Question

I’m trying to create a dynamic form builder. Therefore PHP gets a set of names from a database and creates a new table with those names as column names. This works quite well until one or more names are integer (for ex. ‘12345’). Then the script fails.

How can I force PHP of MySQL to give numeric table names?

Here is a piece of the code (its still a draft):

$slaop = 'id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, PRIMARY KEY(id)';
require_once 'dbconnect.php';
$connector = new DbConnector();
$result = $connector->query( 'SELECT * FROM '.$form.' ORDER BY rang' );
while ($opslaan = $connector->fetchArray($result)){
  $slaop .=  ', ';
  $slaop .= $opslaan['tekstid'];
  $slaop .=  ' TEXT';
}
echo $slaop;
// OPSLAAN
$formnaam = $_GET['welkform'];
require_once 'dbconnectsave.php';
$connector = new DbConnectorSave();
$connector->query('CREATE TABLE '.$formnaam.'('.$slaop.')')
  or die(mysql_error());

$opslaan['tekstid']; is the part where the text of integer are called.

Does anyone have an idea?

Answer 1

Use a prefix that starts with a letter for your column names.