Thanks to all who have replied. As you probably have noticed im a total novice to php who is trying to achieve big things.

Richard, ive included your suggested code and now my php script is working properly. But I dont want to be a php copy/paste newb who has no clue of how things are working. If its not too much would you (or anybody) give a brief explanation of what this code is doing? Or are there any tutorials online that I can read that will educate me on this? Thanks again to all for your replies. Ive saved them all for future reference.

atleast this part: $user_id = mysql_real_escape_string((int) $_GET['user_id']);

I understand the rest.

<?php
include "db.php";
$user_id = mysql_real_escape_string((int) $_GET['user_id']);
$query = "SELECT user_id, user_name FROM inf_member WHERE user_id=$user_id";
$result = mysql_query($query);
        if ( ! $result ) {
                die ("Could not perform query $query: ".mysql_error()."\n");
        }
                while($myrow = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
             {
                    echo "<br>";
                    echo $myrow['user_name'];
                    echo "<br>";
            }
?>

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