a profile viewing/editing feature

[eclipser221]

I am in the process of teaching myself PHP/MySQL. So far i have a login script, a registration script, and a change password script.

I was wondering how a profile page should be set up.
I was thinking normal users can view all profiles. Admins can view/edit them. And then user A can edit user A's profile.

I have some ideas in mind but i was just wonderign what other people do.

I was thinking:

If the user is admin or user is the owner of profile then (
display profile with editable input forms displaying the information that is in the profile.)

If the user is not an admin or user is not owner of profile then (
display profile with the informtion of the profile jsut in echo form so it is un editable.)

I am jsut making this whole project jsut to learn as i go.

[rsmith]

I would make it so that if the user is an admin or viewing their own profile they would have an "Edit Profile" link on the page, otherwise they would just see the profile. You could break it down to the point of breaking the profile into chunks, like MySpace does, and have an (edit) next to each section for the admins / user. In both cases the profile displays normally and clicking on an Edit link takes you to the section for the profile with the input in textboxes so that it can be edited.