Maximum dropdown size

[Shutey]

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

[Georgi Naumov]

Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

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Can you paste same code ?

[Shutey]

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

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Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

[Georgi Naumov]

Shutey íàïèñà:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

.................................................. ..........................*..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

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Code looks good. Do you tring to add
this in begining on your script ?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors",1);
Tell me if it show messages.
P.P:
Sorry for my bad english.

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Iv=E1n_S=E1nchez_Ortega?=]

Shutey wrote:

$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);

You're missing a pair of double quotes here.

Apart from that, what web browser are you using?

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[Shutey]

On 17 Jun, 10:24, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey íàïèñà:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

.................................................. ..........................**..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

.................................................. ..........................*.
Code looks good. Do you tring to add
this in begining on your script ?
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors",1);
Tell me if it show messages.
P.P:
Sorry for my bad english.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks Georgi,
Added that but it has made no difference. I just get a blank screen
until it times out. I am tending to think it is a php resource or
timing issue because the code works fine when I only put 1 or 2
dropdowns in the form, the problem occurs as soon as I add a 3rd.

Thanks again.

[Shutey]

On 17 Jun, 10:26, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez-...@rroba-
escomposlinux.-.punto.-.orgwrote:

Shutey wrote:

$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);

You're missing a pair of double quotes here.

Apart from that, what web browser are you using?

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Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
-- kobs

Thanks Iván,
The missing quotes is a typo created when I simplified the field and
variable names before sending it. They do exist on my real code and it
works fine as long as I only want 1 or 2 instances of it in my form.

The web browser I am using is IE6 which is updated automatically. I
have also run it on Firefox and got the same problem.

Cheers

[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]

At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:45:43 -0700, Shutey let h(is|er) monkeys type:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

>Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2
on a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns
populated with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and
populate 2 variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown.
The dropdown contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have
1 or 2 dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the
3rd and just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no
error messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this
also made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

................................................. ..........................*..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>'; echo
"<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>"; echo "<option
value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed); while($row =
mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED'; echo "<option
value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

Does the behaviour change when you fetch associative arrays only?
(mysql_fetch_assoc())
Extract() will work with numerically indexed arrays only if
EXTR_PREFIX_ALL or EXTR_PREFIX_INVALID are used as extract-type. I would
not recommend stuffing the symbol table by using extract on each row. I
don't know how many fields each record has, I'd either reference the
required row elements directly or use
list ($field1, $field2, ..., $fieldN)= $row;

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[Jerry Stuckle]

Shutey wrote:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

>Shutey :

>>I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.
I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.
Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!
I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.
Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?
Thanks

................................................. ..........................*..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

310 items in a single dropdown is a lot - and 5 dropdowns with the same
items is going to generate a lot of HTML. Not what I would call real
user-friendly, but it should still work.

You've shown the code for one of the dropdowns, which looks good. But
what about the other 4? How do you generate them, also?

You could also try the following - it will be a little more efficient
than your existing code. Not that there's anything wrong with your
existing code, but this might do something a little different:

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$x++; // Do you actually need $x?
if ($row['field1'] == $ref_variable1) // Just use the array value
$sel = ' SELECTED';
else
$sel = '';
echo "<option value='" . $row['field1'] . "'$sel>" . $row['field2'] .
"</option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

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[Shutey]

On 17 Jun, 11:57, Schraalhans Keukenmeester
<[e-mail]:

At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:45:43 -0700, Shutey let h(is|er) monkeys type:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey :

I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2
on a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns
populated with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and
populate 2 variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown.
The dropdown contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have
1 or 2 dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the
3rd and just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.

I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.

Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no
error messages or anything!

I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this
also made no difference.

Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?

Thanks

.................................................. ..........................**..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>'; echo
"<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>"; echo "<option
value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed); while($row =
mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED'; echo "<option
value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

Does the behaviour change when you fetch associative arrays only?
(mysql_fetch_assoc())
Extract() will work with numerically indexed arrays only if
EXTR_PREFIX_ALL or EXTR_PREFIX_INVALID are used as extract-type. I would
not recommend stuffing the symbol table by using extract on each row. I
don't know how many fields each record has, I'd either reference the
required row elements directly or use
list ($field1, $field2, ..., $fieldN)= $row;

--
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[Remove the lowercase part of Spamtrap to send me a message]

"strcmp('apples','oranges') < 0"- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I can't see how extracting the data as associative arrays would help
in this instance since I restrict the row fetch to the 2 specific
fields I required. If as I suspect the issue I am having might relate
to the resource use then however I extract the data will equally load
the process save perhaps from extracting then echoing one record at a
time but of course this would have speed issues.

