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POUse dropdown list selection as mySQL query parameter
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    copied!<p>I had asked a similar question a few days ago but think I was trying to do to much at one time. I am hoping someone can help get me started on this.</p> <p>I have two drop down lists, one will be populated with years (2012, 2011 etc) and I have some mySQL databases called "db_2012", "db_2011" etc. In these databases are tables representing months.</p> <p>I would like the user to select a year and then use that selection to query the correct db and return a list of table names which will be used to populate the second drop down list. Then click a button "See Results" to query the selected table and show the results.</p> <p>I am putting this on a wordpress website and am using a php template file that I created. This is still new to me and what I have so far doesnt work like I want it too, it is basically setup now that you select a year and select a month (not populated from db) and click a button. It makes the query and my table is displayed, but I need this solution to be more dynamic and work as described above. Thanks for the help.</p> <pre><code>echo '&lt;form action="" method="post"&gt;'; echo'&lt;select name="years" id="years"&gt;'; foreach($yearList as $year){ echo'&lt;option value="'.$year.'"&gt;'.$year.'&lt;/option&gt;'; } echo'&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'; echo '&lt;select name="monthList" id="months"&gt;'; foreach($monthList as $month) { echo'&lt;option value="'.$month.'"&gt;'.$month.'&lt;/option&gt;'; } echo '&lt;/select&gt;'; echo '&lt;input type=\'submit\' value=\'See Results\'&gt;'; echo '&lt;/form'&gt; </code></pre> <p>$yearList and $monthList are just pre populated arrays. So now from here I want to click the See Results button and query my sql database using the parameters from the drop down selections.</p> <pre><code>$database = $_POST['yearList']; $month = $_POST['monthList']; $wpdbtest_otherdb = new wpdb('Username', 'Password', $database, 'localhost'); $qStr = "SELECT * FROM $month"; $myResults = $wpdbtest_otherdb-&gt;get_results($qStr, OBJECT); </code></pre>
 

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