I've scoured the web for a tutorial about this simple task, but to no avail. And so I turn to you helpful comrades. Here's what I need to do:
I have a MySQL database with an Events table. I need to create a PHP web page with a list of the Event titles, and each title must be a link to the full details of the Event. But I want to avoid having to create a static page for each event, primarily because I don't want the data entry volunteer to have to create these new pages. (Yes, I realize that static pages are more SEO friendly, but I need to forego that in this case for the sake of efficiency.)
I've seen PHP url syntax with something like this:
pagename.php?id=20
but I don't know how to make it work.
Any and all help greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Kip
This is basic php. You would simply query the DB for the event details before the page headers are written and write the html accordingly.
The first thing I would ask you is if you know how to connect to your database. From there, you query based on the $_GET['id'] value and use the results to populate your html.
Not to be rude, but the question itself suggests you're new to PHP, right? So in order to provide a solution that works we might want to know just how far you got.
Also, you can rewrite your dynamic urls to appear like static ones using apache's mod_rewrite. It's probably a novice level thing if you're interested in "pretty" url's.
MODIFIED ANSWER:
In your loop you would use the id from the query result (assuming your primary key is id)...
while($field = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<p class='date'>";
echo $field['month']." ".$field['day'].", ".$field['year'];
echo "</p>";
echo "<h3>";
echo ''.$field['event_name'].'';
echo "</h3>";
}
Then on somepage.php you would use the get var id to pull the relevant info...
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `calendar` WHERE `id` = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id'])."');
don't forget to look into mysql_real_escape_string() for cleaning entries.
It's wise to take extra care when you are using $_GETvariables, because them can be easily altered by a malicious user.
Following with the example, you could do:
$foo = (int)$_GET['id'];
So we are forcing here the cast of the variable to a integer so we are sure about the nature of the data, this is commonly used to avoid SQL injections.
lets say you have the php file test.php
<?php
$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");
mysql_select_db("db", $conn);
$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "select * from table where id = $id";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
if ($result){
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$title = $row[0];
$content = $row[1];
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><?php echo $title ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $content ?></p>
</body>
</html>
a dynamic page would be something like that..
Here is the pertinent code for extracting a list of events in November from a table named calendar, with each event having a link to a page called event.php and with the event's id field appended to the end of the url:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM calendar WHERE sort_month='11'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{echo
"<a href='event.php?id=".$row['id']."'>".$row['event_name']."</a>"
;}
And here is the pertinent code on the event.php page. Note the row numbers in brackets depends on the placement of such in your table, remembering that the first row (field) would have the number 0 inside the brackets:
$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "select * from calendar where id = $id";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $con);
if ($result){
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$title = $row[12];
$content = $row[7];
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><?php echo $title ?></h1>
<p><?php echo $content ?></p>
</body>
</html>
This works for me, thanks to the help from those above.
$foo=$_GET['id'];
in your example $foo would = 20
Related
Being a huge PHP newbie I find myself stuck here.
I have an HTML table for a videogame store filled with elements taken from my database.
The point is, I want to be able to add a link to the game title. Moreover I want the link to direct to some "gamePage.php", a php page used for every videogame but of course showing different infos for each game (title, console etc).
The fact is that not only I can't add the hyperlink, but I have no clue on how to carry the videogame infos when I click on a link (even managing to add the link, all I would manage to do would be redirecting the user to a blank gamePage.php with no title).
This is the code I use to fill the table (the restore function fills my table):
<html>
<body>
<div>
<table width = "550px" height = "300px" border="2" >
<tr bgcolor="#5f9ea0">
<td>Title</td>
<td>Console</td>
<td>Genre</td>
<td>Price</td>
</tr>
<?php
$conn = #pg_connect('dbname=project user=memyself password=project');
function search(){
<!-- Work in progress -->
}
function restore(){
$query = "SELECT v.Title , c.Consolename , g.Genrename , v.Price
FROM vg_shop.videogame v, vg_shop.console c, vg_shop.genre g
WHERE v.Console=c.IDConsole AND v.Genre=g.IDGenre";
$result = pg_query($query);
if (!$result) {
echo "Problem with query " . $query . "<br/>";
echo pg_last_error();
exit();
}
while($myrow = pg_fetch_assoc($result)) {
printf ("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>",
$myrow['title'], $myrow['consolename'], $myrow['genrename'], $myrow['price']);
}
}
<!-- some code -->
</body>
</html>
At first i tried to do this
while($myrow = pg_fetch_assoc($result)) {
printf ("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>",
$myrow['title'], $myrow['consolename'], $myrow['genrename'], $myrow['price']);
But all I get is a white page, there's some syntax error I don't get.
And, even if it worked, I still can't carry at least the videogame PID through the gamePage link
so, you're managing to go to gamepage.php somehow.
So you need to add some sort of identifier to your link you that you could do some query on the gamepage.php by using that identifier to get info for that particular game.
while($myrow = pg_fetch_assoc($result)) {
printf ("<tr><td><a href='gamePage.php?id=%s'>%s</a></td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>", $myrow['id'], $myrow['title'], $myrow['consolename'], $myrow['genrename'], $myrow['price']);
Note: I assume that you're picking $myrow['id'] from database as well.
now on your gamepage.php do following.
