PHP - I Need Some Help With Multiple Years In My Search.

I have 3 tables. 1)state(s_id, details);   2)univer(u_id,details,s_id);   3)sub(su-id,daetails,u_id, s_id)   Now there is a problem, for ever selection of state and univer there is multiple choice of sub and they can be common in different selections. And how to store these values in databse and can call in a selection menu. so how can i solve it?
Edited by N0name, 31 May 2014 - 10:38 PM.

Hey All,
 I'm trying to add multiple word search to my site and I'm getting the following error: "mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource " I know, my search is posting because I'm getting my search terms back with the "nothing found" message I have set up. Here's what I have:
Code: [Select]
  $search = $_POST["search"]; 
  $arraySearch = explode(" ", $search);
  $arrayFields = array(0 => "title", 1 => "content");
  $countSearch = count($arraySearch);
  $a = 0;
  $b = 0;
  $query = "SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE desc LIKE '$arraySearch'";
  $countFields = count($arrayFields);
  while ($a < $countFields)
  {
    while ($b < $countSearch)
    {
      $query = $query."$arrayFields[$a] LIKE '%$arraySearch[$b]%'";
      $b++;
      if ($b < $countSearch)
      {
        $query = $query." AND ";
      }
    }
    $b = 0;
    $a++;
    if ($a < $countFields)
    {
      $query = $query.") OR (";
    }
  }
  $query = $query.")";
  $query_result = mysql_query($query);

 
  if(mysql_num_rows($query_result) < 1)
   {
    echo '<p>No matches found for "'.$search.'"</p>';
  }
  else
  {
   Print "<table border cellpadding=3>";
    while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_result))
    {
      Print "<th>Description:</th> <td>".$row['desc'].  "</td> ";
    }
 Print "</table> ";   
}

You guys are the best, thanks so much.

Hi guys,   What I'm trying to accomplish sounds like fairly easy task but due to my poor knowledge of php this turned to be quite a challenge.    What I'm trying to do is to make a php script that will search the keywords on the multiple websites. Websites that I will search are all web shops, selling spare part for home appliances and keywords used are usually original spare part codes.   When searching, script is searching these websites using their own search functions and not Google or other search engines.   Input for this script should be a CSV file containing list of keywords and URLs of the web shops that needs to be search for all these keywords.

Here is the example:
http://prntscr.com/4ebhxh   Script should perform like this:

It picks up the 1st keyword, browse to the URL1, uses its search, searches for the product, if it finds it, copy its price and write it back to original input CSV. If it doesn't find match (search results appear empty) it should write "no match found" and continue to URL2, URL3 and so on... 

When all URLs from the list are checked for the 1st keyword, scripts picks up 2nd keyword and continues on through all these keywords are not checked.   This would be a resulting CSV file after the 1st keyword is checked:
http://prntscr.com/4ebj52

After all data from the input CSV file are processed, script should prompt a msg and create a download link for that CSV file to be downloaded.

If there are multiple matches, in other words if for one keyword some of the website searches find 2 or more products, something like "More then one match" should be written in the file. Example:

http://prntscr.com/4ebkcx

Please note that non of the website is using SSL and non of them requires login in order to display the prizes.
This fact should make this script easier to build.

Its not important for this script to run fast (its better I think to run it with some timeouts because of the server glitches and bottlenecks). What is more important is to make it automatic so one can start it over the night, over the weekends.

Number of the URLs would be around 10, and list of keywords from few tens, to a few hundred.    If I can provide some additional clarification and info I'm available. 
Of course I would be willing to pay someone to help me accomplish this task.

Cheers
Dean
Edited by dolke022, 19 August 2014 - 07:54 AM.

Hi guys,
 I have a php file that will go to a site and scrape the data I need. However this site is setup to use pagination so when I try to scrape all the players names I have to do separate queries to search each page. Is there a way to find out by using code how many pages there are and query all the pages at same time?

