PHP - Pagination Problems With Search Engine

Hello,

I adapted the pagination script from the tutorial (great instruction and detail) from this site and it works perfectly. However, I added a search engine to it and it works like it should. The problem comes in with the following SQL query:
Code: [Select]
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM qa";

If i modify it to fit my query, the number at the bottom of the page disappears and the > >> links go to blank pages. Also all queried rows show on one page and doesn't stop at ten. How do i modify my pagination script with a search engine so people can query their results without 'breaking' the pagination script??

 

Hi All,

I have a pagination script that works correctly when a user clicks on a category heading, however when I am using it to try an display search results it does not take into account the set of records to display per page, it just shows all results.


<?php


echo '<h3>Search Results</h3><br />';



$query = "SELECT count(*) from merchants WHERE name LIKE '%$_GET[q]%' OR short like '%$_GET[q]%' OR full like '%$_GET[q]%' OR keywords like '%$_GET[q]%'"; 
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query));
$total_records = $row['count(*)'];
$records_per_page = 5;
$total_pages = ceil($total_records / $records_per_page);
$page = intval($p);
if ($page < 1 || $page > $total_pages) $page = 1;
$offset = ($page - 1) * $records_per_page; 
 
$limit = " LIMIT $offset, $records_per_page";



$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM merchants WHERE name LIKE '%$_GET[q]%' OR short like '%$_GET[q]%' OR full like '%$_GET[q]%' OR keywords like '%$_GET[q]%' ORDER BY m_id  DESC") ; 
echo mysql_error() ;



while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){

$name = $row['name'];
$short = $row['short'];
$per = $row['percent'];
$m_id = $row['m_id'];

?>
    
    <div id="cbbox">
    <a href="viewm.php?m_id=<?php echo $m_id;?>">
     <div class="cbname">
         <?php echo $name;?> &nbsp; - Up to <?php echo $per ;?>% Cashback Available
        </div>
        <div class="cbimage">
         <img src="pimage/<?php echo $name;?>.gif" height="50px" width="100px" />
        </div>
      <div class="cbshort">
         <?php echo $short;?>
        </div>
        </a>
        <div class="cbtweet">
        <a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Get up to <?php echo $per;?> percent Cashback on purchase from <?php echo $name;?> http://goo.gl/PLkp"><img src="images/cbtweet.png" width="90" height="50" alt="Tweet This" /></a>
 
        </div></div>
<br /><br />
<?php
}
if($total_records > 5)
{
for ($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) {
echo "<a title='page $i p=$i'>Page $i -  </a>";
}
}

?>
</div>


if I echo out $total_records it displays the correct amount (7 in the case I am looking at)

Any ideas?

Hi, I'm having two issues with my Search engine for my website. It is created to search through my database (it doesn't crawl through pages). The first problem I'm having is when I type in for example:
Super Mario Bros
and there is a row in my table with a field called Super Mario Brothers
this row is not included as a successful result to the search. I need to somehow modify my code to search every word in every table cell in the database.

So another example. I have 5 rows, each with one cell, named as follows:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
If I was to type in the search box:
One Two Three Four Five
it should display all rows (it obviously doesn't do that right now lol)

The second issue has to do with my sql query.
It looks like this:

$query = "select * from sheets where artist like \"%$trimmed%\" OR title like \"%$trimmed%\" 
  order by artist"; 
 $numresults=mysql_query($query);

I need this query to search in the columns artist and title (like it is doing above) AS WELL as search only those rows that have an active status set to 'yes'.
I tried to type something like:
$query = "select * from sheets where active='yes' && artist like \"%$trimmed%\" OR title like \"%$trimmed%\" 
  order by artist"; 
but this obviously causes problems. How do i require the query to include rows that are active, but have it look through artist OR title as well?

Here is my code below. Any insight appreciated. Will be working on it til someone is available. Thanks

<?php
  include_once('inc/functions.php');
  // Get the search variable from URL

  $var = @mysql_safe($_GET['q']) ;
  $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable

// rows to return
$limit=10000; 
// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
  {
  $error = "<tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: #f43636; background-color: #fe6a6a;'><strong>Type In A Sheet To Search For</strong></td></tr>";
  }

// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
  {
    $error = "<tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: #f43636; background-color: #fe6a6a;'><strong>Type In A Sheet To Search For</strong></td></tr>";
  }

// Build SQL Query  
$query = "select * from sheets where artist like \"%$trimmed%\" OR title like \"%$trimmed%\" 
  order by artist"; 

 $numresults=mysql_query($query);
 $numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults);

// If we have no results

if ($numrows == 0)
  {
// If search was not found
  $error = "<tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: #f43636; background-color: #fe6a6a;'><strong>Unfortunately that sheet was not found, however, please request it by clicking below</strong></td></tr><tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align: center; border-left-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-color: #f43636; background-color: #f5f5f5;'><a href='request.php'>Request A Sheet Here</a></td></tr>";
  }

// next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0
  if (empty($s)) {
  $s=0;
  }

// get results
  $query .= " limit $s, $limit";
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");
  $search = "&nbsp;";
  $break = "<br />";
if($var!=""){
$search = "Search:";
$break = "";
}
?>
<br /><div id='headsearch'></div>
<div style="width: 210px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
<form name="form" action="search.php" method="get">
  <div style="float: left;"><input type="text" name="q" /></div>
  <div style="float: right;"><input type="image" src="img/search.png" alt="Search" name="Submit" value="Search" /></div>
</form>
</div>
<?php
// display what the person searched for
echo "<center><div style='width: 210px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;'>$search <span style='color: #6aa504; margin-left; auto; margin-right: auto;'>" . stripslashes($var) . "</span></div></center>";
?>

<?php

// begin to show results set
$count = 1 + $s ;


  $greenboxleft = "greenboxleft";
  $greenboxright = "greenboxright";
  $grayboxleft = "grayboxleft";
  $grayboxright = "grayboxright";
  $colorvalue = 0;
  
echo "$break<table width='700px' align='center' style='border-collapse:separate;
border-spacing:0px;'><th style='background-color: #93DB70; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: #6aa504;'>Artist</th><th style='background-color: #93DB70; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: #6aa504;'>Title</th>";
if($error==""){
// now you can display the results returned
  while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  $artist = $row["artist"];
  $title = $row["title"];
  
  if(($colorvalue%2)==0){
  $styleleft = $greenboxleft;
  $styleright = $greenboxright;
  }
  else{
  $styleleft = $grayboxleft;
  $styleright = $grayboxright;
  }
  
  
echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td align='center' width='350px' id='$styleleft'><div id='songsboxleft'><strong>". ucwords($row['artist']). "</strong></div></td>";
  echo "<td align='center' width='350px' id='$styleright'><div id='songsboxright'><a target='_blank' name='downloadclick' href='download.php?sheet=".$row['url']."&artist=".$row['artist']."&title=".$row['title']."'>" .ucwords($row['title']). "</a></div></td>";

echo "</tr>";
$colorvalue++;
}
}
else{
echo $error;
}

echo "</table>";  
?>

I want to know how to display results from mysql database by filling in a form. but i have found a tutorial which shows typing in a text box which displays results. if i follow this tutorial will it help me to understand and create php coding to display results for my form?

I require a page to be added to my website. This page will facilitate a refined search via Google, Bing and Yahoo search engine simultaneously , show the top 5 of each engine.

Is this possible using php ?

Thank's