Pulling data and printing it in an HTML table

Question

From a MySQL table called \"submission\" containing the fields \"loginid, submissionid, title, url, datesubmitted, displayurl\", I would like to print an HTML table thats co

Answer 1

Your query is probably failing.

Try echoing the return from mysql_error(); after trying the query to see what the issue might be.

You should also protect your input against injection. If loginID is a username, you need to surround a string in a mySQL query with quotes - if loginID is a username. If it's an integer you may be okay.

There are more robust ways to do this but simply:

  $profile = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['profile']);

  $sqlStr = "SELECT loginid, submissionid, title, url, datesubmitted, displayurl
               FROM submission
              WHERE loginid = '$profile'
           ORDER BY datesubmitted DESC";

  $result = mysql_query($sqlStr);

  if($result) {
      // Handle output
  } 
  else {
      echo 'query failed';
      // don't leave this here in production!
      echo mysql_error();
  }