[SOLVED] user specific profile id in url

[contra10]

hi I 'm not too sure how to put the user id# that I assigned each user into the url...if it is possible, or how can I assign a url for the user in my community website?

 

right now i'm using a session id... but its only till i can get a thorough understanding

 

session_start();

$session_id = session_id();

header('Location: http://localhost/main/?sess_id='. $session_id);

 

PLEASE HELP

[amclean]

i *think* what you're looking for is $_GET.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_get.asp

 

[revraz]

Why would you need to put it in the URL if you are using sessions?

 

Set the ID in a session variable and use that instead, much safer.

[contra10]

each user that I have has a specific user id number so are you saying let the user id = the session variable, and that would create a user specific profile page?

[contra10]

also i used $_GET before but it didn't work plus its probably too revealing i just want the profile pages to have an id so that i can perform searches that link to the user specific profile

[timmah1]

When the user logs in, set the session id

loginsql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$user' AND password = '$password'";
	$loginres = mysql_query($loginsql);
	$numrows = mysql_num_rows($loginres);

	if($numrows == 1){				
			$loginrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($loginres);


				session_register("SESS_LOGGEDIN");
				session_register("SESS_USERID");

				$_SESSION['SESS_LOGGEDIN'] = 1;
				$_SESSION['SESS_USERID'] = $loginrow['user_ID'];
}

 

Then on the page you need to view that particular users profile, select their information from their session_id

 

session_start();
$session_id = $_SESSION['SESS_USERID'];

$sql = "select user_id where user_id = '$session_id';

[contra10]

I placed this code on my main page index.php

 

$loginsql = "SELECT id FROM registration WHERE username = '$username'";

 

$loginres = mysql_query($loginsql);

$numrows = mysql_num_rows($loginres);

 

if($numrows == 1){

$loginrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($loginres);

 

 

session_register("SESS_LOGGEDIN");

session_register("SESS_USERID");

 

$_SESSION['SESS_LOGGEDIN'] = 1;

$_SESSION['SESS_USERID'] = $loginrow['user_ID'];

}

 

and then i placed the second halk of th code on the main page which is where the profil is...still it doesn't show anything in the URL.

 

I'm really confused, by the way thanks for the quick replies.

 

WEBSITE LOGIN PAGE goes to MAIN PAGE and from there to PROFILE PAGE

 

is there an easier way where i can jus retrieve the id from mysql and put it in the url, If i do use $_GET when doing a search of all the users, cause eventually i want to be able to do a search is there a way i can make the url specific to the actual user?