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dole doug
dole doug

Reputation: 36038

insert multiple rows same time

A PHP script is generating the following table panel based on the data from a mysql DB. Each cell of the table contains a checkbox which sets the access to some 'areas'. The name of my checkboxes are following a certain rule: u[user_id]a[area_name] and I was thinking to get all the $_POST's which are set and to save them in the data base with their values.

The number of the areas are fixed, but the number of the users varies by days. The table in which I have to save the status of the table is: user_id, current_date, area1, area2, area3, area4, area5, .. area25.

The problem is that I don't know how to save this table into the database. At this moment I do an insert for each user and I think it has to better solution because this takes too much time.

<form name="foo" method="post" action="saveme.php" />    
<table><tr>
    <td>name</td><td>area1</td><td>area2</td><td>area3</td><td>area4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>John Smith</td>
    <td><input type="checkbox" value="12" name="u1a1" checked /></td>
    <td><input type="checkbox" value="13" name="u1a2" /></td>
    <td><input type="checkbox" value="16" name="u1a3" /></td>
    <td><input type="checkbox" value="21" name="u1a4" checked /></td>
</tr>
</table><input type="submit" value="Save" /> </form>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 799

Answers (2)

Doug Kress
Doug Kress

Reputation: 3537

I think this should do the trick. However, when I see fields like 'area1, area2, ... area25' - I have a tendency to think there may be a better solution. Perhaps the table should have the fields 'user_id, current_date, area_id, area' instead?

$users = array();
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    $matches = null;
    if (preg_match('/^u(\d+)a(\d+)$/', $key, $matches)) {
        $user_id = $matches[1];
        $area_id = $matches[2];
        if (!isset($users[$user_id))) {
            $users[$user_id] = array_fill(1, 25, 0);
        }
        $users[$user_id][$area_id] = mysql_real_escape_string($value);
    }
}
$values = array();

foreach ($users as $user_id => $areas) {
    $values[] = '(' . $user_id .', now(), '. implode(', ', $areas) .')';
}

if ($values) {
    $sql = 'INSERT INTO user_areas (user_id, current_date, area1, area2, area3, area4, area5, area6, area7, area8, area9, area10, area11, area12, area13, area14, area15, area16, area17, area18, area19, area20, area21, area22, area23, area24, area25) VALUES ' . implode(', ', $values);

    // execute $sql query
}

Upvotes: 2

Stefano Mtangoo
Stefano Mtangoo

Reputation: 6550

May be you need mysqli multiquery. Build query dynamically. Here an example straight from PHP manual. http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.multi-query.php

<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");

/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}

$query  = "SELECT CURRENT_USER();";
$query .= "SELECT Name FROM City ORDER BY ID LIMIT 20, 5";

/* execute multi query */
if ($mysqli->multi_query($query)) {
    do {
        /* store first result set */
        if ($result = $mysqli->store_result()) {
            while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
                printf("%s\n", $row[0]);
            }
            $result->free();
        }
        /* print divider */
        if ($mysqli->more_results()) {
            printf("-----------------\n");
        }
    } while ($mysqli->next_result());
}

/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Upvotes: 1

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