php and databases. Need help

[ricerocket]

Hi, if I wanted to get a username out of a database but I only have the email how would I create a query that gets the username using the email? And then how do I turn that into a variable with I can use to display the email wherever I print the variable...?

[Guest]

Assuming the database has fields called "username" and "emailaddress":

 

 SELECT username FROM UsersTable WHERE emailaddress='[email protected]' 

[ricerocket]

thanks, right now I have this:

 

$username=$_SESSION['pwngame'];
$getuser="SELECT * from eatyou_login where eatname='$username'";
$getuser2=mysql_query($getuser) or die("Could not get user");
$getuser3=mysql_fetch_array($getuser2);

 

 

but how would I turn that into a variable

[Guest]

Now, here's the thing, from your last post, I have a slight suspicion that you didn't write that script yourself, nor do you really understand what it does fully (sorry I don't mean to be offensive, if I come off that way).

 

If that's the case, the advice I'm about to give you might not make much sense, and explaining it bit by bit would be impossible; you'd have to take the time to learn the basics of PHP.

 

If I'm completely wrong, sorry about that. And here goes:

 

// Assuming you'll get the email address from a form
$email= $_POST['email'];

// Assuming there's a field in eatyou_login called "eatemail"
$getuser="SELECT * from eatyou_login where eatemail='$email'";
$getuser2=mysql_query($getuser) or die("Could not get user");
$getuser3=mysql_fetch_array($getuser2);

// $getuser3['username'] contains the username with the email address inside $email,
// if one was found.

[ricerocket]

Yea your right, I got that little snippet off of a previous script I had someone do for me. Your code works and I understand it, but I need to get the email from the database using the username. The username is stored in the session/cookie which I've turned into the variable $username. with the username I need to be able to select the email address from the user table in the database. How would I do that?

[Guest]

Oh, you want to get the emailaddress using the username, I thought it was the other way around. Oh, then that should be pretty easy:

 

// Your original code
$username=$_SESSION['pwngame'];
$getuser="SELECT * from eatyou_login where eatname='$username'";
$getuser2=mysql_query($getuser) or die("Could not get user");

//replaced with mysql_fetch_assoc
$getuser3=mysql_fetch_assoc($getuser2);

 

Now, assuming the field is called eatemail, it should be available via:

 

$getuser3['eatemail']

[ricerocket]

wow thanks a million! I've been trying different things trying to get this to work for a long time. It works perfect just how I wanted it.