I use  this code
Code: [Select]
<?php //first page

//turn error reporting on
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

//get data from this page
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/76.73.3.42:1716/top_players/?searchipp=50#search');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);

// Get the total player count
$rows2 = $xpath->query('//div[@class="block774"]/div');

// Get the rows from the search list
$rows = $xpath->query('//table[@class="table_lst table_lst_spn"]/tr');


for ($i=1; $i<$rows->length-1; $i++) {
    $row = $rows->item($i);

    // Get the columns for a row
    $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td');

// Get the player rank (1st column)
    echo 'Rank:'.trim($cols->item(0)->textContent).PHP_EOL;

    // Get the player name (2nd column)
    echo 'Name:'.trim($cols->item(1)->textContent).PHP_EOL;

// Get the player score (3rd column, actually 4th but number 3 is hidden)
    echo 'Sco '.trim($cols->item(3)->textContent).PHP_EOL;

echo "<br />";
}
?>





<?php //secondpage

//turn error reporting on
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

//get data from this page
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/76.73.3.42:1716/top_players/?searchipp=50&searchpge=2#search');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);

// Get the rows from the search list
$rows = $xpath->query('//table[@class="table_lst table_lst_spn"]/tr');


for ($i=1; $i<$rows->length-1; $i++) {
    $row = $rows->item($i);

    // Get the columns for a row
    $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td');

// Get the player rank (1st column)
    echo 'Rank:'.trim($cols->item(0)->textContent).PHP_EOL;

    // Get the player name (2nd column)
    echo 'Name:'.trim($cols->item(1)->textContent).PHP_EOL;

// Get the player score (3rd column)
    echo 'Sco '.trim($cols->item(3)->textContent).PHP_EOL;
echo "<br />";
}

?>
I also have to go to that website first to see how many pages there are so I can have enough queries.

I'm looking to know the best way to process a search query that has multiple words in the search:

Code: [Select]
elseif(isset($_GET['search'])){
$search=$_GET['search'];
$keyword=explode(" ",$search);

//database query
}

Should I do a while loop query the database for each keyword?

<?php

if(isset($_POST['ActivityId']))

{

require_once('database.php');

$Search=$_POST['Search'];

$query="select * from registration where Flag='A' AND Activity like '%,$Search,%'";

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query) or die('Not Connected');

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result))

{

echo "<table border='2'><tr><td> Name--".$row['Name']."</td>

<td>Contact Number--".$row['ContactNumber']."</td>

<td>Email--".$row['Email']."</td>

<td>Address--".$row['Address']."</td></tr></table>";

}

}

elseif(isset($_POST['EventId'])){

require_once('database.php');

$Search=$_POST['Search'];

$query="select * from participation where EventId ='$Search'";

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query) or die('Not Connected');

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){

$LoginId= $row['LoginId'];

echo $LoginId;}

$query="select * from registration where LoginId='$LoginId'";

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query) or die('Not Connected to Reg');

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){

echo "<table border='2'><tr><td> Name--".$row['Name']."</td>

<td>Contact Number--".$row['ContactNumber']."</td>

<td>Email--".$row['Email']."</td>

<td>Address--".$row['Address']."</td></tr></table>";

}}



elseif(isset($_POST['Location']))

{

require_once('database.php');

$Search=$_POST['Search'];

$query="select * from registration where Flag='A' AND Address like '%$Search%'";

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query) or die('Not Connected');

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result))

{

echo "<table border='2'><tr><td> Name--".$row['Name']."</td>

<td>Contact Number--".$row['ContactNumber']."</td>

<td>Email--".$row['Email']."</td>

<td>Address--".$row['Address']."</td></tr></table>";

}

}



elseif(isset($_POST['BloodGroup']))

{

require_once('database.php');

$Search=$_POST['Search'];

$query="select * from registration where Flag='A' AND BloodGroup ='$Search'";

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query) or die('Not Connected');

while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result))

{

echo "<table border='2'><tr><td> Name--".$row['Name']."</td>

<td>Contact Number--".$row['ContactNumber']."</td>

<td>Email--".$row['Email']."</td>

<td>Address--".$row['Address']."</td></tr></table>";

}

}

?>

<html><body><form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method="post">

<input type="text" name="Search"><br>

<input type="submit" name="ActivityId" value="Submit Activity Id"><br>

<input type="submit" name="EventId" value="Submit Event Id"><br>

<input type="submit" name="Location" value="Submit Location"><br>

<input type="submit" name="BloodGroup" value="Submit Blood Group"><br>



</form>

</body></html>




Hi frds.............
I have two tables named "registration" and "participation". Registration table have some columns like "LoginId", "email","contact no.", "Name" etc.and participation table have 2 column named "LoginId" and "EventId".
Now if user enters EventId, I want to display the details like email,contact no. etc.
I have a code but it not works properly.......
If result have more than one row it only displays the email and contact no. of last one instead of all.
Plzzzzzzzzz help anyone...................
????????/

Hi,
So I'm trying to make a car rental project, and I need to show cars of a specific type, available in a specific period.
I'm currently using this query:
SELECT * FROM car, reservations
WHERE car.car_id = reservations.car
AND car.type = 1 AND reservations.reserved_from >= "2011-12-22"
AND reservations.reserved_to <= "2012-12-20";

So this returns all the cars of the type 1 reserved in 2011-12-22 - 2012-12-20 period.
So know that I know which cars are unavailable, how would you go ahead and pick out what's left?

