Hi guys,
It's been a while since I coded in PHP (some 10 years or so). Now I need a web application and thought, I resource to my old talents but I think, I failed miserably :-)
Here's the problem:
I want the user to enter an item number and click a button to select the record from the products table.
Once the - I call it "Getit" - button is clicked, the second form containing the record data should be rendered.
So far, so good. However, although all variables show their correct values to render the second form, it just refuses to render. Right now, I have mental block and need some help, please.
If you want to look at the app, here is the url : http://farbeyondrails.net/catalog/maintenance/edit_article.php
Here is the code in question:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Maintenance</title>
<link href="../layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="../styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<?php
require('../php/helper.php');
db_connect(); // Datenbank-Verbindung
get_config();
$sql = '';
$arr_radio = array();
$arr_select = array();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM gauges";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if($result){
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $result ) )
{
$i = $row['id'];
$wert = $row['gauge'];
$arr_radio[$i] = $wert;
}
$gauge_anz = count($arr_radio);
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM categories";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if($result){
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$i = $row['id'];
$wert = $row['range'];
$arr_select[$i] = $wert;
}
$sel_anz = count($arr_select);
//echo $sel_anz.' Elemente in $sel_anz';
}
echo '
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"
<div id="fbr-logo">
<a href="http://farbeyondrails.net/" title="Back to home page"><img src="../'.$logo.'" /></a>
</div> <!-- End fbr-logo -->
<div id="header-grafik">
<img src="../'.$header_grafik.'" alt="FBR-Grafik" />
</div>
<div id="fl-grafik">
<img src="../../tl_files/fbr/images/site/FL_logo.jpg" alt="FL-Logo"/>
<img src="../../tl_files/fbr/images/site/roco_logo.jpg" alt="Roco-Logo"/>
</div>
</div>
<div id="inhalt">
<div id="left" class="nav">
<h2>Navigation</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="../index.php" title="Back to catalog">Front-End</a></li>
<li><strong>--- System ---</strong></li>
<li><a href="../admin/edit_config.php" title="Edit configuration">Configuration</a></li>
<li><strong>--- Catalog ---</strong></li>
<li><a href="cat_recalc.php" title="Re-calculate catalog with new values">Re-Calculate</a></li>
<li><a href="new_prod.php" title="Add new products">Add new products</a></li>
<li>Edit Catalog Item</li>
<li><strong>--- Customers ---</strong></li>
<li><strong>--- Orders ---</strong></li>
<li><strong>--- Payments ---</strong></li>
<li><strong>--- Shipments ---</strong></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="main">';
echo '
<div class="center-title"><h1>Fleischmann / Roco Catalog - Maintenance</h1></div>
<div class="center-title"><h2>Edit a specific catalog item</h2></div>';
// SQL - string
// Test sql string
echo 'SQL before main form: '.$sql.'<br/>';
echo ' Value isset($_POST["update"]) : '.isset($_POST['update']).'<br/>';
echo ' Value isset($_POST["submit"]) : '.isset($_POST['submit']).'<br/>';
if(!isset($_POST['update']) && isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE item_no='".$item_no."'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if(result)
{
// Test
echo '<br/>$result = '.$result.'<br/>';
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
// Form for data record here
if($item_no != 0 && $_POST['gesendet'])
{
echo '
<form method="POST" action="'.$PHP_SELF.'">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Item No.:</td><td><input type="text" name="item_no" size="6" value="'.$item_no.'" readonly="readonly" /> Brand : <input type="text" title="Enter the abbreviation for the brand" name="brand" size="2" maxlength="2" value="'.$row['brand'].'" /> Brand : <input type="text" title="Enter the abbreviation for availability:<br/>
√ (ALT+2+5+1),N,L,D" name="avail" size="1" maxlength="1" value="'.$row['avail'].'"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gauge:</td><td>';
for($i=1;$i < $gauge_anz+1;$i++)
{
if($arr_radio[$i]==$row['scale'])
{
echo'<input type="radio" name="gauge" value = "'.$arr_radio[$i].'" checked="checked" />'.$arr_radio[$i].' ';
}else{
echo'<input type="radio" name="gauge" value = "'.$arr_radio[$i].'"/>'.$arr_radio[$i].' ';
}
}
echo '</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="hidden" name="gesendet" value="1" /><input type="submit" name="update" value="Update" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
';
}else{
}
}else{
echo 'An error occured: '.mysql_error();
}
}
// Test
echo '<br/>SQL string after click on Get IT:'.$sql.'<br/>';
echo 'Var_Dump $_POST: ';var_dump($_POST);
if(!isset($POST['submit']))
{
echo '
<form method="POST">
<p>Item No. : <input type="text" title="Enter the item number to be edited (max. 6 digits)" name="item_no" size="6" maxlength="6" value="0" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" onclick="$item_no=this.form.item_no.value" value="Get it!" /p>
</form>';
}
if(isset($_POST['item_no']))
{
$item_no = $_POST['item-no'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE item_no='".$item_no."'";
echo '<br/>'.$item_no;
}
// Footer
echo '<div id="footer">
<div class="footer-text">©2014 Erhard Baltrusch, Far Beyond Rails,LLC, Florida, USA<br />
Pictures © Modelleisenbahn München Gmbh, München, Germany <br />
All Rights reserved
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="right" class="news-text">
<p>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>'
?>
</body>
</html>
I'm pretty sure, I' missing just a tiny thing - just what I don't see ...
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks in advance
Erhard