Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

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October 17th, 2002, 06:56 PM

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Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

I am getting the following error when using the tutorial example that Matt provided on how to sort a retrieved table by column headings:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_fetch_assoc()

Other functions, such as mysql_fetch_array() work. Is this a version problem, or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Rich

October 17th, 2002, 07:01 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

mysql_fetch_assoc was introduced in 4.0.3....

October 15th, 2003, 08:27 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

php Code:

Original - php Code

<HTML>
<TITLE>Contact Database</TITLE>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black" LINK="blue" VLINK="violet" BACKGROUND="images/gray.gif">
<CENTER><H1>Customer Contact Database</H1></CENTER>

<?php
/* Set up to allow the user to sort the columns at will. The code following
will allow this capacity */
$default_sort = 'datecon';
$allowed_order = array ('datecon', 'ieipoc', 'custpoc', 'custname');

/* If order is not set, or it is not in the allowed list, then set it to a defau
lt value, otherwise, set it to what was passed in. */
if (!isset ($_GET['order']) ||
        !in_array ($_GET['order'], $allowed_order))
        {
                $order = $default_sort;
        }
else
        {
                $order = $_GET['order'];
        }

/* Connect to the DB */
mysql_connect ('localhost','root','********');
mysql_select_db ('custinfo');

/* Construct and run our query */
$query = "SELECT * FROM custcont ORDER BY $order";
$result = mysql_query ($query);

/* Make sure data was retrieved */
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($numrows ==0)
{
        echo "<CENTER>No Data Was Retrieved!</CENTER>";
        exit;
}

/* Now, grab the first row and start the table */
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

echo '<TABLE BORDER=1>n';
echo '<TR>n';
foreach ($row as $heading=>$column)
{
        /* Check if the heading is in our allowed_order array
                If it is, hyperlink it so that we can order by
                this column. */
        echo '<TD><B>';
        if (in_array ($heading, $allowed_order))
        {
                echo "<a href="{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?order=$heading">$heading
</A>";
        }
        else
        {
                echo $heading;
        }
        echo '</B></TD>n';
}
echo '</TR>n';

/* Reset the $result set back to the first row and display the data */
mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
        echo '<TR>n';
        foreach ($row as $column)
        {
                echo '<TD>$column</TD>n';
        }
        echo '</TR>n';
}
echo '</TABLE>n';

/* End sort code */

<CENTER>
<B><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://localhost/input.php">Input New Record
</A></B>
<B><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://localhost/search.php">Search For Reco
rd</A></B>
</CENTER>
<P></P>
<P></P>
<BR></BR>
<P><CENTER><I><B><H6>Copyright (c) 2003 by International Enterprises, Inc. All r
ights reserved</H6></B></I></CENTER></P>
</HTML>

 
<HTML>
<TITLE>Contact Database</TITLE>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white" TEXT="black" LINK="blue" VLINK="violet" BACKGROUND="images/gray.gif">
<CENTER><H1>Customer Contact Database</H1></CENTER>
 
<?php
/* Set up to allow the user to sort the columns at will. The code following
will allow this capacity */
$default_sort = 'datecon';
$allowed_order = array ('datecon', 'ieipoc', 'custpoc', 'custname');
 
/* If order is not set, or it is not in the allowed list, then set it to a defau
lt value, otherwise, set it to what was passed in. */
if (!isset ($_GET['order']) ||
        !in_array ($_GET['order'], $allowed_order))
        {
                $order = $default_sort;
        }
else
        {
                $order = $_GET['order'];
        }
 
/* Connect to the DB */
mysql_connect ('localhost','root','********');
mysql_select_db ('custinfo');
 
/* Construct and run our query */
$query = "SELECT * FROM custcont ORDER BY $order";
$result = mysql_query ($query);
 
/* Make sure data was retrieved */
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($result);
 
if ($numrows ==0)
{
        echo "<CENTER>No Data Was Retrieved!</CENTER>";
        exit;
}
 
/* Now, grab the first row and start the table */
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
 
echo '<TABLE BORDER=1>n';
echo '<TR>n';
foreach ($row as $heading=>$column)
{
        /* Check if the heading is in our allowed_order array
                If it is, hyperlink it so that we can order by
                this column. */
        echo '<TD><B>';
        if (in_array ($heading, $allowed_order))
        {
                echo "<a href="{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?order=$heading">$heading
</A>";
        }
        else
        {
                echo $heading;
        }
        echo '</B></TD>n';
}
echo '</TR>n';
 
/* Reset the $result set back to the first row and display the data */
mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
        echo '<TR>n';
        foreach ($row as $column)
        {
                echo '<TD>$column</TD>n';
        }
        echo '</TR>n';
}
echo '</TABLE>n';
 
/* End sort code */
 
?>
 
<CENTER>
<B><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://localhost/input.php">Input New Record
</A></B>
<B><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://localhost/search.php">Search For Reco
rd</A></B>
</CENTER>
<P></P>
<P></P>
<BR></BR>
<P><CENTER><I><B><H6>Copyright (c) 2003 by International Enterprises, Inc. All r
ights reserved</H6></B></I></CENTER></P>
</HTML>

Output from this page is WEIRD:
IEI Face to Face Contact Database

IEI Customer Contact Database

n
n idn dateconn ieipocn custpocn custnamen subjectn commentn
n
n $columnn $columnn $columnn $columnn $columnn $columnn
$columnn
n

n

Input New Record Search For Record

Copyright (c) 2003 by International Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved

Anyone have a clue to loan as to why the actual data is not displayed?

Thanks

rk

October 15th, 2003, 09:39 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

Try changing this line
'<TD>$column</TD>n';
so it would look like this:
'<TD>'.$column'.</TD>n';

October 16th, 2003, 12:23 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

Doh! That fixed it. I looked and looked and looked at the code and didn;t see that I had the variable within the ticks....ah well, thanks for the pointer!

On another issue with this code, HOW can I change the column name display? Instead of 'datecon', I would prefer 'Date of Contact'? Also, can I prevent certain columns from being displayed at all? Would this be done from within the select statement?

TIA

rk

October 16th, 2003, 12:36 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

Glad that helped. As far as column names, set them in the Select statement, like this:

$query = ("SELECT M.Firm, L.abrev Local, M.memberType Type, M.Name, M.Street, M.City, M.State, M.Zip, M.Phone, M.Ext, M.Fax, M.Email, M.WebURL"); $query .= (" FROM Member M, LocalAssn L");
$query .= (" WHERE M.LocalAssn_id=L.assn_id");

For instance, the word Local is substituted for the L.abrev column name in the results.

Rich

October 16th, 2003, 12:41 PM

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RE: Trouble with Matt's Column Sorting Tutorial

If it is in the select statement, it will print, so change your select statement from * (all) to the explicit columns you want returned, as in the previous post example.

Rich

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