[RESOLVED] PHP hyperlinks

[everythingis]

On a page that lists all my members, I'm trying to create the hyperlinks to display a member profile when clicking on their image.

The problem I'm running into is that, while the hyperlink displays correctly in the browser with the correct $profile_id, the destination only directs me to my own profile & not to the member I am trying to view.

So, it's correctly displaying each id like this, for example:
www.mywebsite.com/member_profile.php?profile_id=1
www.mywebsite.com/member_profile.php?profile_id=2
www.mywebsite.com/member_profile.php?profile_id=3

But it only directs to the logged in users profile.

I'm not sure if this is an isssue where I need to define something or pass a variable on a member profile script, or something that needs to be queried in the login script, or if I'm lacking something within my member_list.php script.

member_list.php

<?php

// Connect to database
include_once "includes/scripts/connect_to_mysql.php";


// Retrieve the user data from MySQL
		$query = "SELECT user_id, firstname, lastname, username FROM member_profile WHERE email_activated='1' ORDER BY sign_up_date DESC LIMIT 20";
  		$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

	$new_member_list = "";
	while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ 

		$profile_id = $row["user_id"];
		$user_id = $row["user_id"];
		$username = $row["username"];
		$firstname = $row["firstname"];
		$lastname = $row["lastname"];

		$check_pic = "members/".$username."/image01.jpg";
		$default_pic = "members/default_user/image01.jpg";
			if (file_exists($check_pic)) {
				$user_pic = "<a href=\"member_profile.php?profile_id=$profile_id\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"$check_pic\" width=\"100px\" /></a>"; // forces picture to be 100px wide and no more
			} else {
				$user_pic = "<a href=\"member_profile.php?profile_id=$profile_id\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"$default_pic\" width=\"100px\" /></a>"; // forces default picture to be 100px wide and no more
			}

		$new_member_list .= '
      					<table class="formDetails">
							<tr class="formDetails">
								<td class="formField" align="left">'.$user_pic.'</td>
								<td class="formDetails" align="left"><p class="eventform">'."$firstname". ' ' ."$lastname".'</p></td>
							</tr>
						</table>
						';


      }  //END WHILE LOOP

?>  

[dagon]

if the id is right then its not the members_list page at fault, but the member_profile.php

[everythingis]

Thanks, so would I just create a $profile_id session header on the member_profile.php to pass that variable, or would you define it as a variable from a query within the script?

[bradgrafelman]

everythingis;10951533 wrote:

Thanks, so would I just create a $profile_id session header on the member_profile.php to pass that variable, or would you define it as a variable from a query within the script?

You're already passing the profile_id variable in the URL...

[dagon]

members_list.php

should have something like

if (!empty($_GET['profile_id']){
$profile_id =(int) $_GET['profile_id'];
}else{
//either a message or fall back default id
}

then $profile_id is used in your db query

[everythingis]

So, from that URL which holds the profile_id, and passes it to the destination URL, how do I capture that so it displays the correct member profile that is attributed for that ID on a member_profile.php page? I think that's where I'm getting lost.

[everythingis]

thanks Dagon! I'll give it a go.

[everythingis]

ahh, I figured it out, was a stupid mistake on my part with the URL because profile_id wasn't defined in the databse, should have been written as .php?user_id=$profile_id instead of how I had it with .php?profile_id=$profile_id