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alanl1
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Hi Professionals

 

I have the following 2 pages, in the welcome.php I am trying to retreive the TowerSelect drop downs value to echo in the page but it is only showing  TowerSelect not the actual value.

 

Where could I be going wrong

 

 

thanks

 

 

<html>
</body>
<form action="welcome.php" method="POST">
Please select the manufacturer you wish to report on. </br></br>

<select name="TowerSelect"><option> Choose </option>

<?php
 
$server='d3licsql02';
$connectinfo=array("Database"=>"TestData", "UID" => "sa", "PWD" => "SECRET");

//connect to DB
$conn=sqlsrv_connect($server,$connectinfo);
 
if( $conn === false ) {
    die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

$sql = "SELECT distinct software_manufacturer FROM softusecomp";
$sql1 = "SELECT distinct software_manufacturer, product,product_version,path FROM softusecomp";
$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql);

if( $stmt === false) {
   die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true) );
}

while( $row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC) ) {

echo "<option value=";
echo "'".$row['software_manufacturer']."'";
echo ">";
echo $row['software_manufacturer'];
echo "</option>";

}

sqlsrv_free_stmt( $stmt);

?>
</select>
  <input type="submit" value="Search">
</br></br>
</form>
</body></html>

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<html>
</body>
<form action="filter.php" method="POST">
Report for -Insert manufacturer name here-. </br></br>
TowerSelect

<?php

 
$server='d3licsql02';
$connectinfo=array("Database"=>"TestData", "UID" => "sa", "PWD" => "SECRET");

//connect to DB
$conn=sqlsrv_connect($server,$connectinfo);
 
if( $conn === false ) {
    die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

$manufacturer_name = $_GET['TowerSelect'];

echo $manufacturer_name;

$sql = "SELECT top 100 software_manufacturer, product,product_version,path FROM softusecomp where software_manufacturer = 'Microsoft Corporation'";
$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql);

if( $stmt === false) {
   die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true) );
}

while( $row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC) ) {

echo $row['software_manufacturer'].", ".$row['product'].", ".$row['product_version'].", ".$row['path']."<br />";

}

sqlsrv_free_stmt( $stmt);

?>

  <input type="submit" value="filter">
</br></br>
</form>
</body></html>

Edited by alanl1
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Please put your code in code blocks (identified by the "<>" icon on the top) and seperate them by file. Also, please only show relevant code.

 

Looking at your code real quickly I noticed there is a difference in methods. Both <forms> have method="POST" but you are using $_GET['towerSelect']. might I suggest that you perform most of your PHP (including ESPECIALLY queries) above the HTML. This code is really hard to read.

 

Also, is error reporting turned on?

Edited by DaveyK
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