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icarus
icarus

Reputation: 166

passing a link title to the next page

I'm trying to make automatically generated pages for users based on the username. Basically I'm creating a table in HTML which displays all the users currently registered. The names are hyperlinks which redirect to a page in which I will post a welcome message.

The problem is that I don't know how to pass the name of the user I click on to the next page. 

    <table border='1'>
    <tr>
    <th>Username</th>
    <th>Email</th>
    </tr>

    <?php
    while($currentRow = mysql_fetch_array($query))
    {

        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<td><a href='/templates/profile.php?name='". $currentRow['name']  .">" . $currentRow['name'] . "</a></td>";
        echo "<td>" . $currentRow['email'] . "</td>";
        echo "</tr>";
    }

    ?>

As you can see, I tried using get, but it won't work, I think it's because it doesn't know what I'm clicking on. The point is that I want the page with the welcome message say something like "welcome, $username". Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 109

Answers (5)

Anand Jaju
Anand Jaju

Reputation: 458

echo "<td><a href='/templates/profile.php?name=". $currentRow['name']  ."'>" . $currentRow['name'] . "</a></td>";

close the single code after name value you are sending in a tag.. thats it.

Upvotes: 0

Elmer
Elmer

Reputation: 259

You are closing the string with single quotes "'" that is why $_GET does not work. Replace profile.php?name='" with profile.php?name=" and also remove the single quote on the other end.

Upvotes: 3

Devang Rathod
Devang Rathod

Reputation: 6736

In your profile.php

echo $_GET['name'];

Upvotes: 0

MD SHAHIDUL ISLAM
MD SHAHIDUL ISLAM

Reputation: 14523

You have need remove single quote after ?name= and add it to before character >

Use 

echo "<td><a href='/templates/profile.php?name=". $currentRow['name']  ."'>" .
$currentRow['name'] . "</a></td>";

Instead of 

echo "<td><a href='/templates/profile.php?name='". $currentRow['name']  .">" .
$currentRow['name'] . "</a></td>";

Upvotes: 0

nickle
nickle

Reputation: 5176

try this in profile.php

Welcome <?php echo $_GET['name'];?>

Upvotes: 0

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