[SOLVED] unique reference to a page

[ghqwerty]

ok so i know how pagination works but how can i program a page e.g a users profile so that the url would say something like

 

blahblahblah/stats.php/user=blah

 

so that they could just reference there page

 

any help greatly appreciated

[F1Fan]

blahblahblah/stats.php?user=blah

 

Then var $_REQUEST['user'] = "blah"

[ghqwerty]

huh

[F1Fan]

OK, let's say you have stats.php and you want to pass a variable into it:

 

Let's say you direct a user to blahblahblah/stats.php?user=blah because their username is "blah."

 

stats.php

<?php
if (!isset($_REQUEST['user'])) die("No user!");
$username = $_REQUEST['user'];

echo "User name is $username!";
?>

 

Then, going to blahblahblah/stats.php?user=blah would display:

User name is blah!

 

That help?

[ghqwerty]

so if the users name was matty where would i assign this ???

 

thanks for the other help

[F1Fan]

What do you mean "where would I assign this?" You would give them a link, like:

 

<a href="blahblahblah/stats.php?user=<?php echo $username; ?>">View your stats page!</a>

 

Is that what you mean?

[ghqwerty]

ok i kinda get it

 

once ive finished refurbishing my stats page ill try it out .. then ill come back if i have a problem

 

thanks for the help

[ghqwerty]

ok just tried it a bit

 

im going to do it with user id's instead of name for less errors

 

im getting confused

 

please go through it again in REALY dumb talk lol

as in where to put it

 

also

where you have $_REQUEST['user']

 

what should the user bit be replaced with ??

[F1Fan]

OK, if you have a page's URL, let's say http://example.com/somepage.php, you can pass variables into it by listing them after a ? and separating them with a &. So, let's say you want to pass one variable in called "somevar1" and you want it to equal "blah."

 

After the http://example.com/somepage.php just add a ? and somevar1=blah, and you get http://example.com/somepage.php?somevar1=blah. If you wanted to pass the same "somevar1" and a new one, maybe "anothervar1" and make it equal "anotherblah," you would do this: http://example.com/somepage.php?somevar1=blah&anothervar1=anotherblah.

 

Each variable passed in after the ? will be added to the $_REQUEST array. So, $_REQUEST['somevar1'] will give you a value of "blah" and $_REQUEST['anothervar1'] will equal "anotherblah."

 

To test this, create a page on your site called "test.php" and put ONLY this inside it:

<?php
print_r($_REQUEST);
?>

 

Now, navigate to that page and add variables to the URL string and you should see the results.

 

Try something like: http://<yoursite>.com/test.php?somevar1=blah&anothervar1=anotherblah

[ghqwerty]

Array ( [user] => hello

[phpSESSID] => 0d015c1ac8d00d8144c4c372dfc65c10 )

thats what i get

so how would i factor that into a stats page

would i have to do the query based on the variable up top??

how would i do that

man i feel like ive gone 10 spaces backwards in php

i used to grasp it well easily and now i feel like im just starting again

what i want to do is do
localhost/stats.php?uid=$usersid

so would i get that $userid from the session i create when i log in ??

also where i have the query to get the stats would i have to do

$who = "select * from members where id = ' " . $_request['uid'] . " ' ";

 

???i think im getting it

[F1Fan]

Not sure what you're asking for. If you have the userid in a session variable, why do you need to pass it into another page?!?

 

To retrieve your uid variable that you've passed with localhost/stats.php?uid=$usersid, you'll need to reference the $_REQUEST['uid'] variable.

[ghqwerty]

ok so i want it so when the user clicks on stats they see their own stats but if they click on someone elses name in the users list then they get taken to their profile with their stats and their custom profile

[Flames]

i dont think you need a code to check for that.

i think your looking for a code to check if its your username so you can edit it and stuff if it is your page?

 

all you need is something similar to.

<?php
$queryposts = "SELECT posts FROM table WHERE id = '$_REQUEST['uid']"
$posts = mysql_query($queryposts);
echo "Posts: " . $posts;

?>

[F1Fan]

OK, so for each of your links, let's say your code is this:

 

<?php
$query = "SELECT username, uid FROM users...";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 echo "<a href='users.php?uid={$row['uid']}'>{$row['username']}</a><br>";
}
?>

 

Then, users.php:

<?php
$uid = $_REQUEST['uid'];
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE uid = '$uid'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
print_r($row);
?>

[ghqwerty]

haha i did it on my own

 

kinda understand it

 

once i get used to it ill be a pro at it

 

thanks