14 replies to this topic

[demonix]

ok... how can i have it so that my page users.php becomes users.php?44mv392 (or something like that) does that have to do with the user session or something?

[HaloprO]

Are you trying to make it so they can view a profile by doing something like
users.php?user=bob

[demonix]

basically... cant really think of how to say it other than that ^^

[HaloprO]

You are going to need to setup a user table inside of a database

<?php
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['user']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '$username' LIMIT 1";
$q = mysql_query($sql);
$n = mysql_num_rows($q);
if ($n) {
	$r = mysql_fetch_assoc($q);
	echo "The username is: $r[username]";
} else {
	die('Username not found.');
}
?>

Something like that, you should get the jist of it

Edited by HaloprO, 25 January 2006 - 03:01 PM.

[Av-]

This has been asked many times before, im sure if you search for it, it will come up with something usefull

http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php...&hl=php+include

[HaloprO]

Come on avalance be nice, he said he didn't know what to call it, so he wouldn't know what to search for, and he's not looking for a php include

[meadow]

I think you want something like this: http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/PHP_Co...1&ss=navigation Good luck!

[HaloprO]

Do you guys not see that he wants to know how to get users from a database?

[demonix]

no... i know how to get users from a database... thats easy

what im trying to do is sort of what the topic avalanche put... like the index.php?section=support... basically thats what im trying to do.

[Av-]

i win

[rc69]

Ok, settle down, this isn't a race to prove who is or is not right. Avalance, you were a bit of, but the same concept of what's in that link still applies.
But demonix, that stuff after and including the '?' in the url is known as a query string. In php, you get stuff out of that string through the $_GET var.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.vari...d.variables.get <-- more info.

[Av-]

i was just kidding, nothing serious

[demonix]

ok... so i now have the hang of individual query strings... but what about multiple ones? eg index.php?act=test&id=1

[Blitz]

They're accessed the same way. $_GET['act'] would have the value 'test' and $_GET['id'] would have the value 1.

[Nike]

Oh, you want PHP Navigation. http://www.techtuts....=tutorial&id=52