$id = $_GET['id'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM vg_shop.videogame WHERE `id` = $id";
$result = pg_query($sql);
if($result){
$result = pg_fetch_assoc($result):
//...
// echo "Name: ".$result['Title'];
// other fields
}
$result will have all info about that particular game that was clicked, you can display all as you want.
Cheers :)
I have the following code that works by outputting as a link ( the link comes from a field in my database) I wish to do the same for the code below, however i cannot get it work, here is the example of what I have that works, and the code that i wish to make output as a link:
Working Code what I want it to look like
if (!empty($_REQUEST['term'])) {
$term = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['term']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM adrenaline WHERE title LIKE '%".$term."%'";
$r_query = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($r_query)){
echo '<br> '. $row['title'] .'';
}
}
?>
And the code that i have at the moment, it works by be manually typing in the hyper link, however I wish to make it take the link from the database like the example above
//query the database
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hobby WHERE id = '1' ");
//ferch the results / convert results into an array
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
$title = $rows['title'];
echo "<a href='shard.php'>$title</a>";
endwhile;
?>
Many thanks!
I am not 100% certain if this is what you meant to ask... let me know in comments:
<?PHP
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hobby WHERE id = '1' ");
if(mysql_num_rows($query) >= 1) {
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
echo sprintf("%s", $rows["description"], $rows["title"]);
}
} else { echo "No hobbies found."; }
?>
I believe you might have faced some syntax issues while dealing with quotes parsing a variable in <a html tag. Consider using sprintf something like in my example.
I have also added a mysql_num_rows() just in case and you can see its a good fail-safe method incase there are no rews found on any select query.
IMPORTANT: STOP using mysql_ functions because its deprecated from new PHP versions. Use PDO or mysqli instead.
Well it's been my very first initiative to build a dynamic page in php. As i'm a newbie in php, i don't know much about php programming. i've made a database named "dynamic" and it's table name "answer" after that i've inserted four fields namely 'id', 'A1','A2', 'A3'.
I inserted the value in id=1 which are A1=1,A2 and A3-0,
In id=2, i have inserted A1=0, A2=1, A3=0
In id-3, i have inserted A1 and A2=0 A3=1
So now what i wanted is whenever i will click on the link of id=1 then it will display the content of id=1 and so on...
What i've done so far are:-
$conn= mysql_connect("localhost","root", "");
$db= mysql_select_db("dynamic", $conn);
$id=$_GET['id'];
$sql= "select * from answer order by id";
$query= mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo "<a href='dynamic.php?lc_URL=".$row['id']."'>Click Here</a>";
if($row['A1']==1)
{
echo "A1 is 1";
}
else if($row['A2']==1)
{
echo "A2 is 1";
}
else if($row['A3']==1)
{
echo "A3 is 1";
}
else {
echo "Wrong query";
}
}
?>
When i've executed this codes then it is showing me the exact id and it is going to the exact id but the values has not been changing..
I want whenever i will click on the id then it will display the exact value like if i click on id=2 then it will echo out "A2 is 1" nothing else....
Can anyone please help me out?
I also have noticed about
$id=$_GET['id'];
what is it and how to use it. Can anyone explain me out..
Thanks alot in advance:)
It may be best to start here to get a good understanding of php, before diving so deep. But to answer the specific questions you asked here...
The php $_GET variable is defined pretty well here:
In PHP, the predefined $_GET variable is used to collect values in a
form with method="get".
What this means is that any parameters passed via the query string (on a GET request) in the URL will be accessible through the $_GET variable in php. For example, a request for dynamic.php?id=1 would allow you to access the id by $_GET['id'].
From this we can derive a simple solution. In the following solution we use the same php page to show the list of items from the answer table in your database or single row if the id parameter is passed as part of the url.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "password", "dynamic");
$query = 'SELECT * FROM answer';
if ($_GET['id']) {
$query .= ' WHERE id = '.$_GET['id'];
} else {
$query .= ' ORDER BY id';
}
$res = $mysqli->query($query);
if ($res->num_rows == 0) {
echo '<p>No Results</p>';
} else if ($res->num_rows == 1) {
// Display Answer
$row = $res->fetch_assoc();
echo '<h3>Answer for '.$row['id'].'</h3>';
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li>A1 = '.$row['A1'].'</li>';
echo '<li>A2 = '.$row['A2'].'</li>';
echo '<li>A3 = '.$row['A3'].'</li>';
echo '</ul>';
} else {
// Display List
echo '<ul>';
while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc()) {
echo '<li>Answers for '.$row['id'].'</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
OK, this might not be exactly what you are looking for, but it should help you gain a little better understanding of how things work. If we add a little javascript to our page then we can show/hide the answers without using the GET parameters and the extra page request.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "password", "dynamic");
$query = 'SELECT * FROM answer ORDER BY id';
$res = $mysqli->query($query);
if ($res->num_rows == 0) {
echo '<p>No Results</p>';
} else {
// Display List
echo '<ul>';
while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc()) {
echo '<li>Answers for '.$row['id'].'';
echo '<ul id="answers_'.$row['id'].'" style="display:none;">';
echo '<li>A1 = '.$row['A1'].'</li>';
echo '<li>A2 = '.$row['A2'].'</li>';
echo '<li>A3 = '.$row['A3'].'</li>';
echo '</ul>';
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<script>
function toggleAnswers(answer) {
$('#answers_' + answer).toggle();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
There are many more solutions, each more complicated that what I've presented here. For example we could set up an ajax request to load the answers into the list page only when an item is clicked. My advice is to go through some beginner tutorials on php and look at some of the popular PHP frameworks: Zend, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, etc. Depending on what you overall goal is, one of these might really help you get there faster.
