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Re: take two - fetch items from a row. [message #181297 is a reply to message #181295]

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:32

Richard Yates
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On Fri, 3 May 2013 19:02:58 -0400, richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com>
wrote:

> This code may reside on a page in a line.
> < a href="http:www.code.com/gettable.php?number=1">
>
>
> Where I show id=$number, is that the way I want to show it or is there a
> beter way?
> I want to retrieve the row corresponding to the id number given in the
> link.
>
> <?php
>
>
> $number=$_GET["number"];
> if (empty($number)) {$number=1;}
> $number=(int)$number;
>
> // connections code left out intentionally //
>
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT id,email FROM people WHERE id = $number");
> if (!$result) {
> echo 'Could not run query: ' . mysql_error();
> exit;
> }
> $row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
>
> echo $row[0]; // 42
> echo $row[1]; // the email value
> ?>

Your code does work. There are details about it that could be improved
and others made suggestions about in response to your first post. I
notice that in this post your id field in the database is assumed to
be a number where the last time it seemed to be a string. Do yuou know
which it is?

Have you learned about validating and sanitizing user input yet?

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		take two - fetch items from a row. By: richard on Fri, 03 May 2013 23:02
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: richard on Fri, 03 May 2013 23:13
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: Denis McMahon on Sat, 04 May 2013 00:59
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: Richard Yates on Fri, 03 May 2013 23:32
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: richard on Fri, 03 May 2013 23:54
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: Richard Yates on Sat, 04 May 2013 02:20
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Sat, 04 May 2013 03:37
		Re: take two - fetch items from a row. By: SwissCheese on Sat, 04 May 2013 11:00

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