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    copied!<p>I am trying to retrieve information from my database depending on the ID a user types into my URL.</p> <p>For example: If USER A went to www.exampleurl.com/index.php?id=1 it would echo out the user's information which has an ID of 1. Same thing if the id was 2, 3, etc. Users are entering their information via a form in a different file called submit.php.</p> <p>Here is my code to retrieve data depending on ID :</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $id = $_GET['id']; //Variables for connecting to your database. $hostname = ""; $username = ""; $dbname = ""; $password = ""; $usertable = ""; //Connecting to your database $con = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE ("Unable to connect to database! Please try again later."); mysql_select_db($dbname, $con); $query = "SELECT * FROM $usertable WHERE id = $id LIMIT 1"; $result = mysql_query($query, $con); echo "Hello, " . $result['name']; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any ideas on if my SELECT request is wrong? </p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>Here is my code for showing the data altogether in a table. This works fine.</p> <pre><code> &lt;?php //Variables for connecting to your database. $hostname = ""; $username = ""; $dbname = ""; $password = "!"; $usertable = ""; //Connecting to your database $con = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) OR DIE ("Unable to connect to database! Please try again later."); mysql_select_db($dbname, $con); //Fetching from your database table. $query = "SELECT * FROM $usertable"; $result = mysql_query($query, $con); echo "&lt;table border=1&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt; ID &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; Name &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; Age &lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;"; while($record = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "&lt;tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . $record['id'] . "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . $record['name'] . "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . $record['age'] . "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;/tr&gt;"; } echo "&lt;/table&gt;"; ?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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