Making a profile page

[TimC]

Hello all,

As part of my website I'm making a profile page. When a user signs up, they put lots of information about themselves into a database, they can then edit it at a later time. SO the profile page needs to show the current infomation, and be able to be edited.

What i was thinking was, if I have a form, I can get the value for each bit of the form from the database, then display it. But that doesn't work, as it won't let me combine php with my table. Any other ideas?

I also need to redirect the user to a different page based on some conditions. Is there a redirect method in php?

thanks!

[Sayian]

Why wouldnt it let you take data from the database and put it into a edit_profile page using a form?

You can do this ...

Also .. you can use javascript , or header() to send the user to different pages

header() is a php function , while javascript is javascript , but can work inside php if done right.

[TimC]

I tried something like:

<table border=0>

<tr><td> <?php "<INPUT TYPE=text value=$databasevalue>" </td> ?>

...

but that wouldn't work...

[kburger]

<?php "<INPUT TYPE=text value=$databasevalue>" </td> ?>

You didn't tell PHP what to do with that enclosed string. I think you meant

<?php echo "<INPUT TYPE=text value=$databasevalue>" </td> ?>

or better yet

<table border=0>

<tr><td><INPUT TYPE="text" name="something" value="<?php echo $databasevalue ?>"></td>

...