MySQL & PHP -- Help!

Hi guys,
Long time, no see! ;-)
Anyway, I've got a question for someone who is pretty darn
good with PHP,
forms, and MySQL. This is ultimately what I need to achieve:
I'm creating a webpage for my university that will allow the
professors in
the IST department to select their preferences in course
choices. I want to
list out each IST course and then give them two different
things to do with
each course. The first thing is they need to select if
they've taught that
IST course before. Secondly, they need to say whether they
"don't want to
teach" the course, are "willing to teach" the course, or
"really want to
teach" the course. OK, hope this makes sense so far. What I
need help with
is figuring out how to put all the choices for each categorey
into one field
in a MySQL database. For example, if they selected the "don't
want to teach"
option (I'm not sure if a drop-box or radio button would work
best...) for
IST 215, IST 110 and IST 230. How can I have those courses
entered into the
single database field called "dontwant?"
This is my code so far:
// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or
die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");
// Get values from form
$name=$_POST['name'];
$thedate=date('m-j-y');
$taughtbefore=;
$dontwant=;
$willing=;
$reallywant=;
$comments=!trim($_POST['comments']);
// Insert data into mysql
$sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(name, thedate, taughtbefore,
dontwant,
willing, reallywant, comments)VALUES('$name', '$thedate',
'$taughtbefore',
'$dontwant', '$willing', '$reallywant', '$comments')";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
// close connection
mysql_close();
Is there a way I can like...append all these values into one
string to pass
into the single database field...? As you can see, I really
don't know how
or what values to assign to those empty strings up there...
I'm really
unsure of how to go about doing this. I hope this makes
sense...
Thanks for any and all of your time!
Shane H
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Hi Murray,
Allow me to clarify. I ultimately need to display something
like this...and
this would be reading from the MySQL database, and output in
a table on the
webpage:
| No Teach | Want to Teach | Really want |
| IST 250 | IST 420 | IST 330 |
| IST 110 | IST 101 | IST 311 |
| IST 332 | | IST 120 |
| | | IST 440
|
I understand your approach and think it's a good idea. I
guess I should have
a table for each, like: NoTeach, WantToTeach, and ReallyWant.
My question is
how I would put the right IST course into the right table.
Like if they
selected "I don't want to teach" would I have some type of if
statement to
sort them into the right tables? If so, can you give me some
code on how it
would work?
Thanks!
Shane H
[email protected]
http://www.avenuedesigners.com
=============================================
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http://avenuedesigners.com/blog/
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=============================================
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"Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Why would you want to put all of that into a single
field? Sounds like
> the wrong approach to me....
>
> I'd have a NoTeach table, containing at least three
fields -
>
> termDate
> profID
> classID
>
> Each professor's "noteach" selection would then be a
separate record in
> that table, which could all be collated for display....
>
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> "Shane H" <[email protected]> wrote
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Long time, no see! ;-)
>>
>> Anyway, I've got a question for someone who is
pretty darn good with PHP,
>> forms, and MySQL. This is ultimately what I need to
achieve:
>>
>> I'm creating a webpage for my university that will
allow the professors
>> in the IST department to select their preferences in
course choices. I
>> want to list out each IST course and then give them
two different things
>> to do with each course. The first thing is they need
to select if they've
>> taught that IST course before. Secondly, they need
to say whether they
>> "don't want to teach" the course, are "willing to
teach" the course, or
>> "really want to teach" the course. OK, hope this
makes sense so far. What
>> I need help with is figuring out how to put all the
choices for each
>> categorey into one field in a MySQL database. For
example, if they
>> selected the "don't want to teach" option (I'm not
sure if a drop-box or
>> radio button would work best...) for IST 215, IST
110 and IST 230. How
>> can I have those courses entered into the single
database field called
>> "dontwant?"
>>
>> This is my code so far:
>>
>> // Connect to server and select database.
>> mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or
die("cannot
>> connect");
>> mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select
DB");
>>
>> // Get values from form
>> $name=$_POST['name'];
>> $thedate=date('m-j-y');
>> $taughtbefore=;
>> $dontwant=;
>> $willing=;
>> $reallywant=;
>> $comments=!trim($_POST['comments']);
>>
>> // Insert data into mysql
>> $sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(name, thedate,
taughtbefore, dontwant,
>> willing, reallywant, comments)VALUES('$name',
'$thedate',
>> '$taughtbefore', '$dontwant', '$willing',
'$reallywant', '$comments')";
>> $result=mysql_query($sql);
>>
>> // close connection
>> mysql_close();
>>
>>
>> Is there a way I can like...append all these values
into one string to
>> pass into the single database field...? As you can
see, I really don't
>> know how or what values to assign to those empty
strings up there... I'm
>> really unsure of how to go about doing this. I hope
this makes sense...
>>
>> Thanks for any and all of your time!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shane H
>> [email protected]
>>
http://www.avenuedesigners.com
>>
>> =============================================
>> Blog:
>>
http://avenuedesigners.com/blog/
>>
>> Web dev articles, photography, and more:
>>
http://sourtea.com
>> =============================================
>> Proud GAWDS member
>>
http://www.gawds.org/showmember.php?memberid=1495
>>
>> Delivering accessible websites to all ...
>> =============================================
>

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> On 11 Oct 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, Murray
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>
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>
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> >
> > <?php
> > include '............';
> > mysql_select_db('clinskills') or die("UNABLE TO
CONNECT TO
DATABASE");
> > $newdata = $_GET['data'];
> > mysql_query("insert into authorware (A1Answer)
values('$newdata')")
or
> > die(mysql_error());
> > mysql_close(); ?>
> >
>
>

MySQL php and CHARACTER SET error

Still very new to php and MySQL, in fact this is my first
site using it.
I have got an issue with displaying characters, namely the
£ sing, all I get is an ? displayed.
I have been told to use, utf8 in the database field but this
has not helped cure the problem.
I'm building the site in DW CS3 and it's all running off my
Mac using OS X 10.5.1 and the built in php client.
Could anyone show me the right way to go?

Ok I think my IQ is falling me, it's been a long week.
<?php header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8');
?>
Is the first line of code on the test page I have got
running. I have no error but I also have no £ sings.
Here is the live page:
http://www.epos-acoustics.com/test.php
The page code:
<?php header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8');
?>
<?php require_once('Connections/epos.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType,
$theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
$theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue)
: $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ?
mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) :
mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($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 $theValue;
mysql_select_db($database_epos, $epos);
$query_rs01 = "SELECT * FROM epos_shop ORDER BY my_shop_id
ASC";
$rs01 = mysql_query($query_rs01, $epos) or
die(mysql_error());
$row_rs01 = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs01);
$totalRows_rs01 = mysql_num_rows($rs01);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />
<title>shop text test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php do { ?>
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="2"
cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="92">Product name: </td>
<td width="494" colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_product']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Description:</td>
<td colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_text']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Price:</td>
<td colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_price']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="30" colspan="3"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rs01 = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs01));
?></body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($rs01);
?>
Am I missing the point or do I have something wrong with the
table or field?

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