Re: Select statement only returns 1 record

I don't know if this will help, and it begs an answer from my earlier question. But here is an easy way to fill a drop-down (?) box with a mysql_query. $sql="SELECT * FROM webl_players ORDER BY $sortby"; $result=mysql_query($sql,$db); print "<select name=\"canidate\">"; while($obj = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { print "<option>"; print "$obj->LastName, $obj->FirstName"; print "</option>"; } print "</select>"; ?> You will have to do some conditional stuff to get the right record to be automatically selected (<option selected>) But this might help Miles Thompson wrote:

Check the manual for the mysql_fetch_array() function, it shows you how to extract data from $result. You will use the while loop (as shown in the manual's example) to fill your combo box / selct list /drop down menu, whatever we're calling that creature today. Miles At 12:45 PM 1/30/2002 -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote:

I am trying to get data from two columns, FirstName and Last name and displaying all the records LastName, FirstName in a drop down menu. The weird thing is that it only displays one record. I thought the table was hosed, but its not. I tried it through another database and still doesn't work. Here is the code: <? $db = mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbuser, $dbpass); mysql_select_db($dbname,$db); $sortby = "name ASC"; $sql="SELECT * FROM webl_players ORDER BY $sortby"; $result=mysql_query($sql,$db); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $FirstName = $row["FirstName"]; $LastName = $row["LastName"]; ?> <select name="canidate">

          <option selected>
          <?php echo "$LastName, $FirstName"; ?>
          </option>

I would list the whole page but its long! There is another SQL statement at the top of the page: <?php $db = mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbuser, $$dbpass); mysql_select_db($dbname, $db); $sql = "SELECT * FROM Canidate SORT BY 'LastName'"; $result = mysql_query($sql); ?> -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net