Basically I've connected my PHP to the mysql database which loads a bunch of users names. I want to be able to click on any of the users name so I've hyperlinked them all through a while loop and . When I click one of the links it opens a new page but I would like to be able to tell which username I clicked on. I think I could do this by using $_GET but I'm getting the following errors:
<?php echo "$first" . " " . "$last";?>;
Also, what should I write in the new page? So far on the new page this is what I've wrote:
$first=$row['FName'];
$last=$row['LName'];
echo "USERNAME: " . "$first";
UPDATE:
echo "<tr>
<td><b><center>.$info['Name']."</td></center></b>
</tr>";
This also gives error, but I think it shouldn't? Maybe I've made a simple mistake with the " somewhere, please check if you can find
In your new page you would check $_GET variable to see if the keys are set.
You have link with usersProfile.php?firstname=somename&lastname=somelastname so the keys you are looking for are firstname and lastname.
You would have to check if the key is set in order to avoid getting undefined indexes.
Ex. $firstname = isset($_GET['firstname']) ? $_GET['fisrtname'] : null;
This checks if the key is set and if it is sets $firstname to the data from the url otherwise to null
If I understand your question correctly, it appears that you are trying to create a link for each user that will send you to a different or personal page when clicked.
In that case, it might be easier to simply query the entire table and have that set up in your html page as a separate .
For instance:
//Database connections
$query="SELECT * FROM userTable WHERE firstName = $firstname and lastName = $lastName";
//Change the query to whatever you want
$result = mysql_query($query)
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo "<a href='somepage.php'>" . $row['Username'] . "</a>";
}
This is just an example and a good amount would need to be added to it, but this more than likely would be easier for what you are trying to do. In this case, the loop would output all the names you have pulled from the database.
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I have created a booking system which uses a clients username from their log in to auto populate a user name field when making a booking. I am not sure of how to get other information like their full name and ID from the database into these fields. Below is the code I have used to verify log in and store their username:
<?php
// Start up your PHP Session
session_start();
// If the user is not logged in send him/her to the login form
if ($_SESSION["Login"] != "YES_client") {
header("Location: login.php");
}
$username = $_SESSION["username"];
?>
I have also implemented the user name in the field using the following code:
echo "<input type='text' name='name' class='form-control' id='FullInputName' value=" . $username . ">"
Is there something simple I am missing? I have tried various methods to display the full data like using $row["Client_ID"] etc but could not get this to work for only the client who is logged into the system. My SQL statement is as follows:
"SELECT * FROM client WHERE Client_username= $username"
I would like to use the Client_ID in the select statement also to make it Unique. I have tried but got various errors.
Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT
This is the code I have now tried to implement:
$query = "SELECT * FROM client WHERE Client_username='$username'";
echo $query;
$result = mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['Client_username'];
}
But it is not working correctly - I am receiving this error:
mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given
Starting with your query i think is not correct.
If you are selecting a row and the type is a VARCHAR you need to add single quotes like this:
"SELECT * FROM client WHERE Client_username= '$username'"
Later you can read the results like
(pseudocode) while($row = mysqli_fetch_array) $row['Client_username']
something like that.
Tell me if this works for you
What is happening is I think my code is selecting the data first (basically old data) then updating it but what I want is for it to update then select the data (new data). How can I do this?
