I don't understand it... Please take a look.

If anyone can help me out, I'll be very thankful....

I try to make a drop-down box with all the names and e-mail addresses of the users of my board. One way of doing this, is by "hardcode" some new lines in member.php. Here's an example:

PHP Code:

// ######################## my new lines of code.... ########################

if ($action=="justatest") {
  include("./global.php");

$query = "SELECT * FROM user ORDER BY username, email";
$result = mysql_query($query);

// Determine the number of users

$number = mysql_numrows($result);

// Create drop-down menu of all users

print "<table cellpadding=20 bgcolor=\"lightgrey\">
     <tr>
       <td>
        <form action=\"displayresults.php\" method=\"post\">
          <select name=\"userid\">
            <option value=\"\">Select a user</option>";
            for($i=0; $i<$number; $i++) {
                          $userid = mysql_result($result,$i,"userid");
                          $username = mysql_result($result,$i,"username");
                          $email = mysql_result($result,$i, "email");

print "<option value=\"$userid\">$username - $email</option>";
  
   }

print "</select><input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\" name=\"submit\">
        </form>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>";

   } 

Well, unless I didn't do any typos, this will work as intended. But from here the problem starts. Instead of the print command, I want to call a new template for the output. This makes everything much easier to customize. All the standard templates is called like this in member.php:

PHP Code:

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("newtemplate")."\");"); 

I have successfully done this with several other new options for my users, but for some reason I am not able to get the correct result if I use while loops or ++ In the drop-down box example above, I only get the last user in the alphabet, which is the last record. How come??? I suspect another php file used to generate the templates interfering. Any ways around?

Please - if anyone have a clue, share your thoughts - even if it's just a wild guess... I've been struggling with this for sooooo long now.

Thank you

Please, just post a wild guess if you're unsure. Or let me know if I explained it too bad.

Thank you.

-net

[Admin]

You will need another template, in this case named newtemplatebit, that will be used inside the loop.
In that template put

PHP Code:

<option value="$user[userid]">$user[username] - $bbuserinfo[email]</option> 

At the end you call the main template, newtemplate. In that template you put

PHP Code:

<table cellpadding=20 bgcolor="lightgrey">
     <tr>
       <td>
        <form action="displayresults.php" method="post">
          <select name="userid">
            <option value="">Select a user</option>
            $newtemplatebit
            </select><input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
        </form>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table> 

Hope I helped.

Aha! While using 2 templates, it works like a breeze.... But your example of newtemplatebit is not working, it must be $userid, $username and $email (as that's what I used in member.php. And it took me some time to find a way to call the template correct - a "dooutput" is not working.... I still have some problems to solve, but I guess I can figure it out on my own.

Thanks a million for your time

[Admin]

dooutput is only done with the main template (newtemplate in this case). For the newtemplatebit it's a simple eval(), no dooutput.