hobbiton73 Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I wonder whether someone may be able to help me please. I'm trying to put together php code and an html form that allows an administrator to search for a user via the email address, retrieving the 'first' and 'surname' from the pertinent record in a mySQL database. What I would like to happen is for the retrieved 'first' and surname' values to be automatically populated into the 'first' and 'surname' text boxes on the same search form. I can perform the search and retrieval of the correct record without any problem, but I can't work out how to populate the 'first' and 'surname' values into my search form. I am quote a novice with PHP so apologies if this is a really daft question, but I just windered whether somone could take a look at my code below and let me know where I've gone wrong? Many thanks PHP CODE <?php require("phpfile.php"); // Opens a connection to a MySQL server $connection=mysql_connect ("hostname", $username, $password); if (!$connection) { die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());} // Set the active MySQL database $db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection); if (!$db_selected) { die ('Can\'t use db : ' . mysql_error()); } $email = $_POST['email']; $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM userdetails WHERE emailaddress like '%$email%'"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo $row['forename']; echo $row['surname']; echo "<br />"; } ?> HTML FORM !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Maptitle> <script src="js/gen_validatorv4.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <h1><span class="blue">Sign Up</span> For Map My Finds</h1> <form name="userpasswordreset" id="userpasswordreset" method="post" action="search.php"> <h2>Your Details </h2> </div> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="26%" height="25"><strong>Email Address</strong></td> <td width="4%"> </td> <td width="70%"><input name="email" type="email" id="email" size="50" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Confirm Email</strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="conf_email" type="email" id="conf_email" size="50" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><label> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" /> </label></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong> First Name </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="fname" type="text" id="fname" size="30" value="<?php echo $forename; ?>" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong> Address Last Name </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="lname" type="text" id="lname" size="30" value="<?php echo $surname; ?>" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Password</strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="pass" type="password" id="pass" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Confirm Password </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="conf_pass" type="password" id="conf_pass" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Password Hint </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="hint" type="text" id="hint" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> // Code for validating the form // Visit http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/javascript-form-validation.phtml // for details var frmvalidator = new Validator("userpasswordreset"); frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email address"); frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email","Please enter a valid email address"); frmvalidator.addValidation("conf_email","eqelmnt=email", "The confirmed email address is not the same as the email address"); </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 ok, you shouldn't be using SELECT * for that query, you only need to SELECT forename, surname You also need to assign forename and surname to to your variables $forename and $surname. As well as this, unless the form and the query are on the same page you will need to move the values accross the pages before you assign them. Are these on the same page or two different ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbiton73 Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Hi, many thanks for helping me out with this, as I said I'm a novice at this. Could you perhaps tell me please, is it better to move the values from page to page or to incorporate the PHP code within the HTMl form? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 To be honest, it's better to work how you feel comfortable at the moment. If you're happy using two pages, then use two pages, if you preffer one, then use one. Once you're more settled in the language you can worry about which is better long term. Still need you to tell us what setup you are using just now so we can help with the code . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbiton73 Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 Hi, many thanks for replying to my post. I'm quite happy to use one page, so I've amalgamted the two and posted the revised code below. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <?php require("phpfile.php"); // Opens a connection to a MySQL server $connection=mysql_connect ("hostname", $username, $password); if (!$connection) { die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());} // Set the active MySQL database $db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection); if (!$db_selected) { die ('Can\'t use db : ' . mysql_error()); } $email = $_POST['email']; $result = mysql_query("SELECT forename, surname FROM userdetails WHERE emailaddress like '%$email%'"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo $row['forename']; echo $row['surname']; echo "<br />"; } ?> <title>Maptitle> <script src="js/gen_validatorv4.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <form name="userpasswordreset" id="userpasswordreset" method="post"> <h2>User Details </h2> </div> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="26%" height="25"><strong>Email Address</strong></td> <td width="4%"> </td> <td width="70%"><input name="email" type="email" id="email" size="50" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Confirm Email</strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="conf_email" type="email" id="conf_email" size="50" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><label> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" /> </label></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong> First Name </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="fname" type="text" id="fname" size="30" value="<?php echo $row['forename']; ?>" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong> Address Last Name </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="lname" type="text" id="lname" size="30" value="<?php echo $row['surname']; ?>" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Password</strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="pass" type="password" id="pass" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Confirm Password </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="conf_pass" type="password" id="conf_pass" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"><strong>Password Hint </strong></td> <td> </td> <td><input name="hint" type="text" id="hint" size="30" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> // Code for validating the form // Visit http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/javascript-form-validation.phtml // for details var frmvalidator = new Validator("userpasswordreset"); frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email address"); frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email","Please enter a valid email address"); frmvalidator.addValidation("conf_email","eqelmnt=email", "The confirmed email address is not the same as the email address"); </body> </html> In terms of my setup, I'm not quite sure what you mean, so I hope I've not giving you a load of useless information. My server uses PHP5, my operating system is Windows XP and I'm using Dreamweaver to put my code together. I hope this helps, sincere apologies if it isn't of help. Kind regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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