Profile Page

[iNFERiON]

I am trying to create a small profile page, which should show information of the user specified as the GET varible 'uid'. So if the URL is profile.php?uid=1 it should show the info of user 1. I define the users in the PHP file itself, since there are rarely to be added any new users, a database is not neccesary.

I define users like this:

// User 1: John
$name1 = "John";
$function1 = "Administrator";
$sex1 = "Male";
$age1 = "32";
$country1 = "New York, NY, USA";

I am trying to call upon user variables like this, but without any luck:

    <td width="166">Name:</td>
    <td width="96"><?php echo "$name" . $_GET['uid'] . ""; ?></td>

All it shows on the profile page is the uid. So it says: Name: 1, if you use uid=1.
How can I properly combine the GET variable with the strings ?

Thanks in advance.

[Atomiku]

Hmm... I can see where you are going with this. Theres two ways you can do this:

First, you can use eval put together a variable name out of name and UID like so:

eval("echo \$name{$_GET['uid']};");

OR, the way I would do it (And much more efficient) is this:

<?
$users[1]['name'] = "john";
$users[1]['function'] = "Administrator";
$users[1]['sex'] = "Male";
$users[1]['age'] = "32";
$users[1]['country'] = "New York, NY, USA";
?>

thats the profile defined, then this:

At the top of the code: $uid = $_GET['uid'];
<td width="166">Name:</td>
    <td width="96"><?php echo $users[$uid]['name'] ?></td> 

There shouldnt be any problems with this.I am just going to check now...

[iNFERiON]

Ah yes, that second method works excellent. Thanks Atomiku 🙂