Populate a form using a database.

[griffinwebnet]

Ello All,

I am trying to write an app that acts as a booking system for my dj company, i have a form for new events that inserts the data into a mySQL database. then i have a table that lists all the events on a different page. in that table i have an 'Edit Event' button next to each entry. what i need to do is when i click that button, it will load a form identical to the 'new event' form but populated with the values for that event.

to populate the form i figured id use a script like this:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM field");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo '<form action="">';
  echo '<input type="text" name="client_name" value=".$row['cli-name']">';
  ///Etc, Etc, Etc.
  echo '</form>';
  }

mysql_close($con);
?>

what i dont know is 2 things, how to select the row using that button, and how to set up a select as i have many values to choose from in the select, but how do i make the one in the database the selected one?

Thanks in Advance,
Your help is much appreciated.

-JL Griffin

[griffinwebnet]

I should also add that i am open to a differant way of doing this. If you know a better or more efficient way, please let me know.

Thanks JL Griffin

[liamallan]

are u using a form where the button is to edit?

if u are, u may want to add a hidden field in ur form, which will hold the id of each event eg.

<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'.$row['id'].'"/>

im guessing that once u press the submit button, the form is submitted to the code u posed, so u will need to catch the id from the posted form like so:

<?php 
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass"); 
if (!$con) 
  { 
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); 
  } 

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con); 

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM field where id=".$_POST['id'].""); 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
  { 
  echo '<form action="">'; 
  echo '<input type="text" name="client_name" value="'.$row['cli-name'].'">'; 
  ///Etc, Etc, Etc. 
  echo '</form>'; 
  } 

mysql_close($con); 
?>

and hopefully that will display all the info on the selected event