I created a database with 3 tables being spusername, splocation, sprecord. spusername has id, splocation_id, lastname, firstname. I want to be able to have a drop down menu that has pulled id, lastname, firstname from the database, and within the pulldown it only shows a list of all the names being lastname,firstname. then once I select a person I have another drop down that has types of training in it. then when I hit submit it will generate a record in another table with the persons id and training record. so when I do a search it will pull up the user and the training records for that person.... I have already created a submit page in a .php that sends lastname, firstname, splocation_id for new users and I think I can create a search that does what I want it to, but I have never made a data entry doing a pulldown that has values generated from the database.
EDIT Code: With help from Vegard's coding I got this, and now it works great after a few trial and errors. Thank You!
Code:
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['Submit'])) {
$sql = "INSERT INTO $db_table(spusername_id,sptraining_id) values ('".mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_REQUEST['spusername_id']))."','".mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_REQUEST['sptraining_id']))."')";
if($result = mysql_query($sql ,$db)) {
echo '<h1>Thank you</h1>Your information has been entered into the database<br><br>';
} else {
echo "ERROR: ".mysql_error();
}
} else {
?>
<h1>Add Training Information To Database</h1><hr>
<br><br>
<form method="post" action="">
<select name="spusername_id">
<option value="default">Select Employee</option>
<?php
include("connectspusers.php"); /*file where you have stored your DB conn. settings*/
$result = mysql_query('SELECT id, lastname, firstname FROM spusername ORDER BY lastname ASC') or die (mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<option value="' . $row['id'] . ' ' . $row['lastname'] . ' ' . $row['firstname'] . '">' . $row['lastname'] . ', ' . $row['firstname'] . '</option>';
}
?>
</select>
<select name="sptraining_id">
<option value="default">Select Training</option>
<?php
include("connectsptraining.php"); /*file where you have stored your DB conn. settings*/
$result = mysql_query('SELECT id, trainingtype, level FROM sptraining ORDER BY level ASC') or die (mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<option value="' . $row['id'] . ' ' . $row['trainingtype'] . ' ' . $row['level'] . '">' . $row['trainingtype'] . ' - ' . $row['level'] . '</option>';
}
?>
</select>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<?php
}
?>