Displaying another users' profile [closed]

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I have developed a php file called "profile.php" that displays the current user's profile.But, I could not decide how to display others' profile pages. I mean, for example, i displayed all of the members on the main page and clicked one of them. Then, should i use "a href" tag for every user to direct to another php file, for instance, another_profile.php . If so, How can i send the clicked user's information, name, surname etc. ,to the another_profile.php? Thanks

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try GET variable...

<a href = "profile.php?profile_id=1">Check out the profile!</a>

Next catch the profile_id query string $id = $_GET['profile_id'] and find the id (1 in this case) in your database to get the data that belongs to that profile.

I hope it helps.

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Somehow your profile has to accept a GET parameter, for example id. That should be the Id you request to the database, instead of the current user's id.

Your page might look like this:

if(isset($_GET['id']) && is_numeric($_GET['id'])) //Is there an ID parameter, and is it numeric?
    $id = $_GET['id']; //There was a user id in the url (profile.php?id=1)
else 
    $id = $_SESSION['user_id']; //No id specified, get the current user's id. You need to change this to your own session key.

Then use your $id value to get all the information you need, for example:

$userInfo = mysql_query("SELECT firstname, lastname, etc, etc FROM user WHERE id = $id");