Dynamic Radio Buttons & Multiple Action Buttons to Modify Database Contents

HurricaneDigital · May 25, 2010

All the add/remove/modify/display functions are now working for my little Customer Call Tracker web app thanks to the help of a few others on this site.

Currently to manipulate the data after it has been entered I have 3 separate form fields to paste/type in a work order number which is then sent on to the del/modify/call scripts. What I would like to do is have radio buttons down the first column to select an entry and then have all the modifier buttons in one location. I managed to get the radio buttons to show up, but there would need to be some way to dynamically assign name/value to it so that it passes the proper data on to the following script.

Here is the current code for the view page:

<html>
<title>Customer Call Tracker - Dashboard</title>
<body>
<br>
<form>
<input type="button" onclick="window.location.href='form.php'" value="Add Record"></input>
</form>

<form action="del.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="work_order" />
<input type="submit" value="Picked Up" />
</form>

<form action="modify.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="work_order" />
<input type="submit" value="Modify" />
</form>

<form action="call.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="work_order" />
<input type="submit" value="Call" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$username="xxxxxx";
$password="xxxxxx";
$database="xxxxxx";
$con=mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }
mysql_select_db($database, $con);

$query="SELECT *, ((CURDATE() - date_last_called) > call_frequency) AS call_today FROM call_tracker ORDER BY call_today DESC, date_last_called ASC";
$result=mysql_query($query);

$i = 0;
$radio='<input type="radio" name="radio" />';
echo "<table border='1'>\n
<tr>\n
<th>Select</th>\n
<th>Store</th>\n
<th>Work Order</th>\n
<th>Customer Name</th>\n
<th>Contact Number</th>\n
<th>Date Last Called</th>\n
<th>Call Frequency</th>\n
<th>Call Today</th>\n
<th>Notes</th>\n
</tr>\n";

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result) or die(mysql_error()))  
{  
$style=((++$i % 2) == 0) ? 'style="background-color:#BFC8FF"' : 'style="background-color:#AAB2E2"';
$style=($row['call_today'] == 1) ? 'style="background-color:#007F0E;color:#FFFFFF"' : $style;
$call=($row['call_today'] == 1) ? 'Yes' : 'No';
echo "<tr $style>\n"
	. "<td>" . $radio . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['location'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['work_order'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['customer_name'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['contact_number'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['date_last_called'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['call_frequency'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $call . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['notes'] . "</td>\n"
	. "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
?>

I'm not sure how to add the <form> etc. so that you can use the three options from the set of radio buttons, but I'm thinking it would be along the lines of:

$radio='<input type="radio" name="$somevariable" value="['work_order']"/>';
echo "<form><table border='1'>\n
<tr>\n
<th>Select</th>\n
<th>Store</th>\n
<th>Work Order</th>\n
<th>Customer Name</th>\n
<th>Contact Number</th>\n
<th>Date Last Called</th>\n
<th>Call Frequency</th>\n
<th>Call Today</th>\n
<th>Notes</th>\n
</tr>\n";

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result) or die(mysql_error()))  
{  
$style=((++$i % 2) == 0) ? 'style="background-color:#BFC8FF"' : 'style="background-color:#AAB2E2"';
$style=($row['call_today'] == 1) ? 'style="background-color:#007F0E;color:#FFFFFF"' : $style;
$call=($row['call_today'] == 1) ? 'Yes' : 'No';
echo "<tr $style>\n"
	. "<td>" . $radio . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['location'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['work_order'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['customer_name'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['contact_number'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['date_last_called'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['call_frequency'] . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $call . "</td>\n"
	. "<td>" . $row['notes'] . "</td>\n"
	. "</tr>\n";
}
echo 
"</table>\n"
"</form>\n";      
?>

I've found a few similar solutions using JavaScript, but I want to see if it would possible to do it just with PHP to simplify things. Any help would be appreciated.

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