After a few days of searching and running across a problem what is almost like mine on these forums (cant seem to find the link now) where the person was looking to search a database using checkboxes.

What I am trying to do is use a list of checkboxes (http://www.animeseason.com/anime-list/categories/) exactly like this link and search my table which has the genres as columns.

I am new to PHP and don't really have a starting point. I have taken a bunch of examples and came up with this.

My HTML form with a list of all my checkboxes.
Code: [Select]
<form method="post" ACTION = "php/do_search.php">
                           <ul class="cat_col">
                               <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="1"> <a href="#Action">Action</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="2"> <a href="#Adventure">Adventure</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="3"> <a href="#Comedy">Comedy</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="4"> <a href="#Demons">Demons</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="5"> <a href="#Drama">Drama</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="6"> <a href="#Ecchi">Ecchi</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="7"> <a href="#Fantasy">Fantasy</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="8"> <a href="#Harem">Harem</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="9"> <a href="#Horror">Horror</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="10"> <a href="#Magic">Magic</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="11"> <a href="#Martial Arts">Martial Arts</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="12"> <a href="#Mecha">Mecha</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="13"> <a href="#Music">Music</a></li>
                           </ul>
                            <ul class="cat_col">
                               <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="14"> <a href="#Mystery">Mystery</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="15"> <a href="#Ninja">Ninja</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="16"> <a href="#Parody">Parody</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="17"> <a href="#Psychological">Psychological</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="18"> <a href="#Reverse Harem">Reverse Harem</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="19"> <a href="#Romance">Romance</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="20"> <a href="#Samurai">Samurai</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="21"> <a href="#School Life">School Life</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="22"> <a href="#Science Fiction">Science Fiction</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="23"> <a href="#Seinen">Seinen</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="24"> <a href="#Shoujo">Shoujo</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="25"> <a href="#Shounen">Shounen</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="26"> <a href="#Slapstick">Slapstick</a></li>
                           </ul>
                            <ul class="cat_col">
                               <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="27"> <a href="#Slice of Life">Slice of Life</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="28"> <a href="#Sports">Sports</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="29"> <a href="#Supernatural">Supernatural</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="30"> <a href="#Thriller">Thriller</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="31"> <a href="#Tragedy">Tragedy</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="32"> <a href="#Vampire">Vampire</a></li>
                           </ul>
                           <ul class="cat_col">
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="33"> <a href="#Movie">Movie</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="34"> <a href="#OVA">OVA</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="35"> <a href="#Top Rated">Top Rated</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="36"> <a href="#Currently Airing">Currently Airing</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="37"> <a href="#Ended">Ended</a></li>
                                <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="38"> <a href="#Ongoing">Ongoing</a></li>
                           </ul>
                      <div id="submit_btn_pos">
                      <input type="submit" name="search" value="Lets Make Magic" class="submit_btn">
                            <>
                        </form>

My PHP script that right now seems to do nothing.

Code: [Select]
<?php
//if we got something through $_POST
if (isset($_POST['cat_check'])) {
    $con = mysql_connect("localhost","USERNAME","PASSWORD") or die("Connection error");
mysql_select_db("DATABASENAME")or die("database doesn't exist");

// sanitize user input
$cleanData = array();
foreach($_POST['cat_check'] as $_comp) {
    //$cleanData = mysql_real_escape_query($_comp);
}

// Build query
  $compStr = implode("'), ('", $cleanData);
  $sql = "SELECT anime_name WHERE $_comp='1'";
  
}
?>
My database has a layout of "Name of show, (every genere listed above)".

Thanks for any help.

Im having problems with this code in my search button script. I get the following error:  Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource

Here's the code I use on my search form.

