Thanks in advance for any light shed.
I have a mysql database consisting of customers with some fields pertaining to each customer. currently running on one of my lamp servers. There is security risks with my code at the moment, but I plan to get the functionality i'm looking for and then reconfigure the code for a tighter security. At the moment I have an html index file that calls on php script to search mysql database by firstname or lastname. Upon this query it displays a list of users and allows me to modify the user. When I click modify it pulls the correct customer id number, but it is not displaying any current information, nor allowing me to update the info.
To summarize, I would like to search a customer, and it pull up selected fields and show the content and allow me to actively change the data and resend it to the database.
My search.html code:
<html>
<body>
<form action="scripts/search.php" method="post">
Firstname: <input type="text" name="firstname">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<form action="scripts/lastnamesearch.php" method="post">
Lastname: <input type="text" name="lastname">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<form action="scripts/phonenumbersearch.php" method="post">
Phone Number: <input type="text" name="phone">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
MY search.PHP Script: //this script allows me to search the database by filling out one of the forms and clicking submit. Each of the forms calls upon it's own individual script, I realize that this is probably cumbersome, due to my lack of coding knowledge.
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","*****","*******");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM customers WHERE `firstname` LIKE '$_POST[firstname]'");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>id</th>
<th>firstname</th>
<th>lastname</th>
<th>phone</th>
<th>address</th>
<th>notes</th>
<th>additional notes</th>
<th>passwords</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['id'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['firstname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['lastname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['phone'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['address'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['notes'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['addnotes'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['passwords'] . "</td>";
echo "<a href=\"modify.php?id=" . $row['id'] . "\">Modify User</a>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
My modify.php script: //this is where I believe one of my problems lie. when I click modify user on the search.php script it calls on this script and it loads the correct user/customer id in the address bar, but it doesn't show any existing data, nor does it update the data that I fill in the cells.
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","crapola1","Computition");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$mysqli_query = "SELECT * FROM customers WHERE ID = $_get[id]";
$mysqli_result = mysqli_query($mysqli_query);
$customer = mysqli_fetch_array($mysqli_result);
?>
<h1> You are modifying a user</h1>
<form action="<?php echo $SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
Firstname<input type="text" name="inputFirstname" value="<?php echo $row['firstname']; ?>" /><br />
Notes<input type="text" name="inputNotes" value="<?php echo $row['notes']; ?>" />
<br />
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Modify" />
</form>
Thanks again, I've been searching on this topic for about a week now and have pieced together this much, but can't seem to get over this "hump"