I am going to post where it goes wrong and if you need the full code just ask:
$select_links = $db->query("SELECT pid, added_by,link_title,lid,link_order FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "homepage_links WHERE pid='$pid'
ORDER BY link_order DESC LIMIT $start,$show");
$check_link_count_rows = $db->num_rows($select_links);
echo "<b> You Current Have " . $check_link_count_rows . " Links On Your Page: </b><br>";
echo "<form action='' method='POST'>
";
while($select_links_array = $db->fetch_array($select_links)) {
$link_title_display = $select_links_array['link_title'];
$link_id_display = $select_links_array['lid'];
if(!$mybb->input["order_edit_$link_id_display"]) {
$link_order_display = $select_links_array['link_order'];
} else {
$link_order_display = $mybb->input["order_edit_$link_id_display"];
}
$order_edit_value1 = $mybb->input["order_edit_$link_id_display"];
$order_edit_value = $db->escape_string($order_edit_value1);
echo "<br>" . $link_title_display . " <a href='?operation=edit_links&link=$link_id_display'> (edit) </a>
<input type='number' name='order_edit_$link_id_display' value='$link_order_display' style='width:40px;'>
<input type='hidden' name='get_link_id_display_value_$link_id_display' value='$link_id_display'><br>
";
$get_link_id_display_value1 = $mybb->input["get_link_id_display_value_$link_id_display"];
$get_link_id_display_value = $db->escape_string($get_link_id_display_value1);
$update_quick_edit_query = $db->query("UPDATE spud_homepage_links SET link_order='$order_edit_value'
WHERE lid='$get_link_id_display_value'");
}
I cannot find a solution as everything is in the right place for it to work besides this bug.
After a discussion in the comments, I determined that you were attempting to render a page after a post form submission that amends the database. It is perfectly possible to re-read your new database state and render it in a post operation, but it is inadvisable, since browsers cannot refresh the page without asking you if you wish to run the operation again. This does not make for a good user experience, especially in relation to using the back/forward buttons.
The reason for this behaviour is that post operations generally modify the database. They are used for example in credit card purchases or profile amendments where some change in the state of the server is expected. Thus, it is good practice to execute a new round-trip to the server, after the write operation, to change the page method from post to get.
The header() call I linked to will do this, and will resolve your rendering problem too.
I want to use one single page with pre-defined divs, layout etc. as basis so that when a product is clicked on from elsewhere it loads that product info onto the page?
They way im doing it ill be sitting here till about 2020 still typing out product info onto pages.
EDIT*************
function product ()
{
$get = mysql_query ("SELECT id, name, description, price, imgcover FROM products WHERE size ='11'");
if (mysql_num_rows($get) == FALSE)
{
echo " There are no products to be displayed!";
}
else
{
while ($get_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($get))
{
echo "<div id='productbox'><a href=product1.php>".$get_row['name'].'<br />
'.$get_row['price']. '<br />
' .$get_row['description']. '<br />
' .$get_row['imgcover']. "</a></div>" ;
}
}
}
In addition one problem I have with that code is that the <a href> tag only goes to product1.php. Any ideas how I can make that link to blank product layout page that would be filled with the product info that the user has just clicked on, basically linking to itself on a blank layout page.
Thanks any help would be great!
Thanks Maxyy
Since you dont have code this is a general way of doing this. What you want is a template for the product page
Query the database
load the data into a variable
make a script that will print out the data from the variable into a product page
somescript.php
<?php
$productid = $_REQUEST['productid']; //Of course do sanitation
//before using get,post variables
//though you should be using mysqli_* functions as mysql_* are depreciated
$result = mysql_query("select * from sometable where id='{$productid}");
$product = mysql_fetch_object($result);
include("productpage.php");
productpage.php
<div class="Product">
<div class="picture"><img src="<?php echo $product->imghref;?>" /></div>
<div class="price"><?php echo $product->price;?></div>
</div>
so on and so fourth. Included scripts use whatever variables are currently in the scope of the calling function
If you are meaning to load the products into the same page without doing another page load you will need to use ajax. Which is javascript code that use XHR requests to return data from a server. You can either do pure javascript or a library like jQuery to simplify the process of doing a xhr request by using $.ajax calls.
I know this question has been asked over 4 years ago, but since there's been no answer marked as right, I thought I might chip in.
First, let's upgrade from mysql and use mysqli - my personal favorite, you can also use PDO. Have you tried using $_GET to pull the id of whatever product you want to see and then displaying them all together or one at a time?
