On Saturday 12 January 2002 11:30, Mehmet Kamil ERISEN wrote:
> Hi,
> If I have en ENUM column in a mysql table, can I leverage
> this through PHP to restrict user entry with a list?
> Other option that I have is to create a lookup table, or
> use an array.

You'll need to adapt this for your own use, but hopefully you'll get the 
general idea.

#===========================================================
# create_list_from_ENUM
#-----------------------------------------------------------
# Returns array [enum vals]
#
# Arguments
# ---------
#
# $dbh    : a $dbh object defined in class.DBI.inc
# $table  : the table to get the ENUM values from
# $column : the column containing the ENUM values
#
#===========================================================
function create_list_from_ENUM($dbh, $table, $column) {
  $sth = $dbh->prepare("SHOW COLUMNS FROM $table LIKE '$column'");
  if ($sth) {
    $sth->execute();
    while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_hash()) {
      ereg("('(.*)')", $row[1], $temp);
      $array = explode( "','", $temp[2] );
      while (list ($key, $val) = each ($array)) {
        $return[] = "$val";
      }
    }
  }
  return $return;
}


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