Echo Help Please...

[roldahayes]

Hi,

 

I know this should be very basic stuff but I'm really stuck with it!

 

I'm trying to include a field onto a page (BusinessName)

 

<?php echo "$BusinessName"; ?>

 

This is not working - Do I have to include something else in the page to let it know about the field. 

A variable?

 

 

[premiso]

When you say field, do you mean an HTML form field?

Has $BusinessName been defined else where?

 

If you have more code please show us so we can better help you as well, just remember to place code inside of

tags.

[roldahayes]

Its a field in the database.

 

i want the "businessname" to appear at the top of that business page.

 

the pages are defined by the username i.e.

 

[email protected]

 

So somehow I need it to pull the "businessname" from the database in relation to the user ID...

 

i hope that makes sense!

 

 

[premiso]

Do you even have a database setup? If so which one, MySQL ?

 

This is a rough example that you will need to cater to your database:

 

<?php
$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or trigger_error("Could not connect: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("yourdatabasename") or trigger_error("Unable to select DB: " . mysql_error());

if (isset($_GET['user'])) {
    $user = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['user']); // mysql_real_escape_string will prevent against sql injection
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT BusinessName FROM table_name WHERE userID = '$user'") or trigger_error("Query Failed: " . mysql_error());
    
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
           echo $row['BusniessName'] . "<br />";
    }    
}else {
    echo "No user supplied.";
}
?>

 

If any of that is confusing I would go find a tutorial on PHP / MySQL.

[roldahayes]

That all makes sense but maybe I'm over confusing things with my explanation

 

You know how a website will have:

 

Welcome "name of user is inserted here"  ?

 

thats what I want to but the field is the business name.

 

If it helps, the table is called "clients" ?

 

The page code is:

 

 <?php
//Set unread to 0


$sql = "DELETE FROM admin_unread WHERE user_id = '$user_id'";

if (!mysql_query($sql,$conn))
{
die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
}
//Save Comment
if(isset($_POST['comment']))
{
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2, MYSQL_ASSOC);
$email = $row2['email'];

$comment = mysql_escape_string($_POST['comment']);
$comment = strip_tags($comment);
$comment = stripslashes($comment);
$commentSQL = "INSERT INTO notes (text, isadmin, user_id) VALUES ('$comment', '1', '$user_id')";
$commentSQL2 = "UPDATE clients SET unread = 1 WHERE id = '$user_id'";
mysql_query($commentSQL,$conn) or die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_query($commentSQL2,$conn) or die('Error: ' . mysql_error());

//Send Notification Email
//$emailSubject = "You Have Received a Message About Your Project";
//$message = "Here is the message from the admin:\n\n".$comment;
//mail($email, $emailSubject, $message, "From: ".$fromEmail);		
echo "<p class=\"good\">Your note has been added.</p>";
}
?>




<h1><?php echo $BusinessName;?></h1>
<h1><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)"><img src="../../images/back.png" width="50" height="40" border="0" /></a></h1>
<div id="fileTable" class="margin">

<?php

//List Notes
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
$text = stripcslashes($row['text']);
if(!$row['isadmin'] == 1)
{
	echo "<div class=\"fileRow\">".$text."</div>";
}
else
{
	echo "<div class=\"fileRow admin\">".$text."</div>";
}
}

//If new, then list
if(isset($_POST['comment']))
{
echo "<div class=\"fileRow admin\">".stripslashes($comment)."</div>";
}
?>
</div>
<div class="right-box">
<h2>Add new note </h2>
<form method="post">
  <textarea id="comment" name="comment" class="margin"></textarea>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Add Note" class="submit" />
</form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//Add validation for inputs
var comment = new LiveValidation('comment');
comment.add( Validate.Presence );
</script>

[raytri]

As the previous poster commented, you're trying to show $BusinessName when you haven't defined it yet.

 

To show $BusinessName, you need to run the SQL query, fetch the query results as an array, and define $BusinessName as the contents of the appropriate database column -- BEFORE you try to echo $BusinessName.

 

So you need to do stuff in this order:

 

1. Define an SQL query ($sql).

2. Run the query:

$myQuery=mysql_query[$sql];

2. Fetch the array:

$myArray = mysql_fetch_array($myQuery);

3. Define $BusinessName:

$BusinessName=$myArray['BusinessName'];

4. Echo $BusinessName anywhere you like.

 

Going a step further: Once you have $BusinessName defined, you can use it on subsequent pages without a new database query by either using sessions and defining it as a session variable, or passing it as a variable in the URL (using $_GET) or in a form field (using $_POST).