Question

I have a search engine and im trying to open every result in a new window and am not sure what would be the best way to do it. on my search result page “search.php” I am using

$go = "go.php?url=";
print "<a href='".$go."".($row['id'])."' title='".($row['title'])."' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>".html_entity_decode($row['title'])."</a>";

which would take you to a page like http://website.com/go.php?url=37290

37290 would be the row id and now I have to query it so I can get all the rest of the info and I am having trouble. I know this is really easy but any help would be much appreciated.

on go.php I am using this right now just to show that im grabbing the id from url=37290

<?php print $_GET['url']?>

which obviously prints out 37290 but now I need to query that id in the db and fetch the extra db info.

I need to fetch link_id, title, and url

What would be a good way to do this?
Thanks.

EDIT:
i would need a query like

select link_id, title, url from search1_links

I hope that shows my db structure better. The db is name is data1

I assuming I need something like

if ($_GET['url']){

sql query stuff here.
}

EDIT:

My main problem is I cannot figure out how to make a query with $_GET[‘url’]
url is the id
I can do the sql I just need to know how to make a query with the id $_GET[‘url’] gives me.

Answer 1

Based on your comments, I would do something like:

$id = isset($_GET['url']) ? ((int) $_GET['url']) : NULL;
if (!empty($id))
{
  $sql = "SELECT title FROM some_table WHERE link_id = $id";
  // etc.
}
else
{
  // some error message and exit
}

Although I really would use PDO, but that´s another story.