please can anyone help !!! please please !!

[andrew_biggart]

hey everyone and thanks to anyone that can help me in advance!

 

At the moment i am designing an ebay type site for part of my coursework at uni. I am having trouble with two main things, the first thing being when ever my users log in i want to find out their user_id from the username entered and then after that when it goes to the myebay section bring up the relevent information relating to that user_id. I cant seem to get my head around it at all haha! im using a mysql database with useanme, password user_id fields etc! Any advice would be so much appreciated as has to be handed in on thur aghhhhhhh .

 

The second thing i would like help with if possible is when ever i add a product i can do this no problem, but the products i added directly into the database myself i have made the product name links to each individual product pages. Is there any way i can get php to convert the product name the user enters and make it a link. And then once this is done i would also to like it to create a unique page displaying its info on a larger scale like ebay. I have made the product page template so im wondering is there anyway to get php coding to create a new page for each product added usuing this template and then linking it to the product name (which it makes it a link) which is stored in the mysql database.

 

Im probably out of my depth i know but i am trying to fiqure it out so any help would be much appreciated.

 

sorry for the essay

 

tahnks again in advance for any help anyone can offer  ;D

[nloding]

http://www.evolt.org/PHP-Login-System-with-Admin-Features

 

Google: "php sessions", "php security", "php tutorial shopping cart" -- those should bring up relevant data.  Then you just have to adapt the idea of an 'admin' panel to a 'My eBay' copy.

[andrew_biggart]

il try that thanks dude