Call-911 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Hey All, I tried seraching, but I'm not sure what exactly to search for. Here's what I need to do, and any push in the right direction would be great: I have a PHP form, with the Following: Text Box: Student ID Checkboxes for Activities What I need to do is somehow loop through and make a new row for each activity. Example, if I entered Student ID 105 and Activities are Basketball, Baseball, and Chess Team, I need three different rows in the database each listing the individual activity and the student ID. Any suggestions? I know how to do this if it was one entry (radio buttons) but want to be able to enter multiple rows at a time. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Instead of creating table fields for each type of activity as those will change, I would just have StudentID and Activities. Then for each posted (checkbox) activity insert studentID and the activity. You'd have something like this in your table assuming id is 5. StudentID | Activities 5 | Basketball 5 | Baseball 5 | Chess Team Then to show records you query for for student id and it would pull up all names listed under Activities where the student id matches. If you wanted to show all all students that for example are in Basketball, you would search for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Call-911 Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 That's exactly what I want to do, but to do it with Checkboxes. I know how to do that with dropdown menus or radio boxes, but how can I make a check box so they can go through and say "ID 5" has "Basketball", "Baseball", and "Chess Team" and to have it turn out: StudentID | Activities 5 | Basketball 5 | Baseball 5 | Chess Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 So what is your question exactly? Are you having problems with the form structure you need to use, or are you not sure how to set up the query, or both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummin Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 This sample page shows two options for using checkboxes. The big difference is in whether you use a form for each student or process all students at once. In this sample I used arrays for testing and demonstrating and pull out the values using a "foreach" statement. You will replace these foreach statements with mysql queries. Sample queries and inserts into DB are provided (commented out). <?php //Just for testing I'm creating arrays to hold student id and name. I'm also creating an array to hold activities. //It's expected that these will be removed as well as the foreach statement shown in the forms below and replaced with mysql queries where the foreach code is. $StudentIDs=array(5 => "Mark Flinn", 7 => "Mary Smith", 8 => "Robert Moss", 11 => "Jimmy Griffen", 12 => "Hanna Major"); $activities=array("Basketball", "Baseball", "Chess Team", "Volleyball", "Football"); //using this count in the lower form. $arraycount=count($activities); $arraycount2=count($activities)+1; //Process top form that posts each user individually if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ $studentID=$_POST['stuID']; foreach($_POST as $key => $value){ if($value=="yes"){ //echo values for testing echo "<br />$studentID $key"; /*Sample insert $studentID = mysql_real_escape_string($studentID); $key = mysql_real_escape_string($key); mysql_query("INSERT INTO `stuactivities` SET studentID='$studentID', activity='$key'");*/ } } } ///*******/// //Process bottom form that posts all users at the same time if(isset($_POST['submit2'])){ foreach($_POST as $key => $value){ if($value!="Submit"){ foreach($value as $studentID => $value2){ //echo values for testing echo "<br />$studentID $key"; /*Sample insert $studentID = mysql_real_escape_string($studentID); $key = mysql_real_escape_string($key); mysql_query("INSERT INTO `stuactivities` SET studentID='$studentID', activity='$key'");*/ } } } } //For testing I'm using foreach statements to pull values from the above arrays. Replace each foreach statement below with your mysql query ?> <html> <body> <?php foreach ($StudentIDs as $stuID => $stuname){ /*Sample query $getnames = mysql_query("SELECT name,studentID FROM students"); WHILE($userinfo = mysql_fetch_array($getnames)){ $stuID=$userinfo['studentID']; $stuname=$userinfo['name']; */ ?> <table border=0 summary="" cellpadding="0" style="background:#E9E9E9;"> <tr> <td> <form method="post" action="" style="padding:0; margin:0"> <div style="width:150px;float:left">Student: <?php echo "$stuname";?> <input type="hidden" name="stuID" value="<?php echo "$stuID";?>" /></div> <?PHP foreach ($activities as $activity){ /*Sample query $getactivities = mysql_query("SELECT activity FROM activities"); WHILE($gtactivities = mysql_fetch_array($getactivities)){ $activity=$gtactivities['activity']; */ echo "<div style=\"width:100px;float:left;text-align:center\">$activity <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"$activity\" value=\"yes\" /></div>"; } ?> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form></td> </tr> </table> <?PHP } ?> <br /><br /> <form method="post" action=""> <table border=0 summary="" cellpadding="3" style="background:#E9E9E9"> <tr> <td>Student Name</td><td colspan="<?php echo "$arraycount";?>" align="center">Activities</td></tr> <?PHP foreach ($StudentIDs as $stuID => $stuname){ /*Sample query $getnames = mysql_query("SELECT name,studentID FROM students"); WHILE($userinfo = mysql_fetch_array($getnames)){ $stuID=$userinfo['studentID']; $stuname=$userinfo['name']; */ ?> <tr> <td><?php echo "$stuname";?></td> <?PHP foreach ($activities as $activity){ /*Sample query $getactivities = mysql_query("SELECT activity FROM activities"); WHILE($gtactivities = mysql_fetch_array($getactivities)){ $activity=$gtactivities['activity']; */ echo "<td>$activity";?> <input type="checkbox" name="<?php echo "$activity";?>[<?php echo "$stuID";?>]" value="yes" /> </td> <?PHP } echo "</tr>"; } ?> <tr> <td colspan="<?php echo "$arraycount2";?>"><input type="submit" name="submit2" value="Submit" /></td> </tr> </table> </form> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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