PHP/SQL Per-Person Search - php

Question

How would i do a 'per-person search' using PHP? I have it at the moment working, but i want to be able to go to this: /profile/JohnSmith, or something similar.
At the moment i have it like this (probs not the most efficient way but it works):
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data_players_sg WHERE player LIKE '%" . $name . "%'";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
echo "<br /><h3>Survival Games Stats</h2>";
echo "<div id=containter class=CSSTableGenerator>";
echo "<table id=player_profile cellspacing=15><tr><th>Points</th><th>Wins</th><th>Losses</th><th>Kills</th><th>Deaths</th><th>KDR</th></tr>";
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
if($row["player"] == $name) {
$UUID = $row["uuid"];
echo "<tr><td>" . $row["points"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row["wins"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row["losses"] . "</td>";
$kills = $row["kills"];
$deaths = $row["deaths"];
$kdr = $deaths != 0 ? $kills / $deaths : $kills;
echo "<td>" . $kills. "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $deaths. "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $kdr. "</td></tr>";
}
}
} else {
echo "<tr><td>Player not found</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>";
}
echo "</table></div>";
Which is called when they search, and this works fine. Except it means you have to search in the search bar every time you want to get to this page, instead of being able to go straight to the page with a URL.
So in short i want it to create a page per person, which is their profile.

Answer 1

First of all, you can start by creating a new page, called profile.php or something similar. Next, use a combination of a .htaccess rewrite of the url (for example, example.com/player-name will be rewritten to example.com/profile.php?url=player-name, and a GET statement in your profile.php to retrieve this player-name. Use this name, id or url to match with data in your database. Use a query like this:
$x=$_GET["url"];
$query = "SELECT * FROM data_players_sg WHERE playername =".$x;
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, $query))
{
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$UUID = $row["uuid"];
echo "<tr><td>" . $row["points"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row["wins"] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row["losses"] . "</td>";
$kills = $row["kills"];
$deaths = $row["deaths"];
$kdr = $deaths != 0 ? $kills / $deaths : $kills;
echo "<td>" . $kills. "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $deaths. "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $kdr. "</td></tr>";
}
}
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Motbrok