Members Area

buddysal

ok im trying to do something like the following....


$sp = $_GET['username'];

echo 'Welcome to your members area $sp';

echo 'Your affiliate url is below.<br>';
echo 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?SP=$sp';

but i cant get it to work lol

i need to have the $_GET[] get the username input from the login form... or would it be easier to get the info from the d/b?

jpmoriarty

well you cant just get it straight from the DB can you - how are you going to select which one?

What do you want it to do? do you append the username in the URL (which is what you'd use the $_GET for)?

buddysal

ok lets say... im at the login form....

username = jack
password = comic


$SP = jack

echo 'Welcome to your members area Jack!<p>';
echo 'Your affiliate link is below!<br>';
echo 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?SP=jack';

i just need to like pass the username input on to the members page... but there will be a time when i have to access to database to get # of referrals... so i dunno if it will be easier to just pass the data directly from the form, or just use a db connection...

nivek9991

Well, when you use a form, the variables are passed onto the page that is called using the form, as in:

print "<form name=\"i_dunno\" action=\"http://www.domain.com/blah.php\" method=\"post\">";
print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\">";
print "<input type=\"password\" name=\"password\">";
print "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\">";
print "</form>";

Then when blah.php is called, you can simply use:
$username

Basically with the forms, whatever name you give the input, that will be your variable name on the page called.

So if on the form you enter "jack" for username, when you hit submit, oh blah.php, if you do:
print "$username";
it will print "jack"

I'm not sure exactly how passwords work with encoding and such, but I think you get the idea...I hope? 🙂

batman

Your best bet would be to do something similar. To make sure that you get the variable no matter what do this.

$sp = $_POST['username'];

if ($sp == "")
$sp = $_GET['username'];

echo "Welcome to your members area $sp";

echo "Your affiliate url is below.<br>";
echo "http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?SP=$sp";

Notice I replaced your ' with " in the echo section.
That is almost positivily why it wouldn't work. Any time you have a variable in between ' ' instead of " ", for example:

This will only post $sp where you want it.

echo 'http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?SP=$sp';

If you were to use:

echo "http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?SP=$sp";

That would make it to where it would take the previously posted value of username and echo it where you want. 😃

-Blake