I have a members site where users are given up to 7 web page templates to display their products on. Each template has the same field names, differentiated by _1, _2... _7 at the end of each.
For example:
// Template 1 would have the following list of variables
product_name_1
product_descript_1
product_color_1
product_price_1
// Template 2 would have the following list of variables
product_name_2
product_descript_2
product_color_2
product_price_2
// through Template 7
I am able to display any variables for a specific user within a web page, by use of a query string identifying their user_id in the url, ie
http://domain.com/folder/page.php?id=78
I then $_Get any variable by simply identifying it in the PHP file, ie
$product_name_1
$product_descript_1
$product_color_1
$product_price_1
My problem is that the url must identify WHICH template, since each template identifies a specific product, ie _1, _2, ..._7. How do I use a parameter in the url, such as
http://domain.com/folder/page.php?id=78¶meter=_7
...to identify all variables ending with _7, which would appear in the web page? The parameter used in the url would identify the variables to be used in the web page, whether _1, _2, etc.
UPDATE
I have tried the various answers with only partial success, ie "Array_x
" is displayed when using any particular variable along with the suggested code. There may be a conflict with the rest of the code I'm using in page.php, as follows:
$db_connection = new mysqli("", "", "");
if ($db_connection->connect_errno) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $mysqli->connect_errno . ") " . $mysqli->connect_error;
}
$id = $_GET['id'];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE id = '$id' LIMIT 1") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_object($query);
$prop_address=array(
"_1"=>"prop_address_1",
"_2"=>"prop_address_2",
"_3"=>"prop_address_3"
//Through to Temp 7
);
$prop_address{$_GET['parameter']}=$row->prop_address;
echo " $prop_address{$_GET['parameter']} ";
"Array_x" displays (where x=1, 2, 3, etc is used as the parameter in url, ie http://domain.com/page.php?id=72¶meter=1), instead of the actual value held in the database table for $product_name{$_GET['parameter']}
. For some reason, the code is not picking up the value of the variable from the database table.
I couldn't get any of the answers given to work. I found an example given by a user for php variable variables in the PHP manual here and found it to work. I incorporated it into my code as follows:
$id = $_GET['id'];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE id = '$id' LIMIT 1") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_object($query);
for( $i = 1; $i < 8; $i++ )
{
$product_name[$_GET['parameter']] = "product_name_" . $i;
$product_descript[$_GET['parameter']] = "product_descript_" . $i;
$product_color[$_GET['parameter']] = "product_color_" . $i;
$product_price[$_GET['parameter']] = "product_price_" . $i;
}
${$product_name[1]} = "$row->product_name_1";
${$product_name[2]} = "$row->product_name_2";
${$product_name[3]} = "$row->product_name_3";
${$product_name[4]} = "$row->product_name_4";
${$product_name[5]} = "$row->product_name_5";
${$product_name[6]} = "$row->product_name_6";
${$product_name[7]} = "$row->product_name_7";
// List 7 variables and values for each field name
echo "${$prop_name[$_GET['par']]}";
The only problem is that mysql injection is possible with this code. If anyone could suggest a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
$_GET['parameter'] = '_2';
$product_name{$_GET['parameter']} = 'string';
echo $product_name_2; // string
or
$_GET['parameter'] = '_2';
$var = 'product_name'.$_GET['parameter'];
$$var = 'string';
echo $product_name_2; // string
Personally, I would use array's for this type of behavior.
Update:
Although the above works and tested ok, it is a lot more work than anyone would probably desired.
In lieu of simplicity, I would suggest the approach via array's.
$templates = array(2 => array(
'product_name' => "value",
'product_descript' => "value",
'product_color' => "value",
'product_price' => "value",
);
foreach($templates[substr($_GET['parameter'],1)] as $var => $val){
$variable = $var.$_GET['parameter'];
$$variable = $val;
}
The above is backwards compatible, it uses substr to remove the leading _ from your parameter.
Would it be possible to use arrays so...
$product_name=array(
"1"=>"Product name for template 1",
"2"=>"Product name for template 2"
//Through to Temp 7
);
echo $product_name[$_GET["parameter"]];
You could then do the same for the other variables.
You could fill each array by doing something like:
$row = mysql_fetch_object($query);
$product_name[$_GET['parameter']]=$row->product_name;
echo $product_name[$_GET['parameter']];
I may be missing something...