I got a numerical ID of 20 characters witch looks like 10527391670258314752, given this ID, how can I get the username associated with it?
The table looks like this:
id | name | password | balance
10527391670258314752 | Jhon | 12345 | 12.51
The username retrieved from the database should then be stored into $_SESSION['name'].
I've tried this:
$connection = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', '', 'user_data');
$id = '10527391670258314752';
$query = "SELECT username FROM user_data WHERE id = '$id'";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
$record = mysqli_fetch_array($id);
$_SESSION['id'] = $record;
echo $_SESSION['id'];
The output is Array() instead of the name.
I would strongly recommend to avoid mysqli extension. You should use some database abstraction library instead of using the mysqli functions directly. mysqli class is not suited to be used on its own.
If you really want to do it with pure mysqli class, you have few options.
First, you need to open the connection properly. These 3 lines ensure you have the connection ready:
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT); // enable error reporting
$mysqli = new mysqli('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'dbname');
$mysqli->set_charset('utf8mb4'); // always set the charset
Then you need to prepare a statement, bind the parameter and execute it.
$id = '10527391670258314752';
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare('SELECT username FROM user_data WHERE id=?');
$stmt->bind_param('s', $id);
$stmt->execute();
Once the statement is executed you need to fetch the results. If you have only one variable you could simply use bind_result()
$stmt->bind_result($_SESSION['name']);
$stmt->fetch();
echo $_SESSION['name'];
However, this approach is not recommended and not very flexible. Instead it's better to fetch the whole result set and get an array containing the first row.
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$row = $result->fetch_array();
$_SESSION['name'] = $row['username'];
echo $_SESSION['name'];
As an alternative with PDO the same code would look like this:
session_start();
$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=$charset", $user, $pass, [
\PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
\PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false,
]);
$id = '10527391670258314752';
$stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT username FROM user_data WHERE id=?');
$stmt->execute([$id]);
$_SESSION['name'] = $stmt->fetchColumn();
echo $_SESSION['name'];