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November 7th, 2002, 01:21 AM

littleblackdog

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Array question -

I've been knocking my head over this for some time. Here is what I have...

a table contianing information for a library. set up with : title, author, pub. ( all varchar input by a form - these three are input from textfield ), then I have : mediatype and subject columns that are ( char, input by radio buttons so I know what is being input... for mediatype only "Book or Textbook or Magazine" is being input in the column ) ...What I am trying to do is display rows in the database by title from a query - easy.

What I'm having trouble with is calling for specific data. I want users to be able to query the db for two conditions:

1. from a form with radio buttons for all the mediatypes, so the click the book button,then..
2. for a key word in the db for any rows ( books only!) that contain the key word.

I also am having trouble displaying all rows that are books.

I wouldn't be having this problem if I made all the media types their own columns in the db, but I didn't.

Is this where Assoc_array comes in?

I've been searching tutorials, books, all over for an example of this, but to no success.

Help

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November 7th, 2002, 08:38 AM

fatal

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PHP Code:


		
			
 $sql = "SELECT books FROM table where mediatype='php'";

$results = mysql_query( $sql, $connect);

while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results))

{

   $books = $row['books'];

   echo $books;

}

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Hopefully that piece will work.

Last edited by fatal : November 7th, 2002 at 08:45 AM.

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