Be warned that the code provided here is only an example of how to accomplish what you were asking. It definitely does not follow all (if any) best practices.
I'm trying out my hand at php at the moment - I'm very new to it!
I was wondering how you would go about selecting all items from a mySQL table (Using a SELECT * FROM .... query) to put all data into an array but then not displaying the data in a table form. Instead, using the extracted data in different areas of a web page.
For example:
I would like the name, DOB and favorite fruit to appear in one area where there is already say 'SAINSBURYS' section hardcoded into the page. Then further down the next row that is applicable to 'ASDA' to appear below that.
I searched both here and google and cant seem to find an answer to my strange questions! Would this involve running the query multiple times filtering out the sainsburies data and the asda data where ever I wanted to place the relevant
echo $row['name']." ";
echo $row['DOB']." "; etc etc
next to where it should go?
I have got php to include data into an array (I think?!)
$query = "SELECT * FROM people";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo $row['name']." ";
echo $row['DOB']." ";
echo $row['Fruit']." ";
}
?>
Just place this (or whatever your trying to display):
echo $row['name']." ";
Anywhere you want the info to appear. You can place it within HTML if you want, just open new php tags.
<h1>This is a the name <?php echo $row['name']." ";?></h1>
If you want to access your data later outside the while-loop, you have to store it elsewhere.
You could for example create a class + array and store the data in there.
class User {
public $name, $DOB, $Fruit;
}
$users = new array();
$query = "SELECT * FROM people";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$user = new User;
$user->name = $row["name"];
$user->DOB = $row["DOB"];
$user->Fruit = $row["Fruit"];
$users[$row["name"]] = $user;
}
Now you can access the user-data this way:
$users["USERNAME"]->name
$users["USERNAME"]->DOB
$users["USERNAME"]->Fruit
I am having some difficulty using PHP with jQTouch. I am fairly
confident with JavaScript however my PHP skills are little to none.
I am creating an application for my final year project at University
what displays football rumours posted by different users. My problem
is as follows:
I have one screen that displays each individual rumour, using a while
loop in PHP I am able to get each rumour from the database and display
them correctly. However I want to be able to click on one rumour which
then displays this rumour in a different screen, along with options to
reply/share etc. However I do not know how to tell which rumour has
been clicked on.
Snippets of my code:
All rumours page:
<?php
$q1 = "SELECT * FROM tblrumours;";
$r1 = mysql_query($q1);
while( $row1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($r1) ){
?>
<a class="rumourTag submit" id="<?php echo $row1['rumourID']; ?>">
<div class='oneRumour'>
<div class='standardBubble'>
<p>
<?php
$userID = $row1['userID'];
$q2 = "SELECT * FROM tblusers WHERE userID = $userID;";
$r2 = mysql_query($q2);
while( $row2 = mysql_fetch_array($r2) ){
$username = $row2['username'];
$teamID = $row2['teamID'];
}
$q5 = "SELECT * FROM tblteams WHERE teamID = $teamID;";
$r5 = mysql_query($q5);
while( $row5 = mysql_fetch_array($r5) ){
echo "<img src='img/".$row5['teamPicture']."' alt=''
class='teamImg' />";
}
?>
<span class='username'>
<?php
echo $username;
?>
</span>
<br/>
<span class='rumourMsg'><?php echo $row1['rumourText']; ?></
span>
</p>
</div>
</a>
SINGLE RUMOURS PAGE:
<?php
$q1 = "SELECT * FROM tblrumours WHERE rumourID = 1;"; /* NEED
TO SELECT WHERE RUMOUR ID IS THE ONE THAT IS CLICKED */
$r1 = mysql_query($q1);
while( $row1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1) ){
?>..........
I have tried using Session variables, storing the ID's in an array,
creating a separate php file for the single rumour page, and all to no
avail. I am guessing I have to use AJAX in some way, but I have no
idea where to even begin. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
If you need to click on a rumour to see more details about it, you could always output in the HTML a unique value used to reference that rumour in the DB.
e.g. have <span class='rumourMsg' id='rumourName'> where rumourName is a unique value stored in your database to reference that rumour. Then when a user clicks to see more details, you can make a request to the PHP page with that value and return the content.
e.g. rumourDetails?rumourName=uniqueRumourName
(make sure to escape all your data properly to avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities.)