PHP - Filter Search

I'm ready for the next step on my site, which is learning how to filter results down with a second search.

The scenario is: A viewer searches for a plant by 4 variables to describe the leaf. After submit, they go to the results page, with 200 paginated results. (This is where I've gotten to)

Now, on that same page, they choose to further narrow their results by searching those 200 results for plants that have purple flowers. Maybe they get 40 results and can use another variable to narrow further - and so on.

What's the best way to set this up? I've been looking into temporary tables, but it seems to be a challenge because the table deletes the moment they leave that page or close the connection? Sessions seem like another possibility, but I read there's security issues.

What's the best way to set this up? Just re-query the database with the entire set of variables from both the first and second searches? is it quicker to build some type of permanent table with a timestamp that I can use to delete it after the user has gone away?

 The result pages is supposed to have  pagination like google  help me please

 

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

Hello,

Does anyone know a tutorial I can follow to create my own search engine over the items I have in my SQL database?
I find a lot of tutorials but they are all 'one word searches' which means if you type two words you will get all results that contain either word (too many hits).

If the search engine tutorial displays result with AJAX even better.

Thanks for help.
df

Hi all

How do I modify the below code to search multiple tables in mySQL database?

$query = "select * from store_items where description like \"%$trimmed%\"  or title like \"%$trimmed%\" or dimensions like \"%$trimmed%\" order by id ASC";

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

It is for a search function and I need it to search another table called 'about_text' and 'faq_text'

Thanks
Pete

Friends,

I want to extract the Search Keyword from the URL, a visitor came from. I am using a PHP CMS and want to show the Keyword on my Blog.

So if they search "abcd" from google, i want to extract "abcd" and echo on my blog.

Here is the coding i could got hold of, but its not working, not echoing anything

<?php

function pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($ref) {
    $search_engines = array('google.com' => 'q',
'go.google.com' => 'q',
'images.google.com' => 'q',
'video.google.com' => 'q',
'news.google.com' => 'q',
'blogsearch.google.com' => 'q',
'maps.google.com' => 'q',
'local.google.com' => 'q',
'search.yahoo.com' => 'p',
'search.msn.com' => 'q',
'bing.com' => 'q',
'msxml.excite.com' => 'qkw',
'search.lycos.com' => 'query',
'alltheweb.com' => 'q',
'search.aol.com' => 'query',
'search.iwon.com' => 'searchfor',
'ask.com' => 'q',
'ask.co.uk' => 'ask',
'search.cometsystems.com' => 'qry',
'hotbot.com' => 'query',
'overture.com' => 'Keywords',
'metacrawler.com' => 'qkw',
'search.netscape.com' => 'query',
'looksmart.com' => 'key',
'dpxml.webcrawler.com' => 'qkw',
'search.earthlink.net' => 'q',
'search.viewpoint.com' => 'k',
'mamma.com' => 'query');
    $delim = false;
    if (isset($search_engines[$ref])) {
        $delim = $search_engines[$ref];
    } else {
        if (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'google'))
            $delim = "q";
elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.atomz.'))
            $delim = "sp-q";
elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.msn.'))
            $delim = "q";
elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.yahoo.'))
            $delim = "p";
        elseif (preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $ref))
            $delim = "bellsouth";
    }
    return $delim;
}

/**
 * retrieve the search terms from search engine query
 * */ 
function pk_stt2_function_get_terms($d) {
    $terms       = null;
    $query_array = array();
    $query_terms = null;
    $query = explode($d.'=', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
    $query = explode('&', $query[1]);
    $query = urldecode($query[0]);
    $query = str_replace("'", '', $query);
    $query = str_replace('"', '', $query);
    $query_array = preg_split('/[\s,\+\.]+/',$query);
    $query_terms = implode(' ', $query_array);
    $terms = htmlspecialchars(urldecode(trim($query_terms)));
    return $terms;
}

/**
 * get the referer
 * */ 
function pk_stt2_function_get_referer() {
    if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) || ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == '')) return false;
    $referer_info = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
    $referer = $referer_info['host'];
    if(substr($referer, 0, 4) == 'www.')
        $referer = substr($referer, 4);
    return $referer;
}



$referer = pk_stt2_function_get_referer();
if (!$referer) return false;
$delimiter = pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($referer);
if( $delimiter ){
$term = pk_stt2_function_get_terms($delimiter);
}
echo $term;
?>


May someone help?

