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Jul 10.2013

hi, im working on a website and i have made a connection between a drop down menu and my database. so far it displays the current usernames on the database, but when i click it and click the go button i want it to redirect to a new page with the selected users details. is this possible?

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@Strider64Jul 10.2013 — I'm assuming you have an unique id for each user? Just use that id as part of the new page in order to show that particular user's details.
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@liamster75authorJul 15.2013 — yes each user has an user_id and username. how would i do this? i dont quite understand how to get the id and then get the information?
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@ginerjmJul 15.2013 — What you click on could be setup as an anchor tag wherein your href points to a script that takes the GET parm from the anchor and uses it to do a query of your database again (you did it once in order to display the dropdown, right?) and gather all the user's details, then create a new web page to send back.

<i>
</i>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='getdetailspage.php?userid=$userid&gt;$userid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
....
....
&lt;/ul&gt;
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@liamster75authorJul 16.2013 — okay but how would it know what username details to display on the next page?
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@ginerjmJul 16.2013 — ??

You take the userid that comes in on the url and run with it. Or if userid is not enough, add more args to the url so that you can get what you need.
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