It could look something like this:
<?php // start by creating $mysqli connection
$host = "localhost";
$user = "username";
$pass = "password";
$db_name = "database";
$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $user, $pass, $db_name);
if($mysqli->connect_error)
{
die("Having some trouble pulling data");
exit();
}
Assuming the connection was made successfully we move on to checking for an ID being set. In this case I check it via an URL param assumed to be id. You can make it more complex, or take a different approach here.
if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
$id = htmlentities($_GET['id']);
$query = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = " . $id;
}
else
{
// if no ID is set, just bring all the results down
// then you can modify how, and which table the results
// are being used.
$query = "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id"; // the query can be changed to whatever you would be prefer
}
Once we have decided on a query we go on to start querying the database for information. I have three steps:
Check query >
Check table for records >
Loop through roles and create an object for each.
if($result = $mysqli->query($query))
{
if($result->num_rows > 0)
{
while ($row = $result->fetch_object())
{
// you can set up your element here
// you can set it up in whatever way you want
// to see your product being displayed, by simply
// using $row->column_name
// each column becomes an object here. So your id
// column would be pulled using $row->id
echo "<h1>" . $row->name . "</h1>";
echo "<p>" . $row->description . "</p>";
echo "<img src=" . $row->image_path . ">";
// etc ...
}
}
else
{
// if no records match the selected ID
echo "Nothing to see here...";
}
}
else
{
// if there's a problem with the query
echo "A slight problem with your query.";
}
$mysqli->close(); // close connection for safety
?>
I hope this answers your question and can help you if you are still stuck on this problem. This is the bare skeleton of what you can do with MySQLi and PHP, you could always use some Ajax to make the page more interactive, and user-friendly.
Adding content to a page on click needs to be done in either Javascript or in JQuery.
You can use ajax call to retrive the needed data from php page, Syntax is here.
Or you can also load a php page to a div content with .load() function in JQuery, Syntax is here.
I am working on something it has 2 pages. One is index.php and another one is admin.php.I am making CMS page where you can edit information on the page yourself. Then it will go to the database, where the information is stored. I also have to have it where the user can update the information on the page. I am getting a little bit confused here.For instance here I am calling the database and I am starting a function called get_content:
<?php
function dbConnect(){
$hostname="localhost";
$database="blank";
$mysql_login="blank";
$mysql_password="blank";
if(!($db=mysql_connect($hostname, $mysql_login, $mysql_password))){
echo"error on connect";
}
else{
if(!(mysql_select_db($database,$db))){
echo mysql_error();
echo "<br />error on database connection. Check your settings.";
}
else{
return $db;
}
}
function get_content(){
$sql = "Select PageID,PageHeading,SubHeading,PageTitle,MetaDescription,MetaKeywords From tblContent ";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row =mysql_fetch_assoc($query,MYSQL_ASSOC)){
$title =$row['PageID'[;
$PageHeading =$row['PageHeading'];
$SubHeading = $row['SubHeading'];
$PageTitle = $row['PageTitle'];
$MetaDescription =$row['MetaDescription'];
$MetaKeywords = $row['MetaKeywords'];
?>
And then on the index page and I am going to echo it out in the spot that someone can change:
<h2><?php echo mysql_result($row,0,"SubHeading");?>A Valid XHTML and CSS Web Design by WG.</h2>
I do know that the function is not finished I am still working on that part. What I am wondering is am I echoing it out right or I am way off. This is my first time messing with CMS in php and I am still learning it. I am working with navicat and text pad on this, yes I know it is old school but that is what I am being shown with. But my index is a form not a blog. I have seen many of CMS pages for blogs not to many to be used with forms. Any input will be considered thanks for reading my question.
Your question is a bit confusing and your code very incomplete. I'ts hard to say if you do it the right way since I don't see the rest of the script. You need to connect to the database there as well and get your data. The $row variable only exists in the while statement inside you function get_content() though.
You could complete the get_content() and use it in the index.php as well. Remember that the variables you define inside a function only is available there though. If you need the data outside that function you need to return the values you need and save them to some other variable there. Put if you do the same as you've started doing in the get_content() function in index.php, then you just have to echo the variables you define. Like this:
<h2><?php echo $SubHeading; ?></h2>
or you could also do it like this somewhere inside the php tags:
echo '<h2>{$SubHeading}</h2>';
I hope that answers your question.
