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Posted by Brian Telford on 07/05/07 14:55
"desmond" <desmond@sivan.coughlan.fr> wrote in message
news:3gjsl4-2p5.ln1@sivan.coughlan.fr...
> shimmyshack <matt.farey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 6:14 pm, shimmyshack <matt.fa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 28, 2:53 pm, desmond <desm...@zeouane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > .. by 'works', I mean that thera are no errors. Unfortunately,
>>> > there's no
>>> > output either. :-(
>>>
>>> > Here is the HTML that I have in 'test.php' ...
>>>
>>> >http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=649529794&size=o
>>>
>>> > Here is the php code in the file select.php ...
>>>
>>> >http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=649529810&size=o
>>>
>>> > When i call up test.php' from my webbrowser, I enter say 'tom' and I
>>> > get no
>>> > results. $dbname _is_ populated and there _is_ a user in there called
>>> > 'tom'.
>>>
>>> > Can someone advise..? Thanks
>>>
>>> > [1] I hope this is the right forum..
>>>
>>> your markup is incorrect you need
>>> name="first_name" rather than
>>> id=....
>>> same goes for them all
>>>
>>> also you have {['country']} rather than {$row['country']}
>>>
>>> also where are you getting $first_name from in the query?
>>> do you set it to
>>>
>>> $first_name = mysql_string_real_escape( $_GET['first_name'] );
>>>
>>> you know the form uses GET if you dont specify otherwise.
>>>
>>> your code is shall we say not quite all there yet, I would look at
>>> some examples online and then adjst them to suit your needs.
>>
>> sorry should have been:
>> mysql_real_escape_string
>
> OK now you're starting to scare me, 'cos I'd imagined that I could set up
> some sort of PhP catalogue by following some tutorials, doing the minimum
> to get it up and running, and then 'perfect' it by learning what I needed.
> But it looks like I was wrong. I need to learn the whole thing before I
> can even begin to do this, don't I? OK, next question: is there such a
> thing as a PhP script that I can download, to 'drop in' to my site? The
> DB
> itself is bog-standard, users, stock etc.
Try oscommerce it's fairly simple to set up. Easy to expand with new modules
and widely used
so plenty of support forums. The best bit it's FREE.
www.oscommerce.com
Brian
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