Question

I’m fairly new to PHP and MySQL (experienced with other languages). Basically I want to load data from a row relative to its id stated in the URL. Example, load the 3rd row when “index.php?id=3”

Heres what I’ve managed to do so far: http://pastie.org/1436865

I pretty sure this question has been asked a million times over, but I don’t know what term to search far and have not been able to find anything so far :S

Thanks guys

Answer 1

The simplest way is

$id = (int) $_GET['id'];;
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE id=".$id);
while($res = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
    echo $res->columnname;
}

Of course, you should check input parameters, etc. This is only approach.