Question

I’m trying to get data from a database if a link is clicked.

Basically i have a main.php that contains this:

$sql2="SELECT projectsid, projectname, description, 
    SUBSTRING(description,0,80) FROM projects";
$result2=mysql_query($sql2);    

while($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2)) {
    echo "<div id=\"links\">";
    echo "<ul>";
    echo "<li> <a href=\"fullproject.php\">" . $row2['projectname'];
    $_SESSION['projectname']= $row2['projectname'];
    echo "<em>" . $row2['description'] . "</em></a></li>";
    echo "</ul>";
    echo "</div>";
}

This displays a list of names and a brief description.

• Proj1
  • description
• Proj2
  • description

What i’d like to do is to display the full contents of a project if that one is clicked.

fullproject.php

<?php
session_start(); 
$projectname= $_SESSION['projectname'];

// Connect to server.
require ("connect.php");

$sql1="SELECT projectsid, projectname, programme, difficult, requirements,
    resources, description, contact, gsize, size 
    FROM projects WHERE projectname = '$projectname'";
$result1=mysql_query($sql1);    

while($row1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result1)) {
echo "Project Name: " . $row1['projectname']. "<br />";
echo "Programme : " . $row1['programme'] . "<br />";
echo "Difficult : " . $row1['difficult'] . "<br />";
echo "Requirements : " . $row1['requirements'] . "<br />";
echo "Resources : " . $row1['resources'] . "<br />";
echo "Description : " . $row1['description'] . "<br />";
echo "Contact : " . $row1['contact'] . "<br />";
echo "Group size : " . $row1['gsize'] . " " . $row1['size'] . "<br />";
echo "<br /> ";
}

Whenever I click any of the project list items, it only displays the last itemin the list.
I believe this is happening because when the while loop ends the session variable is set to the last one.
Can someone tell me how to fix this?
Thanks

Answer 1

Try using GET variable instead of session

in main.php use

    echo "<li> <a href='fullproject.php?projectname=$row2[projectname]'>";

in fullproject.php declare a variable and initialize it to the get variable

   $projectname= $_GET['projectname'];