Natasha T

Hello,

I'm developing a website that asks the user to submit a keyword for a search. The results should display matches for this keyword, but also show matches for related keywords (in order of relevenace!).

I'm planning on building up a library of which search terms users use in the same sessions (e.g. if someone searches for "it jobs" and "php jobs", I'll know the terms are correlated), and I'll also measure the click-through rates of the items on the results list.

I've been spending all weekend trying to map out the design for this but it's proving incredibly complicated and I think the solution is likely to be on the internet somewhere already?!

Please could someone point me in the right direction if you've come accross this problem before?

Thanks a million,

Stu

I am developing a intranet forum in Php and MySQL and I am using ajax to display searched results on the same page but right now I am using query LIKE text% to search in database which is slower. but I want to make it fast search engin which can parse *,+ and show result.

Since I am using ajax i am not able to use free search engin,so if possible pls provide a complete solution

Hello. I am working on a php script for searching a database table. I am really new to this, so I used the this tutorial http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search

I managed to get all the things working the way I wanted, except one important and crucial thing.
Let me explain.
My table consist of three columns, like this:

ID(bigint20)    title(text)        link (varchar255)
=============================
ID1                title1                link-1
ID2                title2                link-2
etc...

Like I said, I managed to make the script display results for a search query based on the title. Want I want it to do more, but I can't seem to find the right resource to learn how, is to place a "Download" button under each search result with its corresponding link from the table.

Here is the code I used.

<?php

$dbHost = 'localhost'; // localhost will be used in most cases
// set these to your mysql database username and password.
$dbUser = 'user'; 
$dbPass = 'pass';
$dbDatabase = 'db'; // the database you put the table into.
$con = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to MySQL Server. Error: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($dbDatabase) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to database {$dbDatabase}. Error: " . mysql_error());
// Set up our error check and result check array
$error = array();
$results = array();
// First check if a form was submitted. 
// Since this is a search we will use $_GET
if (isset($_GET['search'])) {
   $searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']);
   $searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript.
   
   if (strlen($searchTerms) < 3) {
      $error[] = "Search terms must be longer than 3 characters.";
   }else {
      $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection.
   }
   
   // If there are no errors, lets get the search going.
   if (count($error) < 1) {
      $searchSQL = "SELECT title, link FROM db WHERE title LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'";

      $searchResult = mysql_query($searchSQL) or trigger_error("There was an error.<br/>" . mysql_error() . "<br />SQL Was: {$searchSQL}");
      
      if (mysql_num_rows($searchResult) < 1) {
         $error[] = "The search term provided {$searchTerms} yielded no results.";
      }else {
         $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

       

   
         }
      
      }
   }
}

function removeEmpty($var) {
   return (!empty($var)); 


}
?>

      <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?>
      <form method="GET" action="search?" name="searchForm">
         Search for title: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" />
        
         <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
      </form>

    <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Rezultate lucrari de licenta sau disertatie pentru {$searchTerms} :<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?>




 $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

 
I would like the results to be displayed like this

Results for SearchItem:

Result 1
Download | Other link
Result 2
Download | Other link
etc.... or something like this.

So, how do I add the data from the link row into a text(Dowload), within an <a href> tag (well, at least I guess it would go this way) ?
My first tries (fueled by my lack of knowledge) where things like

$results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> <a href="{$row['link']}">Download</a> <br /> ";

but I keep getting lots of errors, and then I don't know much about arrays and stuff (except basic notions);
So there it is. I am really stuck and can't seem to find any workaround for this.
Any suggestions? (examples, documentation, anything would do, really)
Thanks,
Radu

I have code to search a database of members, I can search by lastname but having a little problem. I want to be able to search by lastname starting with the first letter. (ie:  a or b or c or d and so on). As it is right now I can only search by first letter of last name if I add % to the search (ie: a% b% c%) will give me all members with the last names starting with the approiate letter designation. I'm not sure how to handle this, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Code: [Select]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
 
</head>
<body>
<center><table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" border="0">
<h4>Search</h4>
 
<form name="search" method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF?>">
Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in <Select NAME="field">

<Option VALUE="lname">Last Name</option>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>
 
<?php 
 
// check to see if anything is posted
if (isset($_POST['find'])) {$find = $_POST['find'];}
if (isset($_POST['searching'])) {$searching = $_POST['searching'];}
if (isset($_POST['field'])) {$field = $_POST['field'];}
 