Code: [Select]
<form method="post" action="srch_all.php"><input type=text name='search' size=15 maxlength=255><br><input type=submit></form>

and here's the code I'm using to perform the search query:

Code: [Select]
if ($search)   // perform search only if a string was entered.
   {
    mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Problem connecting to Database");

    $srch="%".mysql_real_escape_string($search)."%";

    $query = "select * from database WHERE column1 LIKE '$srch' or column2 LIKE '$srch' or column3 LIKE '$srch' or column4 LIKE '$srch' ORDER BY column1, column2 DESC, column3 ASC";

 $result = mysql_db_query("database_name", $query);
    if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0) {
        print "<h2>Your search returned 0 Results</h2>";
   }

    else if  ($result)
    {

<restult data stuff here>..

 Cheers

ugh... I'm a total PHP nub and I'm having trouble with:

Code: [Select]
$search_by = $_POST['search_by'];
$search = $_post['search'];

$dbc = mysqli_connect('xx', 'artofwarsomerset', 'xx', 'artofwarsomerset') or die ('Error connecting to MySQL server');

$query = "SELECT * FROM players WHERE '$search_by' = '$search' ";
$result = mysqli_query($dbc,$query)
  or die("Error: ".mysqli_error($dbc));

echo "<table><tr><td>Player</td><td>city</td><td>alliance</td><td>x</td><td>y</td><td>other</td><td>porters</td><td>conscripts</td><td>Spies</td><td>HBD</td><td>Minos</td><td>LBM</td><td>SSD</td><td>BD</td><td>AT</td><td>Giants</td><td>Mirrors</td><td>Fangs</td><td>ogres</td><td>banshee</td></tr>" ;

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array ($result)) {
echo '<tr><td> $row['player'] </td>';
echo '<td> . $row['city']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['alliance']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['x']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['y']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['other']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['porter']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['cons']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['spy']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['hbd']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['mino']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['lbm']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['ssd']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['bd']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['at']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['giant']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['fm']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['ft']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['ogre']</td>';
echo '<td> . $row['banshee']</td></tr></table>';  }
 ?>
Error shows up on line 35 but I'm not sure what I've done... Also, the xx's on my dbc statement were on purpose. Current error is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/content/64/4940664/html/artofwar/browse.php on line 35, I can't figure out where the hell it wants a ;...

I have a multiple choice search page which asks visitors to select one or more choices before rendering the search results. It only works in items 1+2 are selected, or 1+2+3, or 1+2+3+4, or 1+2+3+4, etc...

I want to make it so that any combination of choices work. Example: Items 1+6 or 2+3+5 or 1+4+6 etc...

I have four hours to fix it before my client shows up and need help BADLY.

Anyone out there who can help? Whoever can help me... you are the best and I will have a special prayer for you tonight.

Here is the coding:

<?php } else{
if(!empty($_GET['latt']) && !empty($_GET['long']))
{

$condition="SELECT ( 3959 * acos( cos( radians(  '".$_GET['latt']."' ) ) * cos( radians( latitude ) ) * cos( radians( longitude ) - radians(  '".$_GET['long']."' ) ) + sin( radians( '".$_GET['latt']."' ) ) * sin( radians( latitude ) ) ) ) as distance,id,membership FROM notary_members ";

   if(!empty($_GET['s']))
   {
      $a=" where and";
   }
   else
   {
      $a=" where";
   }
   if($_GET['edoc']!='')
   {
      $condition.=$a." edoc= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['esign']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and esign= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=$a." esign= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['laserprinter']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and laserprinter= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" laserprinter= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['dualtray']!='')
   {
      if( $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and dualtray= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" dualtray= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['error_in']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and error_in= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" error_in= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['bg_checked']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and bg_checked= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" bg_checked= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['home_insp']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and home_insp= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" home_insp= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['fingerprint']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and fingerprint= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" fingerprint= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['hosp_signing']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and hosp_signing= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" hosp_signing= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['jail_signing']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and jail_signing= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" jail_signing= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['im_docs']!='')
   {
      if($_GET['jail_signing']!='' || $_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='')
         $condition.=" and im_docs= 'yes'";
      else
         $condition.=" im_docs= 'yes'";
   }
   if($_GET['jail_signing']!='' || $_GET['hosp_signing']!='' || $_GET['fingerprint']!='' || $_GET['home_insp']!='' || $_GET['bg_checked']!='' || $_GET['error_in']!='' || $_GET['dualtray']!='' || $_GET['laserprinter']!='' || $_GET['esign']!='' || $_GET['edoc']!='' || $_GET['im_docs']!='')
   {
    $condition.=" and status=1 order by distance asc";
    }
    else
    {
    $condition.=$a." status=1 order by distance asc";
    }

   $sql=mysql_query($condition);
   $num=mysql_num_rows($sql);
   $getmile=explode(' ',$_GET['miles']);
   
