Question

i have this quick issue please.

I have this code here which permits me to extract a user name and a photo, and when the name is clicked it takes me to this hostess.php file, well, i need to pass the id variable to the hostess.php and save it, in order to get information only for that id..

Here is the code:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { 
echo "<div id='photo'>"; 
echo "<div id='picture'>"; 
 echo "<td> <img src=foto/photo1/".$row['photo'] . "></td>";
 echo "</div>"; 
 echo "<div id='text'>"; 
 echo '<td><a href="hostess.php">'. $row['first_name_en']."&nbsp;". $row['family_name_en']."</a></td>";
echo "</div>"; 
echo "</div>"; 
}

How can i just get the id and then how can i save it to the $id variable
Thanks

The table structure is like this:
The table name is called hostess and the field i need to retrieve from hostess is the [id]

Answer 1

Change the line:

echo '<td><a href="hostess.php">'. $row['first_name_en'] . 
     "&nbsp;". $row['family_name_en']."</a></td>";

to this:

echo '<td><a href="hostess.php?id={$row[id]}">'. $row['first_name_en'] . 
     "&nbsp;". $row['family_name_en']."</a></td>";

and in hostess.php, use this to extract the value:

$id = $_GET['id'];

EDIT

Here is another method to pass variable as POST. Again, change the aforementioned line to:

echo '<td><form method="POST" action="hostess.php">' . "<input type='hidden' 
     name='id' value='{$row[id]}' />" . "<input type='submit' value='" . 
     $row['first_name_en'] . "&nbsp;" . $row['family_name_en'] . 
     " /></form></td>";

You can use CSS to style that button as simple text too. And the value can be retrieved in hostess.php as follows:

$id = $_POST['id'];