I am trying to build a Bingo game, where I want to display my previous records in a select(dropdown)!! how do I fetch my data from database in select dropdown list ---below is my php file
<html>
<style>
#rec_mode{
background-image: url('register.png');
background-size: 100% 100%;
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
border: none;
outline: 0px;
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
</style>
<body>
<select name = "select_history" id="rec_mode">
<option selected="true" disabled="disabled">
<?php
require_once 'config.php';
// $hist = mysqli_query($mysqli, "SELECT name FROM `movie_names` ORDER BY movieID DESC");
$hist = mysqli_query($mysqli,"SELECT m.name FROM movie_names m INNER JOIN host_table ht WHERE m.movieID = ht.random_num ORDER BY ID DESC");
while ($row = $hist->fetch_assoc())
{
echo "<option value=\"select_history\">".$row['name']."</option>";
}
?>
</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
Why have you added option end tag after php code. Isn't it supposed to be like this.
<select name = "select_history" id="rec_mode">
<option selected="true" disabled="disabled">Select Option</option>
<?php
require_once 'config.php';
$hist = mysqli_query($mysqli,"SELECT m.name FROM movie_names m INNER JOIN host_table ht WHERE m.movieID = ht.random_num ORDER BY ID DESC");
while ($row = $hist->fetch_assoc()){
echo "<option value=\"select_history\">".$row['name']."</option>";
}
?>
</select>
First select old selected name from DB eg "harry potter" then use if condition to select inside while loop selected for old one
$hist = mysqli_query($mysqli,"SELECT m.name FROM movie_names m INNER JOIN
host_table ht WHERE m.movieID = ht.random_num ORDER BY ID DESC");
$Bingo = "harry potter"; // previously selected value
while ($row = $hist->fetch_assoc())
{
$selected = "";
if($row["name"]==$Bingo) $selected = "selected"; // If you given Id use colunm name id
echo "<option value=\"select_history\" $selected >".$row['name']."</option>";
}
Thank You
First, you have to close that first option tag properly. Also, you might want the option value would be the id column from the db. Please use the correct column names from your tables. But it should be something like this:
<select name = "select_history" id="rec_mode">
<option selected="true" disabled="disabled"> -- SELECT -- </option> <!-- close it here -->
<?php
require_once 'config.php';
$hist = mysqli_query($mysqli,"SELECT m.movieID, m.name FROM movie_names m INNER JOIN host_table ht WHERE m.movieID = ht.random_num ORDER BY movieID DESC"); // make sure query is correct, test it in your mysql client
while ($row = $hist->fetch_assoc())
{
echo "<option value='{$row['movieID']}'>{$row['name']}</option>";
}
?>