need help with login page and database display

[lwaterfo]

Hi all,
I am looking for php help. i want to create a login page for access to 1 table (data) in my database (app1) consisting of about 10 fields. I will be giving the user the password and creating a password for them, but I need them to be able to enter it along with their username for access to a table. Once they have access, I them to be able to
1) view the table in the database
2) perform a query on an id field (eg. to be able to search the table for records with the matching id).

I am willing to pay someone to help set me up with the basic code for this (paypal account needed).
Please pm. me if you are interested...

Thanks,
l.

[ApocDen]

piece of cake. :D

[lwaterfo]

I know...can you tell I am a newbie?? lol

[lwaterfo]

Hi,
I am trying to display my database using this code:
I want to display 11 fields per record in the database, how would I go about modifying this code to display only the records that I want?
(q = search parameter)

<?php

  // Get the search variable from URL

  $var = @$_GET['q'] ;
  $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable

// rows to return
$limit=10; 

// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
  {
  echo "<p>Please enter a search...</p>";
  exit;
  }

// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
  {
  echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
  exit;
  }

//connect to your database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE **
mysql_connect("localhost","username","password"); //(host, username, password)

//specify database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE **
mysql_select_db("database") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using

// Build SQL Query  
$query = "select * from the_table where 1st_field like \"%$trimmed%\"  
  order by 1st_field"; // EDIT HERE and specify your table and field names for the SQL query

 $numresults=mysql_query($query);
 $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults);

// If we have no results, offer a google search as an alternative

if ($numrows == 0)
  {
  echo "<h4>Results</h4>";
  echo "<p>Sorry, your search: &quot;" . $trimmed . "&quot; returned zero results</p>";

// google
 echo "<p><a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=" 
  . $trimmed . "\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up 
  " . $trimmed . " on Google\">Click here</a> to try the 
  search on google</p>";
  }

// next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0
  if (empty($s)) {
  $s=0;
  }

// get results
  $query .= " limit $s,$limit";
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");

// display what the person searched for
echo "<p>You searched for: &quot;" . $var . "&quot;</p>";

// begin to show results set
echo "Results";
$count = 1 + $s ;

// now you can display the results returned
  while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  $title = $row["1st_field"];

  echo "$count.)&nbsp;$title" ;
  $count++ ;
  }

$currPage = (($s/$limit) + 1);

//break before paging
  echo "<br />";

  // next we need to do the links to other results
  if ($s>=1) { // bypass PREV link if s is 0
  $prevs=($s-$limit);
  print "&nbsp;<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\">&lt;&lt; 
  Prev 10</a>&nbsp&nbsp;";
  }

// calculate number of pages needing links
  $pages=intval($numrows/$limit);

// $pages now contains int of pages needed unless there is a remainder from division

  if ($numrows%$limit) {
  // has remainder so add one page
  $pages++;
  }

// check to see if last page
  if (!((($s+$limit)/$limit)==$pages) && $pages!=1) {

  // not last page so give NEXT link
  $news=$s+$limit;

  echo "&nbsp;<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\">Next 10 &gt;&gt;</a>";
  }

$a = $s + ($limit) ;
  if ($a > $numrows) { $a = $numrows ; }
  $b = $s + 1 ;
  echo "<p>Showing results $b to $a of $numrows</p>";
  
?>

[metalix]

Where you have your query change * (all) to the fields you want.
SELECT column1,column2 FROM ...

[lwaterfo]

Do I need to include $ in front of the variable names?

I changed the code to:

$query = "select lastname, firstname, state, zip, jobtype, otherjobtype, nightavail, weekendavail, ptft, objective, resume from data where jobtype like "\%$trimmed%\" order by lastname";

but I am getting an error in the code around this line for an unexpected \

here are my errors:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 on line 31

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 on line 31

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'  on line 45

do you guys have any ideas?