desc?

how would it know that I want the numeric in the db to be a menu item or
yes, no on the form?

Thanks,
Eddie

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Douville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:26 AM
To: Edward Peloke; Php-General
Subject: Re: [PHP] dynamically building insert/update forms from db


Why don't you have your script do a desc on the table you pass to it, parse
the results, and populate the data needed for your form building class?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Peloke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Php-General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:37 AM
Subject: [PHP] dynamically building insert/update forms from db


> I was up late last night creating insert and update forms for tables in my
> db and knew there had to be a better way.  I do have a class that will
> generate forms but I still have to create each input..i.e
> $forms->inputBox(), etc.  I want to be able to pass in a table name and
have
> a form returned to me.  How do other's handle this?  My first thought is
to
> have an xml file that maps the database columns to form elements such as
> text, radio, etc then when the class is called, it searches the xml file
for
> the passed in name and builds the appropriate form.  Is this the best way?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eddie
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