I'm having difficulty populating a select box within a form to display existing "forenames" of nurses from the "Nurses" table. Could anyone tell me what Im doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
Here is the form
<form method="post" action="insert.php">
<br>
<tr><td align="left"><strong>Nurse Information</strong></td>
</td>
<tr>
<td>nurse_name</td>
<td><select name="valuelist">
<option value="valuelist" name="nurse_name" value='<?php echo $nurse_name; ?>'></option>
</select></td>
<tr>
The QUERY which should populate the nurse_forename:
<html><head><title>Connect to Database</title></head><body>
<font size="4">Query gets Forename of nurse</font>
<br><br><font size="4">Choose a name</font><br><br>
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<select name="valuelist">;
<?php
$value=$_POST ["valuelist"];
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","") or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("a&e", $con) or die('Could not select database.');
$fetch_nurse_name = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT $nurse_name FROM nurse");
$result = mysqli_query($con, $query) or die("Invalid query");
while($throw_nurse_name = mysqli_fetch_array($fetch_nurse_name)) {
echo '<option value=\"'.$nurse_name['nurse_name'].'">'.$throw_nurse_name['nurse_name'].'</option>';
}
echo "</select>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form></body></html>
Try this:
<html><head><title>Connect to Database</title></head><body>
<font size="4">Query gets Forename of nurse</font>
<br><br><font size="4">Choose a name</font><br><br>
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<select name="valuelist">;
<?php
$value=$_POST ["valuelist"];
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","") or die('Could not connect:'.mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("a&e", $con) or die('Could not select database.');
$fetch_nurse_name = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT Forename FROM nurse");
while($throw_nurse_name = mysql_fetch_array($fetch_nurse_name)) {
echo '<option value=\"'.$throw_nurse_name[0].'">'.$throw_nurse_name[0].'</option>';
}
echo "</select>";
?>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form></body></html>
Dont use mysql and mysqli together....you should use mysqli or PDO, but not a mix of both ;)
PS: Edited ;)
Saludos.
Apologies if this duplicates other answers, Here's an answer using mysql_ syntax although you should of course be using mysqli_ or PDO for this...
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<select name="valuelist">;
<?php
//path to connection statements
include('path/to/connection/stateme.nts');
//fetch nurse name
$query = "SELECT nurse_name FROM nurse;";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); //note: use mysql_error() for development only
//print results
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo '<option value=\"'.$row['nurse_name'].'">'.$row['nurse_name'].'</option>';
}
echo "</select>";
?>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
Check your MySQL table and column name that you using. Sometimes it does not work if you don't write those names exactly which in your MySQL table. suppose,
$query = "SELECT nurse_name FROM nurse";
in above SQL if MySQL table name is 'NURSE' and column name is 'NURSE_NAME' then write exactly like this.
$query = "SELECT NURSE_NAME FROM NURSE";
So, you look that sometime MySQL table, column name work in case sensitive.
