Question

Sorry, I want to ask a newbie question 🙂

I have PHP scripts like this :

<select id="member">
 <?php
  $sql   = " select id,name from member order by name ";
  $query = mysql_query($sql);
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
  {             
 ?>
  <option value="<?php echo $row["id"]; ?>"><?php echo $row["name"]; ?></option>
 <?php
  }
 ?>                
</select>

then the result will be generating html like this

<select id="member">
 <option value="1">Jon Skeet</option>
 <option value="2">Marc Gravell</option>
 <option value="3">Darin Dimitrov</option>
</select>

my question is, actually I have 2 tables in mysql, first is member table and second member_invited table.
in member table:
id | name
—————
00 | Jon Skeet
01 | Marc Gravell
02 | Darin Dimitrov

then in member_invited table:
id | name
—————
00 | Jon Skeet
02 | Darin Dimitrov

within this two table
I want to make my list like this:
(look at class=”selected” is in option tag that member has invited)

<select id="member">
 <option value="1">Jon Skeet</option>
 <option value="2" class="selected">Marc Gravell</option>
 <option value="3" class="selected">Darin Dimitrov</option>
</select>

please feel free to using javascript or jquery,, or maybe I can solve it just by using PHP ?
many thanks 🙂

Answer 1

you have to do it in MySQL with a join to member_invited table and then extend your while loop regarding is_invited flag from resultset

<?php
  $sql = "SELECT x.id,x.name,IFNULL(y.id,0) AS is_invited FROM member x LEFT JOIN member_invited y ON x.id=y.id ORDER BY x.name";
  $query = mysql_query($sql);
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query))
  {             
?>
<option value="<?php echo $row["id"]; ?>"<?php if ($row['is_invited']>0) { echo " class=\"selected\""; } ?>><?php echo $row["name"]; ?></option>
<?php
  }
?>