Passing a parm in PHP

[USADarts]

Need help with some PHP coding....
A list of people names come up on a web page (ex:

http://www.example.com/names.php).

The list is created using MySQL and PHP. Links are attached to this list. Each name/link has a seperate username. My link for each one looks as follows:

http://www.example.com/selected.php?parm=username

Is this correct? Would this carry the username field from names.php to selected.php?

What I need to do is carry the username to the

http://www.example.com/selected.php

page for further use. This page then scans through another MySQL database and selects information based on the username.

Thanks,
David

 

[KnotGoblin]

I'm assume you've built the links something like this:

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]www.example.com/selected.php?name=JohnDoes">JohnDoe</a>[/URL]
<br />
<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]www.example.com/selected.php?name=BobSmith">BobSmith</a>[/URL]

then in selected.php you would retreive the username like this:

$username=$_GET['name'];

-Jer

 

[USADarts]

Thanks,
However, am i able to use a field instead of a name?


Example:
<a href="www.example.com/selected.php?selected=$row['username']"</a>

I only have one link that loops throught the whole database. This database is added to regularly.

Thank again,
David

 

[KnotGoblin]

be more specific.

when you said field. do you mean text box or a column in a table or...?

Provide a sample of your code.

-Jer

 

[jstreich]

Yes, you can... I think. If you mean something like this:

for($i = 0; $i < array_count_values(array); $i++)
{
   print("<a href=\"[URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com/selected.php?name="[/URL] . $array[$i] . "\">" . $array[$i] . "</a><br/>");
}

or

foreach($array as $name)
{
  print("<a href=\"[URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com/selected.php?name="[/URL] . $name . "\">" . $name . "</a><br/>");
}

And then on the selected page:

$name = $_GET['name'];
if($name == null || $name == "")
{
  print("Something went wrong.  All your bases are belong to us!");
}
else
{
  //cool stuff
}

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