Code Examples -> Tired to edit forms? this simple script will edit or update ANY MySQL database.It can handle set, enum, textarea and creat and update date fields data.

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Title :	Tired to edit forms? this simple script will edit or update ANY MySQL database.It can handle set, enum, textarea and creat and update date fields data.
Categories :	MySQL, Databases, PHP	Benedetto Patrice
Date :	Jul 17th 2000
Grade :	2 of 5 (graded 2 times)
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<?
/* Original version July 2000 Patrice Benedetto webmestre@labynet.org */
/* Please use and reuse this script as you want but don't forget credit */
/* feel free to tell or show me some improvement of your own */
/* as bugs you may find thank you */
/* this is a sheap script , with comments it will be more expensive */
/* B-Z stand for Be Zen , join the BZ project :))) */
/* USE : generik.php3?db=BASE&table=TABLE&kn=USED_INDEX_NAME&key=ID_OF_INDEX */
<?
echo "<html><head>
<STYLE TYPE='text/css'>
.Legende         { background-color: #CCCCCC; }
.fond                 { background-color: #000000; }
.Data                 { background-color: #EEEEEE; }
.foot                 { background-color: #FFFFFF; }

P.titre
{
        font-family: helvetica, arial, geneva, sans-serif;
        color: #003300;
        font-weight: 800;
}
</STYLE>
<head><body>" ;
$mysql_link = mysql_connect("localhost", $db, "PUT YOUR PASSWORD HERE ");
mysql_select_db($db, $mysql_link);

/*****************************************/
function BZ_ShowSet ( $row_table_def , $data )
{
$field = $row_table_def["Field"];
$set = str_replace("set(", "", $row_table_def["Type"]);
$set = ereg_replace("\)$", "", $set);
$set = explode (",", $set ) ;
                 for ($vals = explode(",", $data); list($t, $k) = each($vals);) {
                        $vset[$k] = 1;
                 }
                 $size = min(4, count($set));
for ($j=0; $j<count($set);$j++)
{
                                 echo "<INPUT TYPE='checkbox' name=$field$j option value='".htmlspecialchars(substr($set[$j], 1, -1))."'";
                                 if ($vset[substr($set[$j], 1, -1)])
echo " checked";
echo "> ".htmlspecialchars(substr($set[$j], 1, -1))." <br> \n";
}

}
/*****************************************/

function BZ_ShowEnum ( $row_table_def , $data )
{
$field = $row_table_def["Field"];
$set = str_replace("enum(", "", $row_table_def["Type"]);
$set = ereg_replace("\)$", "", $set);

$set = explode (",", $set ) ;
echo "<select name='$field'>\n";
                 echo "<option value=\"\">\n";
for ($j=0; $j<count($set);$j++)
{
echo '<option value="'.substr($set[$j], 1, -1).'"';
if ($data == substr($set[$j], 1, -1) || ($data == "" && substr($set[$j], 1, -1) == $row_table_def["Default"]))
echo " selected";
echo ">".htmlspecialchars(substr($set[$j], 1, -1))."\n";
}
echo "</select>";
}
/*****************************************/
function BZ_CalcSet ($setName )
{
$out = 0 ;
$bitVal = 1 ;
for ( $bit = 0 ; $bit < 64 ; ++$bit )
        {
        $theGlobalName = $setName.$bit ;
        eval ( "global $"."$theGlobalName ; " ) ;
        $theString = "$"."thevalue = $".$theGlobalName.";" ;
         eval ( $theString );
        if ( $thevalue ) { $out |= $bitVal ; } ;
        $bitVal<<= 1;
        }
return $out ;
}
/**************** START ******************/
$table_def = mysql_db_query($db , "SHOW FIELDS FROM $table") ;
if (isset($action))
{
if ( $table_def )
{
if( $action =="update" ) $query =" UPDATE $table SET " ;
if( $action =="write" ) $query =" INSERT into $table VALUES ( " ;

$virgule = "" ;
for ($i=0;$i<mysql_num_rows($table_def);$i++)
{
$row_table_def = mysql_fetch_array($table_def);
$field = $row_table_def["Field"];

if ( "TIME_UPDT" == $field )
{
$value = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time());
$theString = "$"."$field = '".$value ."';" ;

eval ($theString) ;
}

if ($action =="write" && "TIME_CREA" == $field )
{

$value = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", time());
$theString = "$"."$field = '".$value ."';" ;

eval ($theString) ;

}

$theString = "$"."value = $"."$field ; " ;

switch (ereg_replace("\\(.*", "", $row_table_def['Type'])) {
         case "set":
                  $value = BZ_CalcSet ( $field) ;
                  if( $action =="update" ) $query .= "$virgule $field = (($field &0 ) | $value ) ";
                          if( $action =="write" ) $query .= "$virgule $value ";