My first attempt to achieve this saw me extract just 2 fields from 310
records into a 2 dimensional array and then looping through those
arrays. What I can not get my head round is that this worked well for
2 dropdowns before stopping which suggests the overhead during the
extraction is not the issue or I would not have got 1 dropdown. The
overhead or resource issue must therefore be related to the pushing of
this data through further identical processes onto the screen.

Thanks for your suggestion.

[Shutey]

On 17 Jun, 12:51, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Shutey wrote:

On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:

Shutey :

>I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.
I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.
Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!
I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.
Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?
Thanks
.................................................. ..........................**..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.

$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

Thanks for your interest

310 items in a single dropdown is a lot - and 5 dropdowns with the same
items is going to generate a lot of HTML. Not what I would call real
user-friendly, but it should still work.

You've shown the code for one of the dropdowns, which looks good. But
what about the other 4? How do you generate them, also?

You could also try the following - it will be a little more efficient
than your existing code. Not that there's anything wrong with your
existing code, but this might do something a little different:

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$x++; // Do you actually need $x?
if ($row['field1'] == $ref_variable1) // Just use the array value
$sel = ' SELECTED';
else
$sel = '';
echo "<option value='" . $row['field1'] . "'$sel>" . $row['field2'] .
"</option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

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Thanks for this Jerry, I can see where you are coming from and you are
right it does look more efficient but alas resulted in the same issue,
2 and a half dropdowns before stopping.

The $x method was born out of my first attempt, the code I posted was
my second. Initially I started by SQLing the data into a 2 dimentional
array and then looping through them 5 times but curiously this stopped
at exacting the same point within the 3rd dropdown as the code you
have seen and with the changes you have suggested.

As you say the 5 * 310 item dropdowns are somewhat top heavy but I
have a changing group (currently 310 and likely to grow) from which
individuals can choose up to 5 from. I could have one dropdown and
allow multiple choice but this is on an Intranet for (shall we say)
heavy handed individuals and I only have 1/3 of a 1280 x 800 screen to
fit the form on!

Thanks for you suggestion.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Shutey wrote:

On 17 Jun, 12:51, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>Shutey wrote:

>>On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:
Shutey :
I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2 on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate 2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.
I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.
Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!
I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.
Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?
Thanks
............................................... ............................**..............
Can you paste same code ?- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.
$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';
echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";
Thanks for your interest

310 items in a single dropdown is a lot - and 5 dropdowns with the same
items is going to generate a lot of HTML. Not what I would call real
user-friendly, but it should still work.

You've shown the code for one of the dropdowns, which looks good. But
what about the other 4? How do you generate them, also?

You could also try the following - it will be a little more efficient
than your existing code. Not that there's anything wrong with your
existing code, but this might do something a little different:

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$x++; // Do you actually need $x?
if ($row['field1'] == $ref_variable1) // Just use the array value
$sel = ' SELECTED';
else
$sel = '';
echo "<option value='" . $row['field1'] . "'$sel>" . $row['field2'] .
"</option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

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Thanks for this Jerry, I can see where you are coming from and you are
right it does look more efficient but alas resulted in the same issue,
2 and a half dropdowns before stopping.

The $x method was born out of my first attempt, the code I posted was
my second. Initially I started by SQLing the data into a 2 dimentional
array and then looping through them 5 times but curiously this stopped
at exacting the same point within the 3rd dropdown as the code you
have seen and with the changes you have suggested.

As you say the 5 * 310 item dropdowns are somewhat top heavy but I
have a changing group (currently 310 and likely to grow) from which
individuals can choose up to 5 from. I could have one dropdown and
allow multiple choice but this is on an Intranet for (shall we say)
heavy handed individuals and I only have 1/3 of a 1280 x 800 screen to
fit the form on!

Thanks for you suggestion.

Well, I'm wondering if this is a server issue or a browser issue? I
don't think I've ever tried a page with that many options in dropdowns.
the fact it failed in exactly the same place leads me to believe it
might be a problem with the browser. The other option is maybe it's a
problem with the web server itself - but I wouldn't think so.

What happens if, instead of populating dropdowns, you just echo the
contents to the window. If it's a server issue I would expect it to
fail in about the same place. But if it's a browser issue I would
expect it to display the values.

IOW - just comment out the echo for the select tag and don't write the
option tags - just the two values. As far as PHP is concerned, the code
will be identical, but the browser will see something much different.

