Simple PHP translation

Anon

I have one line of code I need help translating from ASP. I'm trying to transfer a site over quickly:

This is the ASP

< % Response.Write Request.QueryString("name") % >

Thanks in advance- Marcus

Anon

I sorta know ASP. I dropped out of that class cause it wasn't practical. See if this works.
<?php
print("$name");
?>

that will print out the variable name. If thats what you want to do then there it is. If not and you are pulling out of a mysql db then it would look like this.

<?php
$db = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
mysql_select_db("dbname", $db);
$sql = "select * from tablename";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
printf("Name Entered: %s\n",$row["name"]);
}
?>

That will pull all of the values in the "name" field. If you want to just specify one certian name then look up the "Select Statement" in Mysql.com.
Hope I was some help! Thanks!
Chad R. Smith

rrijnders

By default, PHP loads url encoded variables into variables. You can just reference them like:

print($name);

similar to asp's allowing you to reference the var as:

Response.Write Request("name")

If you really want to make sure if the variable is from the query string as opposed to a form field:

print($HTTP_GET_VARS["name"]);

HTH
-- Rich

Anon

Thats what I said. Are you mocking me? 🙂 Just joking with ya Richard.
Chad

Anon

Thanks for the help. It worked. Nice.