psyion Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 here is my problem, i'm need to randomly pick 15 names from a table call student and store them to another table call temp_classhere is the random partSELECT nameFROM studentORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 15but than how do i send this 15 names to temp_class????? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4363-help~-how-pick-few-things-and-insert-to-another-table/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyion Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 can some one help me please... i've been stuck here for roughly 2 days i'll be happy if some one can help me... below are the code generate by Dreamweaver about showing a repeted table showing all the 15 randomly pick name and a text field that submit new name... can some one help me modify or show where i can get more example.<?php require_once('../Connections/activity.php'); ?><?phpfunction GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") { $theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : $theValue; switch ($theType) { case "text": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "long": case "int": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL"; break; case "double": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "date": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "defined": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue; break; } return $theValue;}$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);}if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) { $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO temp_class (temp_name) VALUES (%s)", GetSQLValueString($_POST['temp_name'], "text")); mysql_select_db($database_activity, $activity); $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $activity) or die(mysql_error()); $insertGoTo = "untitled.php"; if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?"; $insertGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; } header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));}mysql_select_db($database_activity, $activity);$query_rand_pick = "SELECT student.name FROM student ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 15";$rand_pick = mysql_query($query_rand_pick, $activity) or die(mysql_error());$row_rand_pick = mysql_fetch_assoc($rand_pick);$totalRows_rand_pick = mysql_num_rows($rand_pick);?><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><title>Untitled Document</title></head><body><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td>name</td> </tr> <?php do { ?> <tr> <td><?php echo $row_rand_pick['name']; ?></td> </tr> <?php } while ($row_rand_pick = mysql_fetch_assoc($rand_pick)); ?></table><p> </p><p> </p><form method="post" name="form1" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>"> <table align="center"> <tr valign="baseline"> <td nowrap align="right">Temp_name:</td> <td><input type="text" name="temp_name" value="" size="32"></td> </tr> <tr valign="baseline"> <td nowrap align="right"> </td> <td><input type="submit" value="Insert record"></td> </tr> </table> <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1"></form><p> </p><p> </p></body></html><?phpmysql_free_result($rand_pick);?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4363-help~-how-pick-few-things-and-insert-to-another-table/#findComment-15274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greycap Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 [!--quoteo(post=352614:date=Mar 7 2006, 03:01 PM:name=psyion)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(psyion @ Mar 7 2006, 03:01 PM) [snapback]352614[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]here is my problem, i'm need to randomly pick 15 names from a table call student and store them to another table call temp_classhere is the random partSELECT nameFROM studentORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 15but than how do i send this 15 names to temp_class?????[/quote][code]INSERT INTO temp_class ( SELECT * FROM student ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 15)[/code]Also, in that code you posted, you cant use strings in a switch() statement. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4363-help~-how-pick-few-things-and-insert-to-another-table/#findComment-15276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyion Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 thanks alot... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/4363-help~-how-pick-few-things-and-insert-to-another-table/#findComment-15294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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