I haven't designed a website for about 3 years now, so I am quite rusty to say the least. I have to fall back on Dreamweaver CS5 to help me out. Right...
I want a page for news, and the user/customer will select from a dropdown menu the date (JAN, FEB, MAR, APR etc...) Now, I have a table in my mySQL database called 'news' where each row is referenced by these dates. I have already set up a Dynamic List for the date (a dropdown list.)
What I want is for the customer to select the date from the dropdown, and for the results to show in a Recordset underneath. I am assuming that the SQL query needs to be wrote something along the lines of:
SELECT date, subject, message FROM news WHERE date = $ XXXXXDROPDOWNLIST XXX $
As you can see, I made the last line up because I can't quite grasp how it should function. I am thinking that the dropdown list needs to be in a form which will POST and the table of results needs to be in a form which will GET.
Could somebody more technical than me please enlighten my dillema?
Thanks, Rob.
Code
mysql_select_db($database_rcc, $rcc);
$query_dropdowndate = "SELECT DATE_FORMAT(date, '%M %Y') AS FORMATTEDDATE FROM news GROUP BY FORMATTEDDATE ORDER BY Date DESC ";
$dropdowndate = mysql_query($query_dropdowndate, $rcc) or die(mysql_error());
$row_dropdowndate = mysql_fetch_assoc($dropdowndate);
$totalRows_dropdowndate = mysql_num_rows($dropdowndate);
mysql_select_db($database_rcc, $rcc);
$query_newsitems = "SELECT `Date`, Subject, Message FROM news WHERE date = $_POST['dropdowndate']";
$newsitems = mysql_query($query_newsitems, $rcc) or die(mysql_error());
$row_newsitems = mysql_fetch_assoc($newsitems);
$totalRows_newsitems = mysql_num_rows($newsitems);
?>
<form id="choosedate" name="choosedate" method="post" action="#">
<label for="dropdowndate"></label>
<select name="dropdowndate" id="dropdowndate">
<?php
do {
?>
<option value="<?php echo $row_dropdowndate['FORMATTEDDATE']?>"<?php if (!(strcmp($row_dropdowndate['FORMATTEDDATE'], $row_dropdowndate['FORMATTEDDATE']))) {echo "selected=\"selected\"";} ?>><?php echo $row_dropdowndate['FORMATTEDDATE']?></option>
<?php
} while ($row_dropdowndate = mysql_fetch_assoc($dropdowndate));
$rows = mysql_num_rows($dropdowndate);
if($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($dropdowndate, 0);
$row_dropdowndate = mysql_fetch_assoc($dropdowndate);
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<p> </p>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td>Date</td>
<td>Subject</td>
<td>Message</td>
</tr>
<?php do { ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row_newsitems['Date']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_newsitems['Subject']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_newsitems['Message']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } while ($row_newsitems = mysql_fetch_assoc($newsitems)); ?>
Some of this may look weird so let me explain... The dynamic list (dropdown) is called 'dropdowndate' and the form is called 'choosedate' There is a button called 'submit' to submit the form. FORMATTEDDATE is the name given to the recordset which gives the dropdown menu a dynamic list.
I want the value from that dynamic list when user's POST, to insert into the query as i mentioned ... SELECT Date, Subject, Message FROM news WHERE date = $_POST['dropdowndate']"; (THIS BIT IS PROBABLY WRONG)
Rob
