Hello,
suppose i have an javascript array "userName".I want to load it from a database table named "user".
Can anyone help with idea or sample code?
Thanks
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A:
This creates a global user variable in your page.
<?php
$user = /* get information from database the way you usually do */;
// $user == array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'foo', ...);
?>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
var user = <?php echo json_encode($user); ?>;
</script>
If you're looking for a dynamic AJAXy solution, follow some tutorials about AJAX.
deceze
2010-07-20 09:51:41
i actually don't want mix of javascript php code to do this...i have separate javascript and php script and from javascript i want to call php script to get database data....
Rony
2010-07-20 09:58:29
@Rony In that case you'll have to brush up on AJAX, which you can use to load some information from the server. If the `user` variable doesn't change though, this method is better and saves an extra roundtrip to the server.
deceze
2010-07-20 10:01:39
+1
A:
The best way to do that simply is to get your data in your php code, and then "write" the javascript code to generate the array in php.
A short example would be :
echo "a = new Array();";
foreach($row in $results)
{
echo "a[$row[0]] = $row[1];";
}
My code could be quite incorrect, it's juste to give you a quick example.
You could also do that in a more elegant way, using json.
Guillaume Lebourgeois
2010-07-20 09:52:22
i actually don't want mix of javascript php code to do this...i have separate javascript and php script and from javascript i want to call php script to get database data....
Rony
2010-07-20 09:58:12
You can then make an ajax request to a piece of php code, which would give you the data in json, xml, or anything you like.
Guillaume Lebourgeois
2010-07-20 10:02:08
+1
A:
You'll have to use the mysql_connect(), mysql_select_db() functions in PHP to connect to your db. After that use mysql_query() to SELECT the fields in your user table (if your user table has the fields name and id, SELECT name, id FROM user). Then you can fetch all infos from the db with mysql_fetch_assoc() or any other mysql fetch function. Now you need to echo your data into the javascript on your website, formatted as an array. This is complicated to get right, but you can get help from json_encode.
To fill your array with the user names, you'd do something like this.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var userName = <?php
// Connect to MySQL
//mysql_connect();
//mysql_select_db();
$d = mysql_query( "SELECT name, id FROM user" ) or die( mysql_error() );
$usernames = array();
while( $r = mysql_fetch_assoc($d) ) {
$usernames[] = $r['name'];
}
echo json_encode( $usernames );
?>;
// Do something with the userName array here
</script>
</head>
svens
2010-07-20 09:53:22