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Organiccat
Organiccat

Reputation: 5651

Use CodeIgniter to loop through post data and update/save to DB

I have a page where you can update a lot of data, I'm wondering what the best way to store this data on the backend is (using the least amount of code generally).

The data set on the page where each value can be changed would be something like this:

   ID NAME   DATA MURDATA FINALDATA
   1  MyName XYZ  425     Blah
   2  Anoth  ASDF 87      987
   3  Last   DKL  38      19bm

How do I loop through the post data so I can do updates on all this submitted data at once?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2046

Answers (1)

Basti
Basti

Reputation: 4042

You can't update two tuples with different values. You will have to do one UPDATE for each tuple or do a bulk insert using the ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE-syntax. See the MySQL reference.

Have a form with inputs that have [] as suffix to their names. This way you can access these inputs as an array in PHP:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
while ($tuple = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
    echo '<input type="text" name="name['.(int)$tuple["id"].']" value="'.htmlentities($tuple["name"]).'" />';
    // echo more inputs ...
}

Your post processing code could look like this

foreach ($_POST["name"] as $id => $data)
{
    // todo: check if all $_POST columns are set, before accessing them
    // if (!isset($_POST["data"][$id], $_POST["murdata"][$id], ...)
    //     continue;

    $query = "UPDATE table SET ".
    $query .= "name = ".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["name"][$id])."'";
    // the other columns...
    $query .= "WHERE id = '".(int)$id."'";
}

Upvotes: 2

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