Get URL Parameter with PHP for Mysqli database search - php

Question

I'm trying to work out how to get the parameter from a URL with PHP.
So my code starts with a bit of ajax firing the php and an alert with the response:
$.ajax({
url: 'blog/assets/php/load-blog.php',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data){
alert(data);
}
});
Then I have my php:
<?php
//==== CONNECTION VARIABLE
$con = new mysqli($host,$user,$pass,$database);
//==== GET URL PARAMETER
$urlParam = $_GET["date"];
//==== FETCH DATA
$result = $con->query("SELECT * FROM $table WHERE DATE = '$urlParam'");
//==== CREATE ARRAY
$blogArray = array();
while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
$blogArray[] = $row;
}
//==== ECHO AS JSON
echo json_encode($blogArray);
?>
The URL would look something like this:
http://www.mysite.com/blog/?date=2013-05-14
The issue in all of this is the URL parameter isn't being selected correctly but I don't know what I've done wrong.

Answer 1

Javascript
var date = '2013-05-14';
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: 'blog/assets/php/load-blog.php',
dataType: 'json',
data: { date: date }
success: function(data){
alert(data);
}
});
PHP
<?php
//==== CONNECTION VARIABLE
$con = new mysqli($host,$user,$pass,$database);
//==== GET URL PARAMETER
$urlParam = $_GET["date"];
//==== PREPARED STATEMENT
$stmt = $con->prepare("SELECT id,name FROM __TABLE_NAME__ WHERE date = ?");
$stmt->bind_param("s", $urlParam );
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($id, $name);
//==== CREATE ARRAY
$blogArray = array();
//==== FETCH DATA
while ($stmt->fetch()) {
$blogArray[] = array(
'id' => $id,
'name' => $name
);
}
//==== CLOSE STATEMENT
$stmt->close();
//==== ECHO AS JSON
echo json_encode($blogArray);
?>