SQL command knowhow issue

[JJ_ceo]

Ok so I have been looking for how to do this all day(Very long time) and I can't find it anywhere.

 

What I am trying to do is power my website with what I call URL variables the things that YouTube uses E.G. Page.php?video=1 but when it comes to selecting data from my database I have an issue. I have a table for ID and some others I will call them EX1 to EX5, what I am trying to do is the URL "?" thing says a number and that number is turned into a variable(don't know how) but that variable indicates the ID, but I don't want to put the ID on the page, I want the ID to tell my PHP code where in the tables the EX1 - EX5 are, so they can become a variable for later use on the page.

 

Sum up. PHP takes the URL?name=1 turns into variable(1) - variable indicates where in the columns to look

 

LOOKS UNDER ID finds 1 - now it needs to make the EX1 - EX5 in the same column into variables.

 

ID EX1 EX2.....

1

 

 

 

I don't know how to do this can anyone help me?

[davej]

You generally have a page which receives a form and then uses $_GET to access the values. It may be a page that sends a form to itself. See...

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

[JJ_ceo]

You generally have a page which receives a form and then uses $_GET to access the values. It may be a page that sends a form to itself. See...

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

Thanks for the help, but now the $_GET command is not working too. This is what I have so far,

<?php

$con=mysqli_connect("host","username_table.access.name","Password","username_table.name");

// Check connection

if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {

echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();

}

//This Part HERE IS NOT WORKING!

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM games

WHERE id='$_GET["id"]'");

// / The part above is not working.

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))

$name = $row['name'];

$price = $row['price'];

$sdes = $row['short_des'];

$ldes = $row['long_des'];

$img = $row['img'];

$img1 = $row['eximg1'];

$img2 = $row['eximg2'];

$img3 = $row['eximg3'];

$img4 = $row['eximg4'];

$video = $row['video'];

?>

Edited April 28, 2014 by JJ_ceo

[JJ_ceo]

It's Working NOW!!

I was just looking and I forgot a curly bracket.