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issue with category and subcategory fields which are displaying numbers instead of names

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i have a page where i add products to my database. the products category and subcategory are stored as numbers when added. see attachment 1 below

 

when i query any product by id, numbers instead of names are displayed - attachment 2

 

i dnt know why it is not displaying the name assigned to the numbers

 

please help

 

here is my code on my php page

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Delete Product</title>
 
<link href="CSS/del_prod.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
function reload(form)
{
var val=form.prod_id.options[form.prod_id.options.selectedIndex].value;
//var description1=form.description.value;
self.location='del_upd_prod.php?prod_id=' + val;
//+'&description=' +description1;
}
 
</script>
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
<?php
 
include('db_connect.php');
 
@$prod_id=$_GET['prod_id'];
//@$description=$_GET['description'];
 
//$id = rtrim($_GET['id']);
 
$query=mysql_query("select prod_id from tbl_product");
 
$query1=mysql_query("select prod_name, prod_brand, prod_desc, prod_price, cat, subcat, prod_w_c, prod_photo from tbl_product where prod_id='$prod_id'");
 
$row=mysql_fetch_array($query1);
 
?>
 
<div id="stylized" class="myform">
 
<form id="form" name="del_prod" method="post">
 
<h2 align="center"><b>- Delete / Update Product -</b></h2>
 
<table width="1000" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product ID</div></td>
    <td>
    <?PHP 
 
echo "<select name='prod_id' onchange=\"reload(this.form)\"><option value=''>select one</option>";
while($row1 = mysql_fetch_array ($query)) { 
if($row1['0']==@$prod_id){echo "<option selected value='".$row1['0']."'>".$row1['0']."</option>";}
else{echo  "<option value=\"".$row1['0']."\">".$row1['0']."</option>";}
}
echo "</select>";
?>
    
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Name</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="prod_name" id="prod_name" value = "<?PHP print $row['prod_name']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Brand</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="prod_brand" id="prod_brand" value = "<?PHP print $row['prod_brand']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Description</div></td>
    <td><textarea name="prod_desc" id="prod_desc" cols="45" rows="5"><?PHP print $row['prod_desc']; ?></textarea></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Price (MRU)</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="prod_price" id="prod_price" value = "<?PHP print $row['prod_price'] ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Category</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="cat" id="cat" value = "<?PHP print $row['cat']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Subcategory</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="subcat" id="subcat" value = "<?PHP print $row['subcat']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Product Weight/Capacity</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="prod_w_c" id="prod_w_c" value = "<?PHP print $row['prod_w_c']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="right">Uploaded Photo Path</div></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="prod_photo" id="prod_photo" value = "<?PHP print $row['prod_photo']; ?>"/></td>
  </tr>
</table>
 
<p align="center">
  <input type="submit" class="button" name="delete" id="delete" value="<-- Delete product -->" />
  <input type="submit" class="button" name="update" id="update" value="<-- Update product -->" />
</p>
 
</form>
 
</div>
 
</body>
</html>

 

 

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well... if you are not looking for a matching record of those category/subcategory numbers in the table that could contain them how are you expecting to get a different result   of what you have now?

 

do you have a category/subcategory table or not?

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