Retrieving user information from database - help

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Right, my code that I have written will retrieve the records from the database table containing the users
but I only want to display the details of the user logged in rather than all of the users.

I can't seem to work out how to change it so it only displays the logged in user. 

<?php
include("database.php");

$query = "SELECT * FROM user ";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$num = mysql_num_rows ($result);
mysql_close();

if ($num > 0 ) {
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
$FirstName = mysql_result($result,$i,"FirstName");
$Surname = mysql_result($result,$i,"Surname");
$DOB = mysql_result($result,$i,"DOB");
$City = mysql_result($result,$i,"City");
$Postcode = mysql_result($result,$i,"Postcode");
$WebAddress = mysql_result($result,$i,"WebAddress");
$USER_ID = mysql_result($result,$i,"USER_ID");

echo "<b>First Name:</b> $FirstName<br>";
echo "<b>Surname:</b> $Surname<br>";
echo "<b>Date of Birth:</b> $DOB<br>";
echo "<b>City:</b> $City<br>";
echo "<b>Postcode:</b> $Postcode<br>";
echo "<b>Website:</b> $WebAddress<br>";
echo "<a href=\"account_save.php?id=$USER_ID\">Update</a>";
echo "<br><br>";

++$i; } } else { echo "The database is empty"; }

?>

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Your help is much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Commented:
Why not use a while loop to run though and put it within an if statement :

Obviously the $row array elements need to be adjusted to suit.
if ( $num > 0)
{
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)
{
echo "<b>First Name:</b> {$row[0]}<br>";
echo "<b>Surname:</b> {$row[1]}<br>";
echo "<b>Date of Birth:</b>{$row[2]}<br>";
echo "<b>City:</b> {$row[3]}<br>";
echo "<b>Postcode:</b> {$row[4]}<br>";
echo "<b>Website:</b>{$row[5]}<br>";
echo "<a href=\"account_save.php?id=$id\">Update</a>";
echo "<br><br>";

}

} // end if

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maeltar

Commented:
NOTE  Line 3 should read
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) )

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PSTCAT

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Commented:
Hi,

Thanks for your reply,

That code works for displaying the user's information
but I am still getting the other users in the table being displayed on the page.

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maeltar

Commented:
how do you know what user is logged in ?
As in is there a variable set to a value ?
maeltar
Commented:
If the user id is set in a variable you could adjust the sql to something similar to :

$query = "SELECT * FROM user where <user id field> = <variable holding user id>";

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PSTCAT

Author

Commented:
I see where you are going with that.

Thank you.

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