Question

I have a working mysql query that retrieves data from table1.

Now I will add every month a new table (table2, table3..etc).

Goal 1 : I would like to add a drop down menu and populate it with all tables as user options.

Goal 2 : I would like to make the query connect to the table that the user selects from the drop down menu, retrieves data and then refresh the page or just the table’s div to display updated data.

my current mysql/php code :

$query = "SELECT X, Y, Z FROM **table1**";

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 

{
echo $row['X'];

echo $row['Y'];

echo $row['Z'];
}

Instead of “table1” it should be a variable linked to the drop down menu that the user selects.

I feel it should be simple, but I am bit new to this and could not find a similar case.

Thanks a lot gents.

Answer 1

I like the comment above but here is an example not sure if that what you are looking for

<form action="process.php" method='post'>
        <select name="tables">
        <option value="1">1</option>
        <option value="2">2</option>
        <option value="3">3</option>
        <option value="4">4</option>
        </select>
        <input type="submit" />
        </form>

process.php file

 $table=$_POST['tables'];
$query = "SELECT X, Y, Z FROM  ".$table;

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 

{
echo $row['X'];

echo $row['Y'];

echo $row['Z'];
}