get details from mysql

[christophe]

Hi there

I have a table in mysql database with fields  like this

username          password            custorsupp

alex                sdjjdjiaislei          C

bloggs              djdjjsaowe          s




How would i get the value of custorsupp field from the database using php


And also how would i redirect a user according to this value


Thanks
Alex

[chiprivers]

Hi Alex,

Have you done any PHP and MySQL integration?  If not, you should start with a simple tutorial like this one:

[url=http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/641]http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/641[/url]

I am assuming that you first want to verify a persons username and password, you can do this by querying the database for records where the username and password columns values match those entered by the user.  If you have this set up correctly and the person enteres valid details, this should return one record from the database.  You can then extract the value from the custorsupp column of this one record to use in proceeding.

[christophe]

hi thanks for your reply

yep ive verified the username and password

but i cant work out or find the code to get the value of custorsupp

and then redirect the user according to that value which by the way would either be c for customer or s for supplier

[chiprivers]

you will want something like this to get value of custorsup:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$value = $row['custorsupp'];

}

This will apply the value with c or s to the variable $value.  What the above is doing is actually looping thorugh all records returned and doing this for each record but as there should be only one record returned it should do it just the once.

[chiprivers]

To redirect to alternative page:

<?php

/**
* Place in a blank PHP page
*/

// Change to the URL you want to redirect to
$URL="http://www.example.com";

header ("Location: $URL");

?>

[fenway]

Remember that in general comparisons are case-insensitive, if you care.