I have a contact form with different section like:
My form has three fixed fields class1, class2, class3 and there is a button through which user can add more input fields, So how do I structure my database to store those additional fields
and these forms are user specific i.e there is a user table as well
FORM ID | USER ID
1 1
2 2
3 1
So there can be multiple form as well for a user.
<input name="x1" id="section[class1][section_name]" />
<input name="x2" id="section[class2][section_name]" />
<input name="x3" id="section[class3][section_name]" />
above input field are used to store section name .
I am new in database structure so Any kind of link or reference would be appreciated.
This is just an idea I had:
First, create a table called custom_fields with the following fields:
field_name of type varchar/text
field_value of type varchar/text
field_type of type varchar/text
form_id of type integer
Second, make sure that your forms table has a user_id of type integer in it and that your users table that the user does indeed has an id.
Now, just use the ids to store the values to the appropriate form.
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I want to develop an web-service where a user can add tickets. Every ticket has got an input text field title and a textarea description. If the user klick the save button, the data will be saved in a mysql database.
The admin has got an admin panel. He can add or remove input fields in this admin panel to change the add ticket view form the user.
For example: The admin adds a select field category. You can select category A, B or C. If you select category A, there will be a new input text field called animal. If you select category B, nothing happens. If you select category C, there will be 2 new fields: A text field and a number field. The number field is required. And so on, and so on. After a week, the admin could remove some fields, or add a category or... To conclude, the admin can add and remove select, text, number, password,... fields to the add ticket section with relationships, length and requirements.
I dont know how to structure the database and to save the data. I think about something like a mysql table tickets with title, desc, and data and put an XML / JSON String to the data field and another table ticketFields with name (category, animal,...), type (text, number,...), required (yes/no), length (int), data (to store data for select fields). The problem is, that the relationships are missing in this model. So how can I save this data efficient?
The relational model might look like this:
Ticket:
id PK
Answer:
ticketId FK PK
fieldId FK PK
value
Field:
id PK,
name,
parentFieldId NULL FK,
parentFieldValue NULL,
type,
required,
min NULL,
max NULL,
range NULL
(...other "constraint" fields, checked regarding choosen type)
At first, fields with parentFieldId of NULL are displayed. Fields having parentFieldId set are shown only if the answer for parent field is given. Fields having parentFieldId and parentFieldValue set are displayed if the answer for parent field is given and it equals parentFieldValue.
Given answer is checked regarding to field's type (e.g. if type is "number" then the answer must be a number between min and max).
You can create another table with id, category and field for the admin to use and relate them both using a common id field, preferably primary key. Now, this table can be queried for the reference of new categories inserted against a particular id in your main table. Use javascript/jquery to dynamically create html code for the new fields and show them on your page.
Suppose your the user selects Option 'A', then the new table can be queried to see if there are any fields set by the admin against the option 'A'. If yes, retrive those fields and show them to the user.
I am learning Joomla-Development at the Moment and try to Set up a little component.
In the backend there is a form which consists of 2 fields. Field One should be saved into table 1 - Field 2 should be saved into table 2.
Field 1 is a text-field, which should be saved into table #__mycomponent_table1, field 2 is a Textarea, which should be saved into table #__mycomponent_table_2.
Table 1 already has got a overwritten store()-method. How can I Save the data of the field into another table?
Thanks in Advance :)
I solved it by overwriting the save-method in the model. You can call a second table and save the data after binding it.
You will need to override the save method in the controller - in that method you will need to save the data manually to the database.
Edit:
In your template file, add:
<?php echo JHtml::_('form.token'); ?>
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_yourcomponent" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="yourview.submit" />
This will ensure that your website calls the "submit" function in the controller.
I'll try to explain my problem and let´s see if I get some help.
I`m trying to design a DB. This data base will contain users and forms but my problem is how to design it to save forms.
The forms will be created by the administrator when he needs them, so in the DB I have a table to save the form name. Another table with all the possible fields for all the forms and another table where form-names and fields will be save so I can see all the field that a determinated form has.
An example: In FormName table I have 3 form names: Personal Info, Computer Knowledgement and hobbies. And in Fields table I have, for example, Name, Address, Phone, Operating Systems, Programming, Bike ridding, playing pc games.
