Question

I am inserting some info into a database table with php and mysql. I am trying to diplay the same information inserted into the table in the next page.

I know that if I send the ID it won’t work becuase the row hasn’t been created yet, it will display an empty page. Is there a way around this? I need the information to come from the table.

Answer 1

Edit: If the row hasn’t been created yet, it can’t be returned by the DB. Therefore, you are trying to access a given page in 2 different ways.

You can do something like the following:

$object = null;
if (isset($_REQUEST['id'])) {
    //call the DB to access the record data and put it 
    //into the $object that's representing that table.
}
else if (isset($_SESSION['data to display'])) {
    //retrieve that data and set the values on $object
    //then...
    unset($_SESSION['data to display']);
}
else {
    // bad input data. either call die() with an error message, 
    //or redirect to an error page, or do whatever else you might 
    //want to do.
}

From here on, everything should be common functionality for building the actual page.