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PHP using data from table.

Hi,

I have a PHP script that calculates an employees potential bonus, based on the figures that are entered in my html form.

The form is used to calculate an employees bonus. The form asks the following questions.

Market
What is your salary
What is review score
What is the customer satisfaction score

However to get their potential bonus the company profits figure needs to be pulled from my mysql table. This figure is not entered by the user however it is inserted using another PHP form used by their managers. This form works well.

So my calculation would look like

Salary * review * customer satisfaction * profit factors

My table for the company profits looks like this
Market Profit_Factor
UK 50
BE 200
FR 40

My first question is how can I include the profit factor figure into my calculation.
My second question is how can I tell PHP to use the profit factor that matches the market selected in my form.

<html>
<body>
 
<center>
 
<h2> ADD TWO NUMBERS! </h2>
 
<form action="addition.php" method="post">

<CENTER><input type="text"  name="salary_factor" id="salary_factor" /></center>


<td><select id="personal_factor" name='personal_factor'
   
    <option value="None">Please Select Value</option>
    <option value="135">Outstanding Review</option>
    <option value="120">Excellent</option>
    <option value="100">Good</option>
    <option value="75">Satisfactory</option>
    <option value="0">Unsatifactory</option>
 
  
   </select></td>


<td><select id="customer_factor" name='customer_factor'
   
    <option value="None">Please Select Value</option>
    <option value="115">90%</option>
    <option value="75">80%</option>
    <option value="50">>70%</option>
    <option value="0"><=60%</option>
 
  
   </select></td>




 =
<T><input type="submit" value="Answer is ->>" />
</form>

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<?php
$personal_factor = $_POST["personal_factor"];
$customer_factor = $_POST["customer_factor"];
$salary_factor = $_POST["salary_factor"];
$answer = $personal_factor * $customer_factor * $salary_factor;
 
echo $answer;
?>

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Dan560

ASKER

Hi I have modified the script slightly to connect to my DB..

However I get the following error messages..

Notice: Undefined variable: db in C:\xampp\htdocs\boncalc\addition.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_query() expects parameter 2 to be resource, null given in C:\xampp\htdocs\boncalc\addition.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_fetch_row() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in C:\xampp\htdocs\boncalc\addition.php on line 21
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Thanks in advance for your help.

<?php

$host="localhost"; // Host name 
$username="root"; // Mysql username 
$password=""; // Mysql password 
$db_name="bonuscalc"; // Database name 
$tbl_name="market_values"; // Table name

// Connect to server and select database.
mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect"); 
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB");


// You need the market info from your form
$market = $_POST["market"];

// Do SQL query to get market factor
$sql = "select profit_factor from market_values where marketname = '".$market."';";

$result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

// Get the profit from returned data
$profit_factor = $row['profit_factor'];

$personal_factor = $_POST["personal_factor"];
$customer_factor = $_POST["customer_factor"];
$salary_factor = $_POST["salary_factor"];



$answer = $profit_factor * $personal_factor * $customer_factor * $salary_factor;
 
echo $answer;
echo $profit_factor;
?>]

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Dan560

ASKER

Ok I've managed to solve it.

The first error I posted was because I could not connect to the DB I used the following code to help me debug that -

$result = mysql_query($sql, $db) or die (mysql_error());

secondly I got an error stating Undefined index on line 21

I had to change
mysql_fetch_row.
to mysql_fetch_assoc
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7895862/mysql-undefined-indexes-even-though-they-have-been-defined

Hopefully that info will be useful to someone.
However thanks for your help as it definitely set me on the right path.