Edited: Retrieve Table entries by adding ID attribute to file name? - php

Question

I have a large database of venues - and I would like to display this data in one page that would only change in some sort of an attribute to the id: (Ex: venues.php?id=1, which would get all the data from row #1.)
Edit: Okay, I updated the code and this is what it looks like now:
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("") or die(mysql_error());
$id = (int) $_GET['id'];
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM venues WHERE id = ".(int)$id) ;
or die(mysql_error());
Print "<table border cellpadding=3>";
while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
Print "<tr>";
Print "<th>Name:</th> <td>".$info['VENUE_NAME'] . "</td> ";
Print "<th>Address:</th> <td>".$info['ADDRESS'] . " </td></tr>";
}
Print "</table>";
?>
And upon going to venues.php?id=1 I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LOGICAL_OR in
/home/nightl7/public_html/demos/venues/venues.php on line 8

Answer 1

Do you mean something like:
$id = (int) $_GET['id'];
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM venues WHERE id = ".(int)$id) ;

Answer 2

In order to "pass" the id into your url "venues.php?id=1"
You need to use a hybrid html/php form with method=get.
You can see an example html form here: w3schools html forms
This is what I would do:
print '<form name="input" action="venues.php" method="get">';
print 'Venue: <select name = "id">';
$con = mysql_connect("","","");
mysql_select_db($dataBase);
if (!$con){die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());}
else {
$opt = array();
$optVal = array();
$i = 0;
$sql = "Select * from venues";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$opt[$i] = $row['VenueName'];
$optVal[$i] = $row['VenueID'];
print "<option value='$optVal[$i]'>$opt[$i]</option>";
$i++;
}
}
mysql_close($con);
print '</select><br />';
print '<input type="submit" value="Submit" />';
print '</form>'
This will give you a form that will give you a drop down list of all your venues and once a venue is selected will direct you to the venues.php page with the respective id.
at the top of your venues,php page just use
$id = $_GET['id'];
This assigns the id number to the variable $id and then you can use this "select"
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM venues WHERE id = ".$id) ;
To collect your venue name from your database using the id supplied in the form.
Good Luck :)

Answer 3

<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("") or die(mysql_error());
$id = (int) $_GET['id'];
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM venues WHERE id = ".$id) or die(mysql_error());
Print "<table border cellpadding=3>";
while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
Print "<tr>";
Print "<th>Name:</th> <td>".$info['VENUE_NAME'] . "</td> ";
Print "<th>Address:</th> <td>".$info['ADDRESS'] . " </td></tr>";
}
Print "</table>";
?>