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On 17 Jun, 13:32, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Shutey wrote:

On 17 Jun, 12:51, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

Shutey wrote:
On 17 Jun, 09:31, Georgi Naumov <[e-mail]:
Shutey :
I have a strange issue with dropdowns. Using php4, mySQL5, Apache 2on
a fast XP pro PC, I have a form which requires 5 dropdowns populated
with indentical values. I extract the values using SQL and populate2
variables and use a for-next loop to create the dropdown. The dropdown
contains some 310 items! It works beautifully if I have 1 or 2
dropdowns but as soon as I add more it partially creates the 3rd and
just stops until it times out!
All 5 work because I have altered their positions but it always stops
part way through creating the 3rd dropdown.
I tried an alternative method by doing away with the variables and
constructing the dropdowns with a 'while' statement reading through
the results of my SQL and got exactly the same problem only 2 and a
bit dropdowns.
Stopping it running after a few seconds or several minutes makes no
difference, it seems to reach a certain point and just stop - no error
messages or anything!
I have tried increasing the resourses in my php.ini file but this also
made no difference.
Can anyone suggest an alternative or a fix?
Thanks
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Here's the code I am currently using, there are 4 more identical
'name=option2, 3, 4 and 5' but otherwise the same.
$qry = 'SELECT field1, field2 ';
$qry .= 'FROM database ';
$qry .= 'ORDER BY field1, field2;';
echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
extract($row);
$x+=1;
$sel = '';
if ($field1 == $ref_variable1) $sel = 'SELECTED';
echo "<option value='" . $field1 . "' $sel>" . $field2 . "</
option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";
Thanks for your interest
310 items in a single dropdown is a lot - and 5 dropdowns with the same
items is going to generate a lot of HTML. Not what I would call real
user-friendly, but it should still work.

You've shown the code for one of the dropdowns, which looks good. But
what about the other 4? How do you generate them, also?

You could also try the following - it will be a little more efficient
than your existing code. Not that there's anything wrong with your
existing code, but this might do something a little different:

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr>';
echo "<td>Label 1:</td>";
echo "<td><select name='option1' size='1'>";
echo "<option value=''></option>";
$x = -1;
$res = mysql_query($qry) or die("Query failed);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
$x++; // Do you actually need $x?
if ($row['field1'] == $ref_variable1) // Just use the array value
$sel = ' SELECTED';
else
$sel = '';
echo "<option value='" . $row['field1'] . "'$sel>" . $row['field2'] .
"</option>";
}
echo "</select></td>";
echo "</tr></table>";

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Thanks for this Jerry, I can see where you are coming from and you are
right it does look more efficient but alas resulted in the same issue,
2 and a half dropdowns before stopping.

The $x method was born out of my first attempt, the code I posted was
my second. Initially I started by SQLing the data into a 2 dimentional
array and then looping through them 5 times but curiously this stopped
at exacting the same point within the 3rd dropdown as the code you
have seen and with the changes you have suggested.

As you say the 5 * 310 item dropdowns are somewhat top heavy but I
have a changing group (currently 310 and likely to grow) from which
individuals can choose up to 5 from. I could have one dropdown and
allow multiple choice but this is on an Intranet for (shall we say)
heavy handed individuals and I only have 1/3 of a 1280 x 800 screen to
fit the form on!

Thanks for you suggestion.

Well, I'm wondering if this is a server issue or a browser issue? I
don't think I've ever tried a page with that many options in dropdowns.
the fact it failed in exactly the same place leads me to believe it
might be a problem with the browser. The other option is maybe it's a
problem with the web server itself - but I wouldn't think so.

What happens if, instead of populating dropdowns, you just echo the
contents to the window. If it's a server issue I would expect it to
fail in about the same place. But if it's a browser issue I would
expect it to display the values.

IOW - just comment out the echo for the select tag and don't write the
option tags - just the two values. As far as PHP is concerned, the code
will be identical, but the browser will see something much different.

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Problem solved! It was a resources issue. I had increased the
memory_limit in php.ini from the default 8M to 24M on the basis that I
was getting about 50% of the process to work therefore 3 time the
memory_limit should more than cope. When that didn't work I discarded
it as a solution especially as the dropdowns continued to stop in the
same place. More out of frustration than anything else I bumped it up
still further to 32M and it worked!

Now I need to discover a better way to resolve the massive dropdown
issue that doesn't require multiple pages or a screen refresh. Just
occasionally I do miss activeX controls (wash my mouth out!).

Thanks for your help

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Shutey)

>Problem solved! It was a resources issue. I had increased the
memory_limit in php.ini from the default 8M to 24M on the basis that I
was getting about 50% of the process to work therefore 3 time the
memory_limit should more than cope. When that didn't work I discarded
it as a solution especially as the dropdowns continued to stop in the
same place. More out of frustration than anything else I bumped it up
still further to 32M and it worked!

PHP usually complains ("memory limit exhausted ...") when it runs out of
memory.

You could also use memory_get_usage() to check how much memory your
scripts eats (for example you could insert such a call before and after
the creation of one dropdown to get its size).

Micha