Hi there. I just wanted to know something for a project I am working on. I'm not a very good PHP coder and however I word the question leads to a bunch of jibberish I don't understand.
If User 1's ID is 1 and login is test, how do I find their ID from the login.
Essentially, how do I find 'id' column when the 'login' column is 'test'.
If anyone can just explain it I'd love that.
Looks like you're using phpmyadmin, and perhaps mysql. Normally, your HTML will have a form that will use POST to send the login (and password) to your PHP script. The PHP script will then have a $_POST
variable containing all the data that was POSTed to it, including their login
. $_POST
is an array with named elements, and what name your login
field is in depends on what you named the input field in the html.
After that, to get their ID it's a simple matter of querying your database with a SELECT
query such as SELECT id, login FROM your_table
. Look up how to run mysql queries in PHP and access the query results: