Help in making a edit profile page

[farban]

Hey there I am making a edit profile page and this is what i have so far. I am making it so that the profile info appears with the editatble values in the form feilds which the user can then edit and change and then click on submit.

 

here is the code i have on editprofile.php

 

<?php
session_start();

if (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) {


	$url = absolute_url();
	header("Location: $url");

	exit();



}

include("includes/start.php");
require_once("includes/_connect.inc.php");

echo "<h1>Update Profile</h1><p>Update the profile</p>";

if (!isset($_POST['submitted'])) {

	$q = " SELECT 
   
   user.user_first_name,
   user.user_surname,
   user.user_age,
   user.user_sex,
   user.user_city,
   user.user_home_phone,
   user.user_mobile_phone,
   user.user_profession,
   user.user_specialist_area,
   user.user_email,
   user.user_username


FROM

user

WHERE user.user_id= '".$_SESSION['user_id']."'";


echo '<form action="editprofile.php" method="post">
<p>First name<input type="text" name="user_first_name" size="15" maxlength="15" value="'.$user_first_name.'"/>
</form>';
}
?>

 

how can i print out the firstname value into the firstname input feild of the form?