i have a website that provides chat service. i made member-information page for every member in chat. i want to display member-information to anyone who clicked at username in chat.

for example:

jack
hi
jhon
hi
jack 
i'm jack
jhon
i'm jhon

here is the header

$chat_messages_html .= '<li>' . '<span class="chat_message_header">' . '<a href="meeting/member_info">' . $chat_message->username . '</a>'

my problem how to get variable $chat_message->username in member information page to use it to retrieve information

i hope it is clear

i have a website that provides chat service. i made member-information page for every member in chat. i want to display member-information to anyone who clicked at username in chat.

for example:

jack
hi
jhon
hi
jack 
i'm jack
jhon
i'm jhon

here is the header

$chat_messages_html .= '<li>' . '<span class="chat_message_header">' . '<a href="meeting/member_info">' . $chat_message->username . '</a>'

my problem how to get variable $chat_message->username in member information page to use it to retrieve information

i hope it is clear

• php
• javascript
• html
• ajax
• href

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Add user id to link:

$chat_messages_html .= '<li>' .
                       '<span class="chat_message_header">' .
                       '<a href="meeting/member_info?userid=' . $userid . '">' .
                       $chat_message->username .
                       '</a>'

Then you can retrieve user id using $_GET["userid"] in meeting/member_info.php.

And please consider using htmlspecialchars() to escape dangerous content.

You can pass it through the query string:

'<a href="meeting/member_info?username="' . $chat_message->username . '">' . $chat_message->username . '</a>'