";
       }
     } else {
       echo "<option value=''>No users created yet</option>";
       echo "</select>";
     }

This is your complete code.

Try like this:

 

$query = "SELECT * FROM authors";
   $result = mysql_query($query);
     if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
       // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
       while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       {
         echo "<select name='user'>";
          echo "<option value='$row[0]'>$row[2]</option>";
       }
     } else {
       echo "<option value=''>No users created yet</option>";
       echo "</select>";
     }

I may be wrong but

  while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))

      {

        echo "<select name='user'>";

          echo "<option value='$row[0]'>$row[2]</option>";

      }

in while loop we are creating <select>??

i tried this and it worked form me kindly replicate at your end.

echo '<select>';

  if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {

      // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form

      while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))

      {

          echo "<option value=\"$row[0]\">$row[0]</option>"; --change this bold stuff according to your $row output

      }

    } else {

      echo "<option value=\"\">No users created yet</option>";

    }

echo '</select>';

Regards

still getting no users...

I have the select above it a bit further, because I wanted multi value etc..

Is this ok?

There is something wrong I think with the query, because it isn't finding the users, but I don't know what.

<form action="insertevent.php" method="POST">
    Author: <select name="authorid[]" id="authorid" multiple="true">"
<? $query = "SELECT * FROM authors";
   $result = mysql_query($query);
     if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
       // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
       while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       {

          echo "<option value=\"$row[0]\">$row[2]</option>";
       }
     } else {

       echo "<option value=\"\">No users created yet</option>";
     }
    echo '</select>';
    ?>

there must be an error

change

$result = mysql_query($query);

to

$result = mysql_query($query) or die("there was an error:".mysql_error());

and tell me if you get any errors

it died after the word authors... ran nothing after that, including the other stuff on the page, but returned no error.

If I look in my log(firefox) the last error is:

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Location.toString

Yeh Rajiv is right put mysql error reporting.

try this code:

$query = "SELECT * FROM authors";
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
    if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
      // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
     echo "<select name='user'>";
      while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result))
      {
        
         echo "<option value=\"$row->0\">$row->$row->2</option>";
      }
}else{
      echo "<option value=''>No users created yet</option>";
      echo "</select>";
    }

see your view source of the browser what does it give ?

got it working....

thank you very much

working code:

<form action="insertevent.php" method="POST">
    Author: <select name="authorid[]" id="authorid" multiple="true">"
<? $query = "SELECT * FROM authors ORDER BY authorlast ASC";
   $result = mysql_query($query) or die("there was an error:".mysql_error());
     if(mysql_num_rows($result)) {
       // we have at least one user, so show all users as options in select form
       while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       {
          echo "<option value=\"$row[0]\">$row[2]</option>";
       }
     } else {

       echo "<option value=\"\">No users created yet</option>";
     }
    echo '</select>';
    ?>

Just out of curiosity what was the error!!

I am not exactly sure... it just started working.

That is why I posted the whole code.

Although I am wondering if there was something wrong with the database connection, not the code? Possible?

Thanks all!