Need some help on php script

[Camron]

Hello everyone. I am currently in progress in making a "myspace" type script. The site is www.profiledash.com. The user sign's up, gets a profile.

This is the problem I am having.
As I am not "super" at php yet, what I have made only allows the memeber to see his own profile. I want it to show /viewprofile.php?id=thereusername so it will show there profile. Otherwise no one could see it. Then I would use mod_rewrite to make /them/. Unfortunately without viewprofile.php script, I am unable to go any further with this script.

If someone would be willing to help me, I know it couldn't be to hard just to make this for me. I would give you access to the site so that you would be able to look at the functions and vars to create the viewprofile.

Please contact me via msn> [email protected]. We can chat further in there. I will now be in Namepros live chat to see if someone can help me there

Thanks again guys,
Camron

 

[Xyzer]

i think you need something like:

$_GET

Hope that helps, im at the same level of php as you then.

 

[crunch]

<?
$profile=$_GET['id'];

/*
 insert mysql connect statement to connect to database
	then your mysql query would look something like:
*/
$result = mysql_query("select * from users where profile_id='".$profile."'");
?>

 

[liam_d]

<?
$profile=$_GET['id'];

/*
 insert mysql connect statement to connect to database
	then your mysql query would look something like:
*/
$result = mysql_query("select * from users where profile_id='".$profile."'");
?>

That is on the lines of what you need.

If you wish to then show information for the user do something like

This below means grab the information from $result and put it into $user_info

$user_info = mysql_fetch_array($result);

You may then do things like $user_info['name'] depending on what you have in your database.

A note: when you wish to get something from the url use $_GET, this will get something from the url that you specify for example an url like viewprofile.php?id=72 it would be $_GET['id']. Also you should use numbers not names for an id.

Need anything else don't be afraid to ask