//This is only displayed if they have submitted the form 
if (isset($searching) && $searching=="yes") {
echo "<h4>Results</h4><p>";
// If they did not enter a search term we give them an error
if (empty($find)) {
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; exit;
}
 
// Otherwise we connect to our Database 
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "1910") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("cmc_member") or die(mysql_error());
 
// We preform a bit of filtering 
$find = strtoupper($find);
$find = strip_tags($find); $find = trim ($find); 
 
// Now we search for our search term, in the field the user specified 
$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE upper($field) LIKE'$find'");
 
// And we display the results 
if($results && mysql_num_rows($results) > 0)
{
    $i = 0;
    $max_columns = 3;
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results))
   {
       // make the variables easy to deal with
       extract($row);

       // open row if counter is zero
       if($i == 0)
          echo "<tr>";

       // make sure we have a valid product ALIGN='CENTER'

       if($fname != "" && $fname != null)
          echo "<td ALIGN='CENTER'><FONT COLOR='red'><b>$fname $lname</b></FONT><br> $address <br> $city $state $zip <br>$phone<br><a href=\"mailto: $email\">$email</a><br></td>";

       // increment counter - if counter = max columns, reset counter and close row
       if(++$i == $max_columns)
       {
           echo "</tr>";
           $i=0;
           }  // end if
   } // end while

} // end if results

// clean up table - makes your code valid!
if($i < $max_columns)
{
    for($j=$i; $j<$max_columns;$j++)
        echo "<td>&nbsp;</td>";

}

//This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that 
$anymatches = mysql_num_rows($results);
 
if ($anymatches == 0) {
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>"; }
 
//And we remind them what they searched for 
echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find;
}
?>
</tr>
</table></center>
</body>
</html>

Hello All,

Hello Guys,

I need some help  here.. I want to implement a Bad word filter and not quite sure how to do it..

I am grabbing the following vars from the text fields

$ad_title = filter_var($_POST['ad_title'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING,FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES);
$ad_body = filter_var($_POST['description'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING,FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES);

Then its inserted into the db.

I would like to run it through this function first..

Code: [Select]

FUNCTION BadWordFilter(&$text, $replace){

 
     // fill this array with the bad words you want to filter and their replacements
     $bads = ARRAY (
          ARRAY("butt","b***"),
          ARRAY("poop","p***"),
          ARRAY("crap","c***")
     );
 
     IF($replace==1) {                                        //we are replacing
          $remember = $text;
 
          FOR($i=0;$i<sizeof($bads);$i++) {               //go through each bad word
               $text = EREGI_REPLACE($bads[$i][0],$bads[$i][1],$text); //replace it
          }
 
          IF($remember!=$text) RETURN 1;                     //if there are any changes, return 1
 
     } ELSE {                                                  //we are just checking
 
          FOR($i=0;$i<sizeof($bads);$i++) {               //go through each bad word
               IF(EREGI($bads[$i][0],$text)) RETURN 1; //if we find any, return 1
          }     
     }
}
 
// this will replace all bad words with their replacements. $any is 1 if it found any
$any = BadWordFilter($wordsToFilter,1);
 


I really would also like to query a table for any words that match and then use a replacement like [censored]

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

How do I know if Filter extension is on with my webhost?

Or does it always work with PHP5?

If I cannot use it, can someone recommend a good regex to validate EMAIL addresses??

Thanks,


Debbie

so I'm running a query on a database to get address's

$address = $row['address'];

it returns  "1234 Test St"

I want to be able to sort all the records by  the street name without the numbers

Hi, I want to use an external rss in my site but the problem is that i only want to grab feeds that contain certain keywords in the title,   This is what i got so far to display the feed:

<?php

$html = "";
$url = "http://www.feedsite.com/conv-rss.asp";
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

for($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++){

	$title = $xml->channel->item[$i]->title;
	$link = $xml->channel->item[$i]->link;
	$description = $xml->channel->item[$i]->description;
	$pubDate = $xml->channel->item[$i]->pubDate;

	$html .= "<a href='$link'><h3>$title</h3></a>";
	$html .= "$description";
	$html .= "<br />$pubDate<hr />";

}
echo $html;
?>

The feed is a classified jobs but i only need the jobs listed for musicians, keywords could be: bassist, singer, drummer, musician, etc..    Thanks