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Apr 18, 2008, 11:44 AM

Kaashifv

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I am new to the forums, and i have been using HTMl for quite some time now. I was just wondering, i have a custom pc building form, and as of right now i am using javascript and all the items are stored in the HTML of the BODY tag.

I was wondering if there is a way i can modify the form, and have the pull down items populate from an external database.

eg.
Current

HTML Code:

<table class="cpu_content" width="800" align=center id="table1">
  <tr>
	<td>&nbsp;</td>
	<td></td>
	<td><strong>Qty</strong></td>
	<td><strong>Total</strong></td>
  </tr>
	
  <tr class="lineitem">
  <td>CD-ROM Drives:</td>
  <td>
	<select name="prod_1" class="quoteselect" onchange="updatePrice(1, this.value)">
	 <option value="Select:0" selected>-- Select --</option>
	 <option value="Asus:0">--ASUS-- </option>
	 <option value="Asus52xCD:20.0">Asus 52x CD-ROM Drive ($20.00)</option>
	 <option value="Asus52XDBL:20.0">Asus 52x CD-ROM Drive (Black) ($20.00)</option>
	 <option value="LG:0">--LG--</option>
	 <option value="LG52xCD:20.0">LG 52x CD-ROM Drive ($20.00)</option>
	 <option value="LG52xCDBL:20.0">LG 52x CD-ROM Drive (Black) ($20.00)</option>
	</select>
   </td>
   <td>
	<select name="qty_1" id="qty_1" onchange="calculateSubtotal()">
	 <option value="0">0</option>
	 <option value="1">1</option>
	 <option value="2">2</option>
	 <option value="3">3</option>
	 <option value="4">4</option>
	 <option value="5">5</option>
	 <option value="6">6</option>
	 <option value="7">7</option>
	 <option value="8">8</option>
	 <option value="9">9</option>
	 <option value="10">10</option>
	</select>
   </td>
   <td>
	<input id="st_1" type="text" size="5" class="subtotal" value="0.00" readonly name="T1">
   </td>
</tr>

.....More items here....

...Tax/Shipping/Totals will go here....

So my question would be, how could this code be modified to use a dabase to store the items for the pulldown menus, if this is possible?

I am using 1and1.com for hosting, and i belive they support, PHP, CGI, ASP, and the standard HTML.

I am not quite sure which database to use, but i would think that i would use MYSQL, unless there is a better choice?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for reading!

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Apr 26, 2008, 11:41 PM

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It's simple. Make the page in php and use a mysql db with a table storing the optical drives and their information (one row per drive).

You could use php's foreach function or while function to print each row. It'd look something like this:

Code:

<?php $rows = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM optical_drives"); ?>
<td>
	<select name="prod_1" class="quoteselect" onchange="updatePrice(1, this.value)">
<?php foreach ($rows AS $row) print '	 <option value="'.$row['value'].'">'.$row['name'].'</option>'; ?>
	</select>
</td>

Or this:

Code:

<?php $rows = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM optical_drives"); ?>
<td>
	<select name="prod_1" class="quoteselect" onchange="updatePrice(1, this.value)">
<?php while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rows, MYSQL_ASSOC)) print '	 <option value="'.$row['value'].'">'.$row['name'].'</option>'; ?>
	</select>
</td>

Your mysql table wold be named something like optical_drives and 'value' and 'name' would be the columns storing the data in each row. So each row of the table would store data (name, price, etc.) for each drive offered.

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