Question

I’ve been getting better at PHP – but I have NO idea what I’m doing when it comes to MySQL.

I have a code

<a href="http://www.example.com/test.php?for=abcde&affi=12345&reff=foo"><IMG></a>

I need to grab the “for”, “affi” and “reff” and input them into a database

//Start the DB Call
    $mysqli = mysqli_init();

//Log in to the DB
    if (!$mysqli) {
        die('mysqli_init failed');
    }

    if (!$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND, 'SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0')) {
        die('Setting MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND failed');
    }

    if (!$mysqli->options(MYSQLI_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 5)) {
        die('Setting MYSQLI_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT failed');
    }

    if (!$mysqli->real_connect('localhost', 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD', 'DATABASE')) {
die('Connect Error (' . mysqli_connect_errno() . ') '
        . mysqli_connect_error());
}

That’s what I’m using to create a connection. It works. I’ve also got a table created, call it “table”, with rows for “for”, “affi”, and “reff”.

So my question is… someone gets directed to http://www.example.com/test.php?for=abcde&affi=12345&reff=foo

Now that I’ve got a DB connection open – how do I SEND that data to the DB before redirecting them to their destination site? They click – pass across this page – get redirected to destination.

BONUS KARMA – I also need a separate PHP file that I can create that PULLS from that data base. If you could point me at some instructions or show me a simple “how to pull this rows values from this table” I would be greatly appreciative 🙂

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you’ll want to use $_GET to get the URL parameters.

Then you want to run an insert query on the db with the values you got, which should be something like:

INSERT INTO table VALUES(x, y, z)

Then you need to change the page using a location header.

For the bonus question you just need the code you have now with a select query like:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE 1;

and then fetch the query results.

If this does not answer your questions please provide some clarifications.