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got it all fixed now with the help of the algorithm you posted..thank you so much for your help..

i am currently developing a voting system for a school project using dreamweaver.. on my vote page, i use checkboxes to select/vote a number of candidates. i want to automatically add/count the total tally and update my database upon submission of votes. since im new to php, all my codes are generated by dreamweaver..and dreamweaver doesn't have a function for handling multiple row update on database. can anyone please help with editing this code to make it work for my system? thanks in advance <?php require_once('Connections/organizazone_db.php'); ?> <?php if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) { function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") { if (PHP_VERSION < 6) { $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue; } $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue); switch ($theType) { case "text": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "long": case "int": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL"; break; case "double": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL"; break; case "date": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "defined": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue; break; } return $theValue; } } $editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); } if ((isset($_POST["MM_update"])) && ($_POST["MM_update"] == "form1")) { $updateSQL = sprintf("UPDATE tbl_candidates SET votecount=%s WHERE user_id=%s", GetSQLValueString(isset($_POST['vote[]']) ? "true" : "", "defined","1","0"), GetSQLValueString($_POST['user[]'], "text")); mysql_select_db($database_organizazone_db, $organizazone_db); $Result1 = mysql_query($updateSQL, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db($database_organizazone_db, $organizazone_db); $query_rs_candi = "SELECT * FROM tbl_candidates"; $rs_candi = mysql_query($query_rs_candi, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); $row_rs_candi = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_candi); $totalRows_rs_candi = mysql_num_rows($rs_candi); $query_rs_candi = "SELECT * FROM tbl_candidates"; $rs_candi = mysql_query($query_rs_candi, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); $row_rs_candi = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_candi); $totalRows_rs_candi = mysql_num_rows($rs_candi); ?> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="POST" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>"> <table border="1"> <tr> <td> </td> <td>user_id</td> <td>votecount</td> </tr> <?php do { ?> <tr> <td><input name="vote[]" type="checkbox" id="vote[]" value="1" /> <label for="vote[]"></label></td> <td><label for="user[]"></label> <input name="user[]" type="text" id="user[]" value="<?php echo $row_rs_candi['user_id']; ?>" /></td> <td><?php echo $row_rs_candi['votecount']; ?></td> </tr> <?php } while ($row_rs_candi = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_candi)); ?> </table> <br /> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="MM_update" value="form1" /> </form> <?php mysql_free_result($rs_candi); ?>

im developing a voting system where you can vote for multiple choices using checkboxes.. upon submitting the vote form, votecounts must automatically be updated.. values for votecount will come from the checkbox value 1. ive been having a hard time trying to figure out hot to update multiple rows with checkbox values..any help would be appreciated..thanks in advance! here's the code: $editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); } if ((isset($_POST["MM_update"])) && ($_POST["MM_update"] == "form_vote")) $i=1;{ while ($i<= $totalRows_rs_candi) { $updateSQL = "UPDATE tbl_candidates SET votecount={$_POST['votecount']} WHERE user_id={$_POST['candi']}"; mysql_select_db($database_organizazone_db, $organizazone_db); $Result1 = mysql_query($updateSQL, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); $i++; } if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $updateGoTo = "vote_success.php"; } header(sprintf("Location: %s", $updateGoTo)); } <form id="form_vote" name="form_vote" method="POST" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>"> <table border="1"> <tr> <td> </td> <td>user_id</td> <td>l_name</td> <td>course_id</td> <td>yearlevel</td> <td>about</td> </tr> <?php $i=1; do { ?> <tr> <td><span id="sprycheckbox1"> <input name="votecount[<?php echo $i ?>]" type="checkbox" id="votecount" value="1" /> <span class="checkboxMinSelectionsMsg">Minimum number of selections not met.</span></span> <label for="votecount[]"></label></td> <td><label for="candi"></label> <input name="candi" type="text" disabled="disabled" id="candi" value="<?php echo $row_rs_candi['user_id']; ?>" readonly="readonly" /></td> <td><?php echo $row_rs_candi['l_name'].' ,'.$row_rs_candi['f_name'].' '.$row_rs_candi['m_name']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $row_rs_candi['course_id']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $row_rs_candi['yearlevel']; ?></td> <td><?php echo $row_rs_candi['about_me']; ?></td> </tr> <?php $i++; ?> <?php } while ($row_rs_candi = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_candi)); ?> </table>

yeah..that's what i did.. figured out that the problem was with the datatype of the election_id column on my database..it was on int when it was supposed to be a varchar.. got it working now..thank you so much for your help..

wrapping my variable with quotes actually inserted two(2) new rows to my database..one with zero "0" value,and another with "2011" value

@david.. yes. my column name is correct.. @muddy_funster.. i did wrap it in quotes and it inserted a data into my database..but it only stored "2011". it did not include the "-2012" --almost there!

here i am again... so i have this algorithm that computes the current academic year for our school.. it outputs the correct academic year on a browser.. but when i try to insert it into my database, the data inserted goes wrong.. it just keeps on inserting -1 instead of the string 2011-2012 here's my code: <?php $year = date('Y'); $currentyear = $year; $lastyear = $year - 1; $nextyear = $year + 1; if (date('m') < 6) { $current_ay = $lastyear."-".$currentyear; } else if (date('m') >= 6) { $current_ay = $currentyear."-".$nextyear; } echo $current_ay; $insertSQL = "INSERT INTO tbl_elections (election_id) values ($current_ay)"; mysql_select_db($database_organizazone_db, $organizazone_db); $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); ?> *the database column to be inserted into is of varchar data type

whew... so that's just it?! finally got it right.. thank's a lot!!

it said: unexpected T_STRING in C:\xampp\htdocs\ABEOrgzone\elections\election.php i've successfully inserted a data with similar code earlier..but the data it stored on my database was -1 instead of the year 2012

hi there..im new to php mysql and im having trouble inserting a string data to mysql from a php date() function. here's my code: $year = date('Y'); echo $year; $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO tbl_elections (election_id=$year)"); mysql_select_db($database_organizazone_db, $organizazone_db); $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $organizazone_db) or die(mysql_error()); when i try to output the $year variable on a webpage, it returns "2012" but when i try to insert this data into my database table, it returns an error like this: check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '=2012)' is there a way to convert "2012" into a normal string data type?