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Help with loop to reset a field after form submission

Thread began 2/09/2012 11:29 am by iainmacdonald331081 | Last modified 2/10/2012 11:50 am by Jason Byrnes | 2464 views | 13 replies |

iainmacdonald331081

Help with loop to reset a field after form submission

Hope someone might be able to help with this. Its something that I'm pretty certain was working, but now no longer seems to be.

Basically the set up is that a site owner can select a number of contact using checkboxes to send an email out to people. (So its using Universal Email as well.)

The way its set up is that there's a database field 'Email List' and the site owner selected the contacts, setting that field to Y, and then the email is sent to everyone with Email List=Y.

And then once the email has been sent, there's a button which should reset the value of 'Email List' back to N, so that each time the system is used, its with a fresh list of contacts.

The problem is that the reset doesn't seem to be working anymore.

I have attached the page that should be doing this - not sure what's happened, as I'm sure it did work in the past.

The code that should be doing it is:

<?php
// WA DataAssist Multiple Updates
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") // Trigger
{
if (!session_id()) session_start();
$WA_loopedIDField = array("WADA_RepeatID_CandidateID");
$WA_connection = $connSearchTechUK;
$WA_table = "Candidates";
$WA_redirectURL = "admin.php";
$WA_keepQueryString = false;
$WA_indexField = "CandidateID";
$WA_fieldNamesStr = "EmailList";
$WA_columnTypesStr = "none,'Y','N'";
$WA_fieldNames = explode("|", $WA_fieldNamesStr);
$WA_columns = explode("|", $WA_columnTypesStr);
$WA_connectionDB = $database_connSearchTechUK;
$WA_multipleUpdateCounter = 0;
mysql_select_db($WA_connectionDB, $WA_connection);
while (WA_AB_checkLoopedFieldsNotBlank($WA_loopedIDField, $WA_multipleUpdateCounter)) {
$WA_fieldValuesStr = "".$row_rsEmail['N'] ."";
$WA_fieldValues = explode("|", $WA_fieldValuesStr);
$WA_where_fieldValuesStr = WA_AB_getLoopedFieldValue($WA_loopedIDField[0], $WA_multipleUpdateCounter);
$WA_where_columnTypesStr = "none,none,NULL";
$WA_where_comparisonStr = "=";
$WA_where_fieldNames = explode("|", $WA_indexField);
$WA_where_fieldValues = explode("|", $WA_where_fieldValuesStr);
$WA_where_columns = explode("|", $WA_where_columnTypesStr);
$WA_where_comparisons = explode("|", $WA_where_comparisonStr);
$updateParamsObj = WA_AB_generateInsertParams($WA_fieldNames, $WA_columns, $WA_fieldValues, -1);
$WhereObj = WA_AB_generateWhereClause($WA_where_fieldNames, $WA_where_columns, $WA_where_fieldValues, $WA_where_comparisons );
$WA_Sql = "UPDATE `" . $WA_table . "` SET " . $updateParamsObj->WA_setValues . " WHERE " . $WhereObj->sqlWhereClause . "";
$MM_editCmd = mysql_query($WA_Sql, $WA_connection) or die(mysql_error());
$WA_multipleUpdateCounter++;
}
if ($WA_redirectURL != "") {
if ($WA_keepQueryString && $WA_redirectURL != "" && isset($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) && $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] !== "" && sizeof($_POST) > 0) {
$WA_redirectURL .= ((strpos($WA_redirectURL, '?') === false)?"?":"&").$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];
}
header("Location: ".$WA_redirectURL);
}
}
?>



Thanks.

Attached Files
emailCanSent.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the value of the email list hidden element is set to Y:

php:
<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1?>" value="Y" <?php if (!(strcmp($row_rsEmail['EmailList'],"Y"))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?> />




change it to N

php:
<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1?>" value="N"  />
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iainmacdonald331081

Thanks Jason - that didn't seem to work.

I tried changing:

<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" value="Y" <?php if (!(strcmp($row_rsEmail['EmailList'],"Y"))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?> />



to

<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" value="N"  />



and also

<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" value="N" <?php if (!(strcmp($row_rsEmail['EmailList'],"N"))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?> />



But no luck with either.

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iainmacdonald331081

Thought I might have misread that yesterday, so also tried:

<input name="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" type="hidden" id="EmailList_<?php echo $RepeatSelectionCounter_1; ?>" value="N" <?php if (!(strcmp($row_rsEmail['EmailList'],"Y"))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?> />



But that didn't work either.

As I'm pretty sure it was working, I was trying to think of anything that might have changed - we moved the site over to new hosting at the end of last year, but that all seems to be OK - the database seems fine, along with adding / editing records etc on the site.

The only other thing I could think of was maybe to do with the PHP version running on the server - I know a couple of hosting companies that have recently upgraded - so for what its worth, the site is using PHP 5.3.10.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

just to make sure i understand correctly, when the reset button is pressed, you want to update every record in he table where the EmailList = Y to N?

for this you don't need to use a multiple record update, use the single record update instead.


set the trigger to happen on submit button pressed.

for the Key column, select the EmailList column, set the Value to Y

then on the second page of the update record behavior, set the value for the EmailList to N

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iainmacdonald331081

That's right Jason - the search selects the candidates to send the email to, by switching EmailList to Y. And the reset button should change them all back to N again.

Seems counter intuitive for it to be a single record update if there are multiple records to update / change back to N?

I tried it out, but still not working though - have attached that version of the file.

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emailCanSent2.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Can you send a screen shot showing the table structure for the Candidates table.

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iainmacdonald331081

Find attached...

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iainmacdonald331081

Not sure if that's shrunk it down, or if you can see the full size version. I've attached it zipped up here in case.

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candidates.zip
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

that screen shot is a little small so difficult o read, but it looks like the EmailList column does not use Y/N but rather Yes/No

can you send another screen shot showing one of the records that is set to Y and one that is set to N

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