Question

I have been given a task to convert the hardcoded fields into dynamic fields.I have changed it partially to dynamic
Let me explain you the situation ,

We have a lot of databases and each database has a table by name Surveys

By using the DESCRIBE statement we will retrieve the fields in the Surveys table regardless of the database .

I need to know the way where we can loop again and again till all the fields in the survey table appears.

In the below code I have left the for loop blank .

Please let me know the changes that neeeds to be done to get this working

I would really appreciate any kind of help

function insertIntoUserUploadFileds() {

    $describe="DESCRIBE surveys";

    $sql = "INSERT INTO `userUploadFields` (`fieldName`, `inUse`, `mandatory`, `type`, `mapTo`) VALUES";

    $inUse="0";
    $type="";

    //for(){
        if($field=='type'){
            $type="N";
        }elseif(($field=='fname') || ($field=='lname') || ($field=='phone')){
            $inUse="1";
            $type="T";
        }elseif($field=='email'){
            $inUse="1";
            $type="E";
        }

        //$sql .= "('".$field."', '".$inUse."', '0', '
        $result1 = mysql_query ($describe);
        $result = mysql_query ($sql);
    //}
}

Answer 1

    $result1 = mysql_query ('DESCRIBE surveys');

        //here is how you retieve all field and check
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result1)) {

         $sql = "INSERT INTO `userUploadFields` (`fieldName`, `inUse`, `mandatory`, `type`, `mapTo`) VALUES";

           //here you can do if else to check the column name
           if($row['field']=='type')
            {
                $type="N";
            }
            else if(($row['field']=='fname') || ($row['field']=='lname') || ($row['type']=='phone'))
            {
                $inUse="1";
                $type="T";
             }

             else ($row['field']=='email')
            {
                 $inUse="1"
                 $type="E";
            }


           //build your query

           $sql .= "('".$field."', '".$inUse."', '0', '......)

           //execute your complete query
           $result = mysql_query ($sql);
        }//end of while