EDIT:
What you need in the index.php page is exactly what you seem to be doing in the admin file. You need to connect to db using mysql_connect() and select db with mysql_select_db(). You then need to select the data from the db using the appropriate query with $query = mysql_query($sql). If it's more then one row you want to display you need to put it in a while loop otherwise (which seems to be the case here) you just need to do one $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query). After that you can get the data using $row['column_name']. If you have more than one row you can just use $row['column_name'] in side the while loop to get each consecutive row's data.
Here is an example index.php:
<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password') or
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('database_name')) or die('Could not select database: ' .
mysql_error());
$sql = "SELECT SubHeading FROM tblContent WHERE PageID='1' LIMIT 1;";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
echo '<h2>{$row[\'SubHeading\']}</h2>';
mysql_close();
?>
This is just what you need to display the SubHeading from you database. You probably also need to handle your form and save the submitted data to the database in your admin.php file.
Please could someone help im building my first website that pulls info from a MySQL table, so far ive successfully managed to connect to the database and pull the information i need.
my website is set up to display a single record from the table, which it is doing however i need some way of changing the URL for each record, so i can link pages to specific records. i have seen on websites like facebook everyones profile ends with a unique number. e.g. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=793636552
Id like to base my ID on the primary key on my table e.g. location_id
ive included my php code so far,
<?php
require "connect.php";
$query = "select * from location limit 1";
$result = #mysql_query($query, $connection)
or die ("Unable to perform query<br>$query");
?>
<?php
while($row= mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
<?php echo $row['image'] ?>
<?php
}
?>
Thanks
Use $_GET to retrieve things from the script's query (aka command line, in a way):
<?php
$id = (intval)$_GET['id']; // force this query parameter to be treated as an integer
$query = "SELECT * FROM location WHERE id={$id};";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
echo 'nothing found';
} else {
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
echo $row['image'];
}
There are many things to consider if this is your first foray into MsSQL development.
SQL Injection
Someone might INSERT / DELETE, etc things via using your id from your url (be careful!, clean your input)
Leaking data
Someone might request id = 1234924 and you expected id = 12134 (so some sensitive data could be shown, etc;).
Use a light framework
If you haven't looked before, I would suggest something like a framework (CodeIgniter, or CakePHP), mysql calls, connections, validations are all boilerplate code (always have to do them). Best to save time and get into making your app rather than re-inventing the wheel.
Once you have selected the record from the database, you can redirect the user to a different url using the header() function. Example:
header('Location: http://yoursite.com/page.php?id=123');
You would need to create a link to the same (or a new page) with the URL as you desire, and then logic to check for the parameter to pull a certain image...
if you're listing all of them, you could:
echo "" . $row['name'] . ""
This would make the link.. now when they click it, in samepage.php you would want to look for it:
if (isset($_GET['id']) && is_numeric($_GET['id'])) {
//query the db and pull that image..
}
What you are looking for is the query string or get variables. You can access a get variable through php with $_GET['name']. For example:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=793636552
everything after the ? is the query string. The name of the variable is id, so to access it through your php you would use $_GET['id']. You can build onto these this an & in between the variables. For example:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=793636552&photo=12345
And here we have $_GET['id'] and $_GET['photo'].
variables can be pulled out of URL's very easily:
www.site.com/index.php?id=12345
we can access the number after id with $_GET['id']
echo $_GET['id'];
outputs:
12345
so if you had a list of records (or images, in your case), you can link to them even easier:
$query = mysql_query(...);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
for ($num=0;$num<=$numrows;$num++) {
$array = mysql_fetch_array($query);
echo "<a href=\"./index.php?id=". $row['id'] ."\" />Image #". $row['id'] ."</a>";
}
that will display all of your records like so:
Image #1 (links to: http://www.site.com/index.php?id=1)
Image #2 (links to: http://www.site.com/index.php?id=2)
Image #3 (links to: http://www.site.com/index.php?id=3)
...