hawkontvn Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 hey need some help here created a dropdown menu populated by a 'category'-table from my database. code: <?php $query = "SELECT categoryID AS ci, categoryName AS cn FROM category ORDER BY categoryName"; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $id = $row['ci']; $cat = $row['cn']; $options.="<option value='$id'>".$cat."</option>"; } ?> <form method="get" action="/biblio/"> <select name="showcat"> <option value=""> Choose category <?=$options?> </option> </select> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </form> Now the dropdown menu is working, but im trying to have it print out all books in the particular category i selected. Code so far: <?php $list_cats = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM category ORDER BY categoryName;"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($list_cats)) { $cid = $row['categoryID']; $cname = $row['categoryName']; } if($_GET['showcat']) { $cid = $_GET['showcat']; $cname = $_GET['showcat']; echo "<br /><p><b>Books in picked category:</b></p>"; $query = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE categoryName = $cname"; $res = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) { $cid = $row['categoryID']; $cname = $row['categoryName']; } } ?> Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/201667-help-with-dropdown-menu-search/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy_Funster Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Your form's a little wrong. Try changing to this: <?php $query = "SELECT categoryID AS ci, categoryName AS cn FROM category ORDER BY categoryName"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error()); echo '<form method="get" action="/biblio/">'; echo '<select name="showcat">'; echo'<option value="">Choose category</option> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $id = $row['ci']; $cat = $row['cn']; echo'<option value="'.$id.'">'.$cat.'</option>'; } echo '</select>' echo '<input type="submit" value="Search" />' echo'</form>' ?> Also never open php tags with just <? it's not common for modern servers to support short tags for php so as a best practice you should always use <?php to open them. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/201667-help-with-dropdown-menu-search/#findComment-1058130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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