[SOLVED] radio buttons to store data in mysql database

[phpapprentice]

Please Help...

 

How can I store data from radio button into mysql database?

I want to store TRUE or FALSE into field1(IHE Personnel), field2(K-12 Personnel) , field3(Scholar).

If IHE Personnel is selected, i want TRUE to be stored in field1, and it will store FALSE for both field2 and field3.

 

This is my form

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Who are you?

<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="true" />IHE Personnel

<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="true" /> K-12 Personnel

<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="true" /> Scholar

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phpapprentice

 

[F1Fan]

You will need logic before you insert/update the DB table. This logic should assign all variables to FALSE, except the one that was selected. So, you'll need to change the values of each radio button to the field for each selection.

 

Like this:

<?php
$fields['field1'] = false;
$fields['field2'] = false;
$fields['field3'] = false;
$fields[$_POST['personnel']] = true;
// do whatever with your DB...
?>

 

Then radio buttons:

<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="field1" />IHE Personnel
<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="field2" /> K-12 Personnel
<input type="radio" name="personnel" value="field3" /> Scholar

[phpapprentice]

this is my insert.php. there is an error.

Error: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

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<?php

$con = mysql_connect("localhost","mydatabase","mypassword");

if (!$con)

  {

  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());

  }mysql_select_db("noyce", $con);

 

 

$fields['field1'] = false;

$fields['field2'] = false;

$fields['field3'] = false;

$fields[$_POST['personnel']] = true;

 

 

 

  $sql="INSERT INTO people (FirstName, LastName, field1, field2, field3)

VALUES

('$_POST[FirstName]','$_POST[LastName]',$fields)";if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))

  {

  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());

  }

echo "1 record added";mysql_close($con)

?>

[F1Fan]

That's because SQL doesn't know PHP. You're trying to insert a raw array.

 

Do this:

<?php
$sql="INSERT INTO people (FirstName, LastName, field1, field2, field3) VALUES ('{$_POST['FirstName']}', '{$_POST['LastName']}', {$fields['field1']}, {$fields['field2']}, {$fields['field3']})";
?>

Also, I corrected a little of the syntax.

[phpapprentice]

thank you very much.

it works.

It stores 0 and 1,

How can I make those 0 and 1 to FALSE and TRUE

 

mysql> select * from people;

+----+----------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+

| id | LastName | FirstName | field1 | field2 | field3 |

+----+----------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+

|  1 | Smith    | Will        |  NULL |  NULL |  NULL |

|  2 |            |              |  NULL |  NULL |  NULL |

|  3 | Poe      | Fernando  |  NULL |  NULL |  NULL |

|  4 | Moore  | Stacey    |      1 |      0  |      0  |

+----+----------+-----------+--------+--------+--------+

 

 

 

 

 

this is the code that works(just the brackets, i removed them.)

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$sql="INSERT INTO people (FirstName, LastName, field1, field2, field3) VALUES ('$_POST[FirstName]','$_POST[LastName]','$fields[field1]', '$fields[field2]', '$fields[field3]')";

[F1Fan]

What data type are those fields?

[phpapprentice]

boolean

[F1Fan]

I guess that's just how it returns it, or that's how MySQL does Boolean. I don't use MySQL very often, so I'm not sure. In any case, you should be able to just convert it on extraction.

[phpapprentice]

OKAY, thanks a lot

 

PROBLEM SOLVED