Question

I have a problem here I can’t solve. I have a database of houses with country, location, price etc entities. I print only the countries in a table using:
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($select))
where $select is a query that selects specific data from the db. I want to display the full information of the selected db data on a different page i have created. The problem is that i don’t know how to take the price of the data the user selected. When i get the price of the $_SESSION['counter'], its the number of the last entity of the db. . I don’t want to use javascript etc. Here’s the code of the page:

<?php
require_once 'php/core.php';    // opens the database
require_once 'php/openDB.php';  // starts the new session


$select = mysql_query("SELECT ID, Country, City FROM Houses");
$counter = 1;

echo "<form action='house_profile.php' method='get'> 
    <table width='400'>
    <tr>
    <td>No.</td>
    <td>Country</td>
    <td>City</td>";
    echo "<tr>";

while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($select))
{
    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td>" . $counter . "</td>";
    echo "<td>" . $data['Country'] . "</td>";
//  echo "<td>" . "<a href='house_profile.php' type='submit' value='$counter'>" . $data['City'] . "</a>" . "</td>";
    echo "<td>" . $data['City'] . "</td>";
    echo "<td><input type='submit' value='info' name='" . $counter . "'></td>";
    echo "</tr>";
    $_SESSION['counter'] = $counter;
    $counter++;
}
echo "</table>
    </form>";
    ?>`

Answer 1

Clarification:
You can pass any value to house_profile.php by adding a ? to start the querystring, then the name of the variable and the value. If you want to pass the id to house_profile then the link should look like this.

    "<a href='house_profile.php?ID=" . $data['ID'] . "'>"

then in house_profile.php update your query like this

    $select = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Houses where ID = " . $_GET['ID']);

Now only the entity they clicked will be available.

FYI $counter is just the count, it’s not necessarily the ID of the entity. e.g. if you delete ID 1 your records will start from ID 2 but counter will always start with 1. So to reference your entities correctly use the database ID.