Submitting Form using Dynamic Text Link - php

Question

I'm at lost. What I wanted to do is, I want my website to allow the users to select a certain row(records) in my database and then redirect them to another webpage that will show them the full information about that certain record.. I don't know how could I connect those two web pages together using dynamic table/text..
Below is a portion of my code: ( This is the first webpage: )
mysql_select_db($database_rfq_portal, $rfq_portal);
$query_rfqrecord = "SELECT tblrfq.`RFQ_ID`, tblrfq.`Company_Name`, tblrfq.Service,
tblrfq.`Kind_of_Request`, tblrfq.Status, tblrfq.`Date` FROM tblrfq";
$rfqrecord = mysql_query($query_rfqrecord, $rfq_portal) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rfqrecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($rfqrecord);
$totalRows_rfqrecord = mysql_num_rows($rfqrecord);
<form id="viewform" name="viewform" method="get" action="ViewSpecificRFQ.php">
<table width="716" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>RFQ ID</td>
<td>Company Name</td>
<td>Service</td>
<td>Kind of Request</td>
<td>Status</td>
<td>Date</td>
</tr>
<?php do { ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['RFQ_ID']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Company_Name']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Service']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Kind_of_Request']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Status']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Date']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } while ($row_rfqrecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($rfqrecord)); ?>
</table>
}
</form>
This is the webpage that will get the form..(portion of my code)
$RFQID = $_GET['RFQ_ID'];
mysql_select_db($database_rfq_portal, $rfq_portal);
$query_rfqrecord = "SELECT * FROM tblrfq WHERE $RFQID";
$rfqrecord = mysql_query($query_rfqrecord, $rfq_portal) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rfqrecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($rfqrecord);
$totalRows_rfqrecord = mysql_num_rows($rfqrecord);
mysql_select_db($database_rfq_portal, $rfq_portal);
$query_user = "SELECT tbluser.Username, tbluser.Password FROM tbluser";
$user = mysql_query($query_user, $rfq_portal) or die(mysql_error());
$row_user = mysql_fetch_assoc($user);
$totalRows_user = mysql_num_rows($user);
<table width="716" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">RFQ ID:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['RFQ_ID']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Company Name:</th>
<td width="511"><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Company_Name']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th width="101" rowspan="2" scope="row">Address:</th>
<th width="90" scope="row">Site A:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Address_A']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">Site B:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Address_B']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Contact Number:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Contact_Number']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Contact Person:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Contact_Person']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Service:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Service']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Bandwidth:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Bandwidth']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Telco:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Telco']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Account Manager:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Account_Manager']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Status:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Status']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Kind of Request:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Kind_of_Request']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Date:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Date']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" scope="row">Remarks:</th>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Remarks']; ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
this redirects the user to the next page but my problem is it keeps on showing the same record, which is the first record in my database.

Answer 1

1- Consider page1.php is the first page that user selects a record and then in page2.php you show full detail.
for page1.php
you need to send some parameters like record id or any other key in order to be able to identify the record and select the detail in database.
for example:
Record 1 once user clicked on this link you have to do something like this in page2.php, remember our parameter is record_id
<?php
$id = $_GET['record_id'];
//we have to check it for validity
//if id is an integer (numbers) then simply we can check it
//if(!is_numeric($id)) { die("invalid id") }
// now the id is there
//lets build query
$query = "SELECT * from tablename where id= '$id' ";
?>
for your code it must be like this:
//adding where clause
$query_rfqrecord = "SELECT * FROM tblrfq where RFQ_ID = '$id' ";
$rfqrecord = mysql_query($query_rfqrecord, $rfq_portal) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rfqrecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($rfqrecord);
$totalRows_rfqrecord = mysql_num_rows($rfqrecord);

Answer 2

If you want your users to get to load a specific record when they click a specific row, you have to be sure you're redirecting them to a specific url. In your sample you have <a href="ViewSpecificRFQ.php"> in your do-while, so every row in your table will have the same link and then the same destination page.
You probably want something like <a href="ViewSpecificRFQ.php?recordId=<?php echo $row_rfqrecord['RFQ_ID'] ?>"> and then in your landing page the query will be performed against the key you will have in $_GET['recordId'].
EDIT: The do-while problem
You use a do-while, and so in your first iteration you have no record loaded, because the fetch instruction is located at the bottom of the code block, so you should change it to:
<?php
while ($row_rfqrecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($rfqrecord)) {
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['RFQ_ID']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Company_Name']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Service']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Kind_of_Request']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Status']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_rfqrecord['Date']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>