Apologies in advance if a) this question has already been answered, I did search but am not able to use the answers I've found and b) I am not the a very skilled programmer and am trying to learn...
To make this as short as possible...
- I have a fully functioning site with a searchable and sortable database (that a co-worker pretty much build for me a long time ago, hence why I am extra confused)
- I would like to add a dropdown filter that populates from the database
- The code references javascript and PHP. From what I understand, the PHP populates the table data for me and the javascript triggers the 'show xx entries' filter and the search box - which are both awesome
My issue is I cannot get any code for the dropdown I would like to add to work. I can get the dropdown to populate but not actually filter the data :(
<?php
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'database';
$dbpass = 'password;
$dbname = 'marchmadness';
$table = 'leaderboard';
//connect to the database
$db = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Leaderboard</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/listing.css" media="all" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="assets/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="assets/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
/* This triggers the cool filtering stuff, without this it's just a normal table of data */
$('table').dataTable({
"iDisplayLength": 10
});
});
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="listing">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="topbox" align="center">
<img src="_Images/maddnessheader.png" width="539" height="296" align="center" /></div>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<?
$sql="SELECT Title FROM leaderboard";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$options="";
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$id=$row["leaderboard"];
$thing=$row["Title"];
$options.="<OPTION VALUE=\"$id\">".$thing.'</option>';
}
?>
<SELECT NAME=thing>
<OPTION VALUE=0>Choose
<?=$options?>
</SELEC
T>
<table align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Call Coding (%)</th>
<th>FizzBack SAT Score (%)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
//get the information from the database
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `$table`;") or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<tr>';
// print out the data from the database. Notice how the text inside $row[] matches up with the headers in phpmyadmin
echo '<td>' . htmlentities($row['Title']) . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . htmlentities($row['Name']) . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . htmlentities($row['CC']) . '</td>';
echo '<td>' . htmlentities($row['FZB']) . '</td>';
echo "</tr>\n";
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I think I would have to manipulate the javascript to add what I need, as that's where the the working dropdown and search box come from... but I suck a javascript :-\ If anyone could help I would REALLY appreciate it. I can share the existing Java as well if needed :D
Cheers!