Question

So ive got a fully working page to display a dropdown list of all tables avaliable in my database. however i want it to display the list of all tables except one (as one of the tables contains user information which i dont want shown…)
Is there a way to do this?

This is the section of the code ive got so far…
$sql = “SHOW TABLES FROM $dbname”;
$result = mysql_query($sql);

if (!$result) {
    echo "DB Error, could not list tables\n";
    echo 'MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error();
    exit;
}
if (mysql_select_db($dbname, $conn))
{
?>
    <form method="post" action="Browse.php">
    <select name="tables">
    <?php
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    ?>    
    <?php
        echo '<option value="'.$row[0].'">'.$row[0].'</option>';
    }
    ?>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" value="Show">
</form>
<?php
//mysql_free_result($result);
if (isset($_POST) && isset($_POST['tables']))
{
    $tbl=$_POST['tables'];
    //echo $_POST['tables']."<br />";
    $query="SELECT * from $tbl ORDER BY title ASC";
    $res=mysql_query($query);
    //echo $query;
    if ($res)
    {
    ?>
    <table border="1">
    <?php
        while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
        {
            echo "<tr>";
            //echo "<td>".$row[0]."</td>";
            echo "<td>".$row[1]."</td>";
            //echo "<td>".$row[2]."</td>";
            //echo "<td>".$row[3]."</td>";      
            echo "</tr>";
        } ?>
    </table>
    <?php
    }
}
}

Its no biggie if there isnt an easy way to do so as i’ve figured out that by doing the $query="SELECT * from $tbl ORDER BY title ASC"; it wont display the data (as there isnt a title column in the user details table)..but i dont want the table name to be shown in the dropdown box

Just a general query really…
Thanks

Answer 1

Another alternative is to avoid outputting the table in question when you construct the list of options:

<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    if ($row[0] != 'my_private_table_name') {
        echo '<option value="'.$row[0].'">'.$row[0].'</option>';
    }
}
?>