using variables in another page

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

I have a test database set up on localhost. I have a form that I can type a name into, hit the button and it puts the name into the database and into a list on my page. it works fine. Now, I wanted to make a drop down list with all the names so that you could select one to remove that name from the database. So I did this

Code: <form>
<select>
<option><?php echo $name ?></option>
</select>
</form>

What that did was list the very last name in the list. What I thought it would do was list all the names based on the loop that I have set up to read all the names from the database. which is this

Code: $mysql = new mysqli('localhost', 'myusername', 'mypass', 'mydatabase') or die('not working');

$result = $mysql->query("SELECT * FROM myTable") or die($mysql->error);

if($result)
{
while($row = $result->fetch_object())
{
$name = $row->names;
echo $name . "<br />";
}
}

Now the while loop is in a file I called results and it is included in the index page with an include. I thought this would give me access to the $name variable and allow me to use it the same way it's being used in the loop. of course I was wrong, so how do I use it the same way?

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

First root of a number
Hi,

I can't find any function in php to give me the first root of a number.
Is there any

How to change www in url with a specified name
Hi
I'm trying to change the url http://www.sitename.com/apparels to something like below
http:

Probably Easy, Need help with Check Boxes in PHP Code
hello,

Thanks for looking this over and helping me out. My problem is I have a online store l

PHP IMAGE UPLOAD SCRIPT
Hi for the last week i have been looking for scripts that will upload a photo to a certain folder wh

Disabling SAP menu
How do I disable SAP menu for all the users and just restrict them to User Menu in SAP ECC 6.0?

Hotlinking Picasa as the image folder of a website
Hi there PHP freaks, I would like to create a private album in Picasa to use it as the image folder

PHP template help
Ok, I don't know if anyone can help me but I am using PHP templates to make a site. I am a newbie an

Thought I has this figured out especially after all the help i received?
Cags, Salathe, Daniel helped me with this yesterday, but not sure i took it all in.
I am attempti

writing a screen scraper
Hello,

I'm writing a screen scraper application and want to be able to get absolute addresses

Open browser page depending on XML results
Hello,

I have some PHP code that sends webbased from data to an external url ( in the form of