Question

I have a members site which requires login where members create web pages with specific user-defined variables to enter data which will be shown for public access to these web pages, each of which displays information on a certain product.

There are 7 common web page templates which all members choose from to display custom variables related to them, their company, and a specific product (one of seven). They enter their custom information in to a form, which then places these values in the proper places on the web page templates to be viewed by prospects later

<input name='first_name' value='first_name'>
<input name='last_name' value='last_name'>
<input name='company_name' value='company_name'>
<input name='phone_number' value='phone_number'>
<input name='product_id' value='product_id'>
<input name='product_size' value='product_size'>
<input name='product_color' value='product_color'>
<input name='product_price' value='product_price'>

I need to be able to access the values of these variables pertaining to the specific user and specific product offered by user when a webpage is accessed with the user_id in the URL, ie something like http://domain.com/page_template_1/user_id/product_id.

Right now, only the user has access to these values when he is logged in. I need these values to be accessible to anyone accessing a specific url where user’s custom values his show product information.

Answer 1

For some reason, I couldn’t get anything to work for me except the following. It could have been the way the rest of the code on my page is constructed. I don’t know. But here is what I did which works. Kind of a pain to have to use $row->variable_name instead of $variable_name. But it works.

$db_connection = new mysqli("", "", "");
if ($db_connection->connect_errno) {
   echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $mysqli->connect_errno . ") " .       $mysqli->connect_error;
}

$id = $_GET['user_id'];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE id = '$id' LIMIT 1") or die(mysql_error()); 
$row = mysql_fetch_object($query);

echo " // HTML GOES HERE

  $row->first_name
  $row->last_name
  $row->company_name

 ";