Editing User Account

[itworks]

i have a form for editing a user account but i want to text fields to have the current user settings so he can see what he wants to change, right now the script works (it updates the changes in the user account) but the user has to fill all the registration fields again, any thoughts in how i can do this?

[devinemke]

i assume the account settings are stored in a database? pull the data out and echo it into your HTML that generates the form (in the input value tags).

[Phily_Baby]

<input type="text" name="membernumber" value="12">

You want to echo something like that out where "12" is the variable read from the database.

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"varname\" value=\"$varvalue\">";

[itworks]

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"varname\" value=\"$varvalue\">";

i've tried that but it didn't work, any clue why?

[altexis]

i suppose you have put this <input> tag inside a <form></form> tag right?

also, try this:

echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"varname\" value=\"".htmlspecialchars($varvalue)."\">"; 

[itworks]

yes i have, if i didn't, the form wouldn't show.

the problem is in displaying a database value in the text field value.

[feldon23]

Is this a register_globals problem?

I mean where are you getting $varvalue from?

Can you echo $varvalue; ?

[itworks]

i have this in the script

<?php
include("BDMySQL.class.php");
?>
<b>ACCOUNT EDITING</b> 
<?php
if($status=="account") {
?>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="index.php?page=account&status=edit">
/* here goes the form
</form>
<?php
}
if($status=="verificar") {
?>
<br>
Editing Result <br><br>
<?php
include("ARUser.class.php");
	if($name!="") {
		if($address!="") {
			if($zip_cod1!="" && $zip_cod!="") {
				if($email != "") {
					if($password != "" && $rpassword!="") {
						if($password==$rpassword) {
							$user = new ARUser();
							if($user->editUser($email, $password, $name, $address, $zip_cod)) {
								echo "The account has been updated successfully!!!<br><br>";
							} else {
								echo "Problems with editing the account!!!<br>";
							}
							$user->endARUser();
						} else {
							echo "ERROR: The two passwords are not the same...<br>";
						}
					} else {
						echo "ERROR: You have to fill the password fields...<br>";
					}
				} else {
					echo "ERROR: You have to fill the email field...<br>";
				}
			} else {
				echo "ERROR: You have to fill the zip code field...<br>";
			}
		} else {
			echo "ERROR: You have to fill the address field...<br>";
		}
	} else {
		echo "ERROR: You have to fill the name field...<br>";
	}
}
?>

BDMySQL.class.php is for the database connection

ARUser.class.php has the functions to query/select/update, etc the table users.

thanks in advance.

[itworks]

i have register_globals = ON

and no i can't echo the variable 'cause i can't extract it from the database.