I decide to create a form with name number 1 (Personal info) and fields number 1,2,3 (Name, Address, Phone). This information is recorded in another table called full-form where it´s saved form name id and field id. This is pretty clear for me (perhaps I´wrong).
The tricky part comes now. Some user decide to fill the personal info form so the name of the form and each field will has to displayed. When the user fill the form it has to be saved some way so the administrator can see the name of the form, each field that that form has, who filled the form and the information written in each field. And all this should be displayed not only in the DB but in some different way like a table, for example.
By the way... I´m using cakephp and mysql.
Thanks in advance,
Abraham
As far as I understand, setup looks like this. As you said, we have 3 tables:
'formname' = id, name (for form names)
'formfields' = id, fieldname, attributes (for form names, added attributes in case you need them)
'forms' = id, formname_id, formfields_id, formfields_order (ready forms and possibility to order field in form)
And also you should create additional table where to store submitted values
'forms_values' = id, forms_id, value (in this case one row for each field)
If you want to relate those values to specific user, one more table should be created
'users_forms' = forms_values_id, user_id
Of course there should be users table as well.
My suggestion is to drop table 'formnames' and put form name in 'forms' table.
Then table 'forms' will contain
id, form_name, formfields_id, formfields_order
Hope this answer will put you forward :)
I have a form that, upon being submitted via POST, needs to be inserted into two separate tables based on the field. Each field needs to be added as its own line.
Imagine a survey; there are four sections total. For each question within a section, the user selects a value between 1 and 5. There is also an optional notes text area at the bottom of each section.
Each question has its own unique ID in the database in a "questions" table. These questions contain the ID of the section ("sections" table) it belongs to for reference.
Question 1:
How can I insert each answer as its own row in a table called "answers" with the ID of the question?
The structure for "answers" looks like:
id (AI) | question_id | value (user submitted, 1-5) | response_id
Question 2:
How can I then insert each note for each section into a table called "notes" with the id of each section?
The structure for "notes" looks like:
id (AI) | section_id | value (user submitted) | response_id
Response_id is the resulting ID of inserting the user's response into a table called "responses." This table ties it all together for outputting the results for each user submitted response.
Thanks in advance.
You might want to use an array to keep track of the ids you need.
Your HTML block should look something along the lines of:
<h3>Question '.$questionId.': Your question title here</h3>
<input type="hidden" name="question_id" value="'.$questionId.'" /> //Not necessary, but just to show you that a hidden field can be useful too
<input type="text" name="answer['.$questionId.']" />
Then you just use the $_POST data as a regular array, in a for loop or in a big query (better performance depending on the amount of fields/data you are dealing with).
More info on multidimensional arrays in this post: Submitting a multidimensional array via POST with php
You can do one thing like this may be. You said you have question id for each question right so when user selects answer give name to each question like this
name = "question[<?php echo $question_id ?>]"
<select name="cars">
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
For the not just give simple name. When user submits it take the entire question[$ids] array loop through each id and insert into answers table using question id. You need to little bit of array operations.
For Notes you just use section id for in the name field and insert into database normally.
There are number of records which I gather them from mysql say thease:
id name mark
1234 john 18
53 smith 12
324 mike 15
...
I want to build a form to give ability to edit(update) all marks at once
I know that I can show them at the form using textbox value property.
But how can I Identify the exact same record when I want to process the posted form, in order to update the correct filed? and surly, I don't know how many records are there in the form.
The idea might be identifying the records through the id field.
but how to do that?
If this application is for administrative use only:
<input type="hidden" name="id" id="id" value="_ID_VALUE_" />
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="_NAME_VALUE_" />
<input type="text" name="mark" id="mark" value="_MARK_VALUE_" />
then
UPDATE table SET mark = '_SANITIZED_MARK_VALUE_' WHERE id = "_SANITIZED_ID_VALUE_";
If it's an application for the end user, you don't want to trust that he/she won't change the value of the hidden input. In this case, you'll most likely want to store the id, name, and mark in a $_SESSION variable and do comparisons on the post to figure out which record pertains to which id, and then build your update statement accordingly.
When you build your form, use the ID from the database as part of each text field's NAME attribute. Then when you receive your array of posted values, you can process the keys to find out the ID of the record you should be updating. For example, you could have your fields named "record-1234", "record-53", etc. Then you would iterate over the keys in $_POST, split them on "-" and use the resulting IDs in your UPDATE query.