Question

This may be a newbie question, But let’s say I have a database table w/ 10 fields. However, on the first screen I want a small 4-5 field table displaying corresponding data. But the first field, let’s call it ID, I want to be linkable to a full table that will display complete details about that, all 10 db fields. What would the coding be…I have a friend that usually helps, but apparently this is too easy…he simply laughed at my question.

Please help…thanks
Aaron

Answer 1

Is it something like this you’re looking for?

First page:

<?php
// Create a connection above
$data = mysql_query('SELECT id, field2, field3, field4 FROM table') or die(mysql_error());
echo '<table>';
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data))
{
  echo '<tr><td><a href="info.php?id=' . $row['id'] . '">' . $row['id'] . '</td><td>'. $row['field1'] . '</td><td>'. $row['field2'] . '</td><td>'. $row['field3'] . '</td><td>'. $row['field4'] . '</td></tr>';
}
echo '</table>';
?>

I am not sure what you want on the second page but if you want to display information about one specific row, you can do it in this way:

<?php
// Create a connection above
$data = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = "' . mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']) . '"') or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data);    
echo '<table>';
echo '<tr><td>Id:</td><td>' . $row['id'] . '</td></tr>';
echo '<tr><td>Field 1:</td><td>' . $row['field1'] . '</td></tr>';
// And so on...
?>