OK I have made a little progress and now face something else. I will paste my code here. OK here goes. I am loading a php page from another page by clicking on a table row. This table is filled with data from mysql. When i click on a row I am sent to http://whatever.net/spoilertable.php?item=7 I use '7' just as an example here. 7 is in a column called 'primary' in the row of my db. Its an incrimental key. OK. When spoilertable.php?item=7 loads I am using the $_get command to store that 7 in a variable so that i can use it to select a piece of data from the row with 7 as the entry under the primary column. now i KNOW the my variable is working because i thre in a echo command just to see what shoed up and when i echo the variable ($local_item) the 7 shows up. now whats NOT workign is either my query..the way i have it set up...or the way im trying to display the results of that query. basically what i have is a table with a story name a chapter a date the stopry chapter takes place on and an overall count of days...none of that really matters but its just background info for u. when i click the row that info is in what im trying to do is bring up a spoiler..a chapter synopsys if you will. that synopsys is in the same db row as the other information i just spoke of as well as the incrimental number i call 'primary' in the db. so can u tell me whats wrong here?
thanks in advance
tanner
<body>
<?php
$local_item=$_GET["item"];
$username="csniccsu_surftan";
$password="Ryanishott@69";
$database="csniccsu_timeline";
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM basicinfo WHERE primary= '$local_item' ");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
mysql_close();
?>
<p><?php echo $row['spoilers']; ?></p>
<p><?php echo $local_item; ?>get item should be here</p>
</body>