        $c=0;
        while($getidres=mysql_fetch_array($sql))
      {
          if($getidres['distance']<=$getmile[0])
        {
            if($getidres['membership']=='premium')
            {
            $prefirst[$getidres['id']]=$getidres['distance'];
            $c++;
            }
            else
            {
            $basicfirst[$getidres['id']]=$getidres['distance'];
             $c++;
            }
        }
        }
      
      if(!empty($sql))
     {
      
          if($c!=0)
         {
            if(!empty($prefirst) || !empty($basicfirst))
            { ?>

I have a search set up to search a table for the text entered in a textbox, I have two columns in the table, one with the first name of people, and the second with their last names, I am wondering how I can search both, so for instance:

I type in the search field: Roger Smith

in the database it would look like:

First_name-----|-----Last_name
-------------------|-------------------
Roger------------|-------Smith

my current query is:

Code: [Select]
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE fname LIKE '%$find%' OR lname LIKE '%$find%'");
But if I type both parts of the name it doesn't return anything. works fine if I just search for "Roger" OR "Smith".

Not sure if this topic goes in here, it is related to PHP but also MySql, so if i'm on the wrong board sorry!

What i'm trying to do is search for a keyword in 5 different tables and return the keyword ID from the table that its in

The tables i'm trying to search are as follow

location
state
county
region
continent

The "location" table has all the locations i.e cities and each row has the following columns:
id | continent_id | country_id | state_id | region_id | city_name

The "state" table is set the the following:
id | name

"county" table :
id | name

"region" table:
id | region

and "continent" table
 id | name

The way it works is the can search for any city or state or county or region or continent and ideally it should look into the five different tables and return the id of that table. So if the use searches for United States it will look for United States in all five tables, obviously it would find it in the "country" table so it should return that "id". The results are returned in "json format"

Below is the code i have:

Code: [Select]
<?
$input = $_GET['keyword'];
$data = array();

/*

In this query i'm attempting to search in all databases, but i'm not sure if i'm doing this right.
I'm not getting any results so i know something is wrong just don't know how to write it.

*/

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM locations JOIN states ON states.id = locations.state_id JOIN countries ON countries.id=locations.country_id JOIN regions ON regions.region_id = locations.region_id JOIN continents ON continents.id=locations.continent_id WHERE name LIKE '$input%' OR state LIKE '$input%' OR region LIKE '$input%' OR country LIKE '$input%' OR continent LIKE '$input%'") or die(mysql_error());

/*

Here the values are added to to the $json array. The "value" should be the "id" from the table that the keyword matched. The 'name'
Should be the name of the actual keyword. Again if they search for United States the "id" will come from the "countries" table and the "value"
would come from the "countries" table as the name

*/

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
$json = array();
$json['value'] = $row['id'];
$json['name'] = $row['name'];
$data[] = $json;
}

header("Content-type: application/json");

echo json_encode($data);
?>


Any help would he be appreciated, i don't want people to do it for me, but rather just guide me a little bit.

Hello everyone,

Very new to coding - enjoying it but struggling! I think I'm trying to do something pretty common but I seem to have come up against a complete wall now and after hours/days searching the internet and reading books I'm completely stuck! I'm  trying to write some code to search a MySQL database of products, then display the results. For some search results there will be lots of products so I want to display 10 products on the first page then allow visitors to go to the next page to see another 10, and so on - a type of pagination, as they should then be able to click back to see the last page etc.
I've got to the point of being able to display the first 10 search results, but I can't figure out at all how to create some kind of page scrolling/pagination system.
Please, does anybody have any ideas??
I've attached my code, I hope this is the correct way of doing things here.
Many thanks for your time!

The PHP search code...
Code: [Select]

<?php
//opens connection to mysql server
$dbc = mysql_connect('localhost');
if (!$dbc) {
die('Not connected :' . mysql_error());
}
echo "Connected to mysql database<br />";
//select database
$db_selected = mysql_select_db("NAME_OF_DATABASE", $dbc);
if (!$db_selected)
{
die ("Cannot connect :" . mysql_error());
}
echo "Connected to database<br /><hr />";
echo "Here are your results";

$term = $_POST['term'];
$category = $_POST['category'];
$brand = $_POST['brand_name'];
 
  
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products where product_name like '%$term%' AND category_name like '%$category%' AND brand_name like '%$brand%' LIMIT 0, 10");
 
