Question

I am a newbie, a real newbie when it’s up to php…

I am building a form which gets information from the database and outputs the information for that specific selection, i have this code here:

$SQL ="SELECT hostess_id FROM hostess WHERE first_name_en="'.addslashes($_GET["titles"]).'""; 
?>

But it gives me an error, i mean it’s not correct.
How am i supposed to echo the results of this query?

Thanks

Answer 1

instead of :

"'.addslashes($_GET["titles"]).'"

do:

'".addslashes($_GET["titles"])."'

result:

$SQL ="SELECT hostess_id FROM hostess WHERE first_name_en='".addslashes($_GET["titles"])."'"; 

$query = mysql_query($SQL) or die(mysql_error());
while($res = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
   echo $res["hostess_id"];
}

NB :

stop writing new code with the ancient mysql_* functions. They are no longer maintained and community has begun the deprecation process . Instead you should learn about prepared statements and use either PDO or MySQLi. If you cannot decide, this article will help to choose. If you care to learn, here is a quite good PDO-related tutorial