lanceox Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Hi guys, Im developing a stock system and so far new stock and can be added with the quantity, however im trying to update the stock by using a select box and selecting the type of stock and inputting a new qty. the form and everything is set up and i can select files from the database, however i dont know how to update files from a select box The code i got so far is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>stock manager</title> </head> <body> <?php $stockqty =&$_POST['stock_qty1']; ?> <center> <table> <td> <table> <td> <form action='stockview.php' method='POST'> Please Enter a Stock Name and Stock Value <table> <tr> <td> Stock Name: </td> <td> <input name="stock_name" type="text" /><BR /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Stock Qty: </td> <td> <input name="stock_qty" type="text" /> </td> </tr> </table> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Add New Stock Items" /> </form> </td> </table> </td> <td> <table> <td> <form action='stockmanager.php' method='POST' enctype="multipart/form-data"> Please Select from the list the item you wish to update <table> <tr> <td> Stock Name: </td> <td> <?php $connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root", "") or die ("Couldn't Connect!"); mysql_select_db("stock", $connect) or die("Couldn't find db"); // select database $query=("SELECT id, stockname FROM stocks"); $result = mysql_query ($query); echo "<select name=stock value=''>Edit Stock QTY</option>"; while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { //Array or records stored in $nt echo "<option value=$nt[id]>$nt[stockname]</option>"; /* Option values are added by looping through the array */ } $queryreg = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM stocks WHERE stockqty='$stockqty'"); $numrows = mysql_num_rows($queryreg); $update = mysql_query("UPDATE stocks SET stockqty='$stockqty' WHERE stockname = '$stockname'"); echo("Its updated"); ?> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Stock Qty: </td> <td> <input name="stock_qty1" type="text" /> </td> </tr> </table> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Update stock items" /> </form> </td> </table> </td> </table> </center> </body> </html> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Lance Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236303-how-to-update-values-database-using-select-box/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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