Question

i want to fetch a field from database eg. “name” and then use it as a link to display further info about that name from the database itself
i used –

while($re=mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {

echo"<a href=\"test.php?id=1\">{$re["name"]}'</a>'";

    }

but i want that each ‘name’ entry when fetched from database be assigned different id like-
adam id=1
chris id=2
so that in the next page i can GET that id and display contents accordingly.
please help.

Answer 1

Editing your current example to keep a count like this:

$id = 0;

while($re=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
     $id++;
     echo"<a href=\"test.php?id={$id}\">{$re["name"]}'</a>'";
}