Question

i have been trying to write a program to insert the array values in multiple rows of a column in a database table. After lot of trial I couldn’t get the proper output I wanted.

My database table looks like this

    id   | values  |
    1    |         |
    2    |         |
    4    |         |
    5    |         |
    6    |         |

and I have 2nd column values as an array and I want to enter those values in the second column.

The output should look like this:-

    id   | values  |
    1    |     2   |
    2    |     3   |
    4    |     7   |
    5    |     9   |
    6    |     10  |

So, I have two array values $id and $values…So, I want to fill $values in each row of the column for each respective $id values

NOTE : $id is already filled in the database

Answer 1

I am assuming that you have an array with the id values in it.

You may try something like this:

foreach($XArray as $key => $value){

$sql = "UPDATE TABLENEAME ".
       "SET value = $value ".
       "WHERE id = $key" ;

$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
}

I haven’t checked the code, its just a sample.

With respect to the updated question:

$count=sizeof($value);
for($counter=0;$counter<$count;$counter++){

    $sql = "UPDATE TABLENEAME ".
           "SET value = $value[$counter]".
           "WHERE id = $id[$counter]" ;

    $retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn ) or die ("Error in query: $sql");
    }