                        break;
         default:
                         eval ( $theString );
                         $value = addslashes ($value );
                         if( $action =="write" ) $query .= "$virgule '$value' ";
                         if( $action =="update" ) $query .= "$virgule $field= '$value' ";
                        break;
         }
$virgule ="," ;
}
}
if( $action =="update" ) $query .= "WHERE ID = '$ID' " ;
if( $action =="write" ) $query .= ")" ;

if ( mysql_query ( $query ) )
                {
                 echo "<h1>Success </h1>" ;
                 }
        else
                {
                echo "<h1>Wrong query </h1>" ;
                }
echo $query ;

exit ;
}

if (isset($kn))
{

$result = mysql_db_query($db, "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE $kn = '$key' ");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

}
else
{
$result = mysql_db_query($db, "SELECT * FROM $table LIMIT 1");
}
if (!$table_def)
{
exit();
}
else
{
        echo " <tr> <td class='bar'> ";
                        echo "<p class='titre'> Edit a ". $table ." record on database ".$db." </p> </td></tr> ";
echo " <tr> <td class='fond'> ";
?>
<form method="post" action="generik.php3">
<input type="hidden" name="server" value="<?php echo $server;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="db" value="<?php echo $db;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="table" value="<?php echo $table;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="goto" value="<?php echo $goto;?>">
<?php
if ( $key !="" )
        {
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="kn" value="' . $kn . '">' ;
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="key" value="' . $key . '">' ;
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update">' ;
        }
else
        {
        echo '<input type="hidden" name="action" value="write">' ;
        }
        echo "\n" ;
        echo " <table border=0 cellspacing='1' bgcolor='#FFFFF' WIDTH='100%' > " ;
echo "\n" ;
for ($i=0;$i<mysql_num_rows($table_def);$i++)
{
$row_table_def = mysql_fetch_array($table_def);
$field = $row_table_def["Field"];
$len = mysql_field_len($result,$i);

if( ! ereg ("ID" , $field ) )
{
echo "<tr><td class='Legende".$a."' > <STRONG> ". ereg_replace ("_"," ", $field ). " </STRONG> </td>\n";
}
         switch (ereg_replace("\\(.*", "", $row_table_def['Type']))
         {
         case "set":
                        $type = "set";
                        break;
         case "enum":
                        $type = "enum";
                        break;
         default:
                        $type = $row_table_def['Type'];
                        break;
         }
if (isset($row) && isset($row[$field])) {
$special_chars = htmlspecialchars($row[$field]);
                 $data = $row[$field];
                }
/******** HERE you have to check for some condition to HIDE some fields *****/
if( ! ereg ("ID" , $field ) )
{
echo "<td class=Data >" ;
if (strstr($row_table_def["Type"], "text"))
{
echo "<textarea name='$field' ROWS= 6 COLS=32 >$special_chars</textarea>\n";
}
elseif (strstr($row_table_def["Type"], "enum"))
{
BZ_ShowEnum ( $row_table_def , $data ) ;
}
elseif (strstr($row_table_def["Type"], "set"))
{

BZ_ShowSet ( $row_table_def , $data ) ;
}
else
{
$len = ($len>40)? 40 : $len ;
echo "<input type=text name='$field' value=\"".$special_chars."\" size =\"$len\" maxlength=$len>";
}
echo "</td></tr>\n";
}
else
{
         echo "<input type=hidden name='$field' value=\"".$special_chars."\" >";
}
}
echo "</table>\n";
}
echo " <center> <input type='submit' value='OK'></center> \n </form> \n</td></tr> \n </body>\n<html>" ;
?>

testpage : http://generik.labynet.org/generik.php3?db=labynet_org&table=generik&kn=ID

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User Comments

	benedetto patrice wrote : 412 Reading this code i saw an error there change $len = ($len>40)? 40 : $len ; echo "<input type=text name=`$field` value=\"".$special_chars."\" size =\"$len\" maxlength=$len>"; by .... $limit = ($len>40)? 40 : $len ; echo "<input type=text name=`$field` value=\"".$special_chars."\" size =\"$limit \" maxlength=$len>";
	Philip Olson wrote :414 things i did to get this script to work: OLD: - if you have no username/password to define, just remove the variables - you can define $db here or in url and maybe the username/password/host too, i haven`t tried ----------------------------------------- $mysql_link = mysql_connect("localhost", $db, "PUT YOUR PASSWORD HERE "); mysql_select_db($db, $mysql_link); ----------------------------------------- NEW: ----------------------------------------- $dbhost = "localhost"; // define this $dbuser = "myusername"; // define this $dbpass = "mypassword"; // define this $mysql_link = mysql_connect ("$dbhost", "$dbuser", "$dbpass"); mysql_select_db($db); ----------------------------------------- OLD: - i prefer putting large blocks of html as html vs echo ----------------------------------------- <? echo "<html><head> ----------------------------------------- and ----------------------------------------- <head><body>" ; ----------------------------------------- NEW: ----------------------------------------- ?> <html><head> ----------------------------------------- and ----------------------------------------- <head><body> <? ----------------------------------------- OLD : - much more generik this way ;) - allows you to name it whatever and it`ll work ----------------------------------------- <form method="post" action="generik.php3"> ----------------------------------------- NEW : ----------------------------------------- <form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>"> ----------------------------------------- and everything now works great. good luck! also, we`ll see if this formatting style makes sense (with all the -----`s) and if it does not i won`t duplicate in the future ;) philip olson theprojects.org