cyberangel Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 hi everybody, every time i asked a question here, i got quick and perfect answers. now i am back again with one i have a simple form which updates some fields in a mysql table. everything works fine, am just trying to convert numbers posted through the form into words on the update page and it is not working :'( for example: the form sends score to the update page, it is either 1, 2 or 3 all i want is that if the score on the form page was 1 then it should update the field in the table with the value "Low" if 2 then "Average" if 3 then "High" the reason is that i dont want the user to select 1,2 or 3 and also low, average and high. so i can simply recieve 1,2 or 3 and update 2 fields at the same time. i tried it with elseif, it doesn't work my code is as follows: <? if($_POST['Submit']){ $host="mysql"; $db_user="me"; $db_password="mypassword"; $database="mydb"; mysql_connect($host,$db_user,$db_password); mysql_select_db($database); $result=mysql_query("SELECT id FROM mytable ORDER BY id ASC"); while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){ $name=$_POST["name_".$row[id]]; $lastname=$_POST["lastname_".$row[id]]; $email=$_POST["email_".$row[id]]; $score=$_POST["score_".$row[id]]; // this is where i don't simply want to update the record // with the $_POST, rather convert the number into aplhabets, i.e. 1=Low, 2=Average and 3=High mysql_query("UPDATE mytable SET name='$name', lastname='$lastname', email='$email', score='$score' where id='$row[id]'"); } echo "--- Update Complete ---"; } ?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223432-how-can-i-elseif-here/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 switch ($_POST["score_" . $row['id']]) { case 1: $score = 'Low'; break; case 2: $score = 'Average'; break; case 3: $score = 'High'; break; } The bigger questions are why are you appending a users id onto the end of all your form elements? And why is this all happening within a while loop? In fact why does the SELECT exist at all? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223432-how-can-i-elseif-here/#findComment-1155002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMDE Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 switch($score){ case 1: $scoreresult='low'; break; case 2: $scoreresult='average'; break; case 1: $scoreresult='high'; break; } echo $scoreresult; is the same as if($score==1){ $scoreresult='low'; }elseif($score==2){ $scoreresult='average'; }elseif($score==3){ $scoreresult='high'; } echo $scoreresult; is this what you wanted? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223432-how-can-i-elseif-here/#findComment-1155003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberangel Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 perfect you guys are great Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223432-how-can-i-elseif-here/#findComment-1155006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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