PHP getting data from mysql database for the Query string variable - php

Question

Here is what I would like to do; I am passing an encoded data as a query variable to my webpage, then in my php page, I am decoding the data and checking the same in my database. The code I am using is shown below:
<?php
// Get the ID from URL.
$id = ( isset($_GET["id"]) && !empty($_GET["id"]) ? $_GET["id"] : "");
// If "id" is not empty, proceed.
if(!empty($id)) {
$id = base64_decode($id);
global $wpdb;
$res = $wpdb->query("SELECT * FROM S_redirect WHERE source = ".$id);
$tot = count($res);
echo $tot . " records found.";
for( $i=0; $i<count($res); $i++) {
echo $res[$i]->id;
}
exit;
}
else {
echo "No ID";
exit;
}
?>
I have one record in my database. The above code correctly says "1 records found". I am not sure how to get the value of the field in that row. I have 3 columns, they are id, field1 and field2. The code "echo $res[$i]->id" returns nothing.
Please help
BTW, I am trying this in my Wordpress blog.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I tried your suggestions and here are my results:
$res = $wpdb->query("SELECT * FROM S_redirect WHERE source = ".$id);
$tot = count($res);
echo $tot . " records found."."</br>";
it says 1 records found.
$res = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM S_redirect WHERE source = ".$id);
$tot = count($res);
echo $tot . " records found."."</br>";
it says 0 records found.
$res = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM S_redirect WHERE source = ".$id);
$tot = count($res);
echo $tot . " records found."."</br>";
it says 0 records found.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
echo $row[0];
}
If I use mysql_fetch_array,
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/myfolder/mytheme/index.php on line 38.
line 38 is while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {.
What I am trying to accomplish:
I have a wordpress blog. All the above code goes into my index.php. I will pass a product id to my index.php via query string variable. I have created a new table called S_redirect in my wordpress database. I will retrieve the value of query string variable id and check the same in my database table. If record exists, then retrieve one of the column value (url of the product) from that table row and redirect to that product url. If the record doesn't exists then redirect to home page. hope this helps everyone to understand what I am doing.

Answer 1

Judging by $wpdb, it looks like this is a WordPress. Hopefully this will help:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpdb_Class
Update
Don't use count() to get the number of rows; use $wpdb->num_rows (no () because it's a property, not a function). The count() function always returns 1 for any non-null value that it doesn't recognize as a "countable" value (i.e., arrays and certain objects), so it's likely your code will always yield 1.
$tot = $wpdb->num_rows;
=====
If you run your query with get_results() instead of query(), then you can loop through the results like this:
foreach ($res as $row) {
echo $row->id;
}
Ultimately, I think your code will end up looking like this:
$res = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM S_redirect WHERE source = ".$id);
$tot = $wpdb->num_rows;
echo $tot . " records found.";
foreach ($res as $row) {
echo $row->id;
}
Disclaimer: This is untested, as I've never used WordPress. This is just how I understand it from the documentation linked above. Hopefully it at least gets you on the right track.

Answer 2

Use:
$tot = count(mysql_fetch_array($res));
or
$tot = mysql_num_rows($res);
The best is
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)){
echo $row['column_name'];
}