Topic awaiting preservation: PHP: querying mySQL db

I have an HTML page with a table containing two columns and about 12 rows of names, each name represents a query to the database for the records of that persons name. I have the query working on a stand alone page but I'm unsure how to make the links for each person's name query each person's unique set of records.

You mean you want to have the name link to another page which will display the person's info?

Usually what you do is link to something like a generic info page and pass it a persons name(or id) in the QueryString something like
a href="info_page.php?name=John+Smith" (if you are passing a name make sure to urlencode it to get rid of spaces.

As a rule
(and you may be doing this but just not mentioning it) when you create a table like this you should have one unique/auto_increment row that will create unique ID's for each user since theoretically a name could be used more than once. This also makes querying easier since you don't have to worry about spaces, caps etc. So you could pass the unique ID instead.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 08-20-2002).]

well you would usually have that name as link inside a form that would send that name in either a POST or a GET method to either another php page or the same one depending on how you want it to react.

So then your php would check $_POST["name"] or $_GET["name"] for the name that was sent as the value of name and retrieve the corresponding results from the DB for that name.

If you were not aware of $_POST and $_GET, they are superglobals put in after php version 4.1.0.
All required reading is at php.net somewhere.


edit: bit beat me by a minute! must.type.faster.

[This message has been edited by genis (edited 08-20-2002).]

Thank you very much I think that's exactly what I was looking for...