{ 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
echo "<table border='1' width='100%'> ";
echo "<tr>"; 
echo "<td style='vertical-align:top' width='25%'>" . '<img src="', $row['image_url'], '" alt="', $row['product_name'], '"  width="100" height="100" />' . "</td>";
echo "<td style='vertical-align:top' width='50%'>" . $row['product_name'];
echo "<br />";
echo  "<span style='font-size: 10px'>" . $row['description'] . "</span>" . "</td>"; 
echo "<td style='vertical-align:top' width='25%'>" . $row['price'];
echo "<br />";
echo "<br />";
echo "<hr />";
echo "$row['merchant_name'] </td>";
echo "</tr>";
    }
echo "</table>"; 
}
?>

I have a simple (1 table, 14 fields) database. I'm using 9 separate search boxes from my search page :
http://www.cinemaposter.com/database.html
There are currently 162 entries. Hitting "submit" throws them all out, same with valid input into any box, with the exception of "country" - example  : entering "F" gives 20results; "PL" gives 34 results.
Here's my code (to simplify, I only went down to the 4th box ('country' - the last and only one giving correct results).  I'm one sorry newbie.... please help !
Here's the code :
------------------

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <title>Search Results</title>
   <meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 6.5">
   <style type="text/css">
td
{
   color: #000000;
   font-family: arial;
   font-size: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$link = mysql_connect("xxxx", "xxxx", "xxxx") or die("Could not connect");
///print "Connected successfully<BR>";
mysql_select_db("xxxx") or die("Could not select database");


{
$Author = $_POST['Author'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Author LIKE '%$Author%'";
}

{
$Title = $_POST['Title'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Title LIKE '%$Title%'";
}

{
$Originaltitle =$_POST['Originalitle'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Originaltitle LIKE '%$Originaltitle%'";
}

{
$Country =$_POST['Country'];
$sql="SELECT * FROM posters WHERE Country LIKE '%$Country%'";
}


$result = mysql_query ($sql) or die("Query failed : " . mysql_error());
$numrs = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($numrs > 0){

if ($numrs==1){
   print ("<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b>There is $numrs record in our database.</B> <BR><BR>");
   }elseif($numrs>1){
   print ("<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b>There are $numrs records in our database. </B><BR><BR>");//Apparently, he wan't to be able to search again...</b><form method \"POST\" action=\"$PHP_SELF\">Search Again:");
   }
   
   
   
   
  echo("<a href='javascript:history.go(-1)'>Go Back</a></p>");
  print("<P align=center>Click on the column heading links to sort the results.<br><br />");   
   
print ("<TABLE CELLPADDING=\"1\" CELLSPACING=\"2\" BORDER=\"0\">\n");
PRINT ("<TR BGCOLOR=\"#FFFF77\">
<TD COLSPAN=2><P align=center>Author</td>
<TD><P align=center>Title</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Original Title</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Country</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Director</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Cast</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Year</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Original Year</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Photo</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Producer</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Circulation</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Size</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Print type</TD>
<TD><P align=center>Remarks</TD></TR>");

$z=1;
      while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      
         $num=$z++;
         //Note here that I'm assigning the found objects new names (indicated by lowercase) to that php wont get confused.....
         $auth=$line['Author'];
         $title=$line['Title'];
         $originaltitle=$line['Originaltitle'];
         $country=$line['Country'];
         $director=$line['Director'];
         $cast=$line['Cast'];
         $year=$line['Year'];
         $originalyear=$line['Originalyear'];
         $producer=$line['Producer'];
         $circ=$line['Circulation'];
         $size=$line['Size'];
         $print=$line['Print'];
         $remarks=$line['Remarks'];
         $pict=$line['Picture'];


         //Set the formatting
         $bgcolor = ($i++ & 1) ? '#d3d3d3' : '#c0c0c0';
         
                           
      PRINT("<TR BGCOLOR=$bgcolor>
      <TD>$num.</TD>
      <TD>$auth</td>
      <TD>$title</TD>
      <TD>$originaltitle</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$country</TD>
      <TD>$director</TD>
      <TD>$cast</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$year</TD>
      <TD><P align=center>$originalyear</TD><TD>");
// This is the test to find do we have a picture
if ($pict) {
// If there is a picture, display it:
print ("<P align=center><a href='zdjecie.php?zdj= $pict&autor=$auth&opis=$title&orig=$originaltitle&rok=$year' target='_blank'>
<img src=$pict height=\"150\"></a>");
} else {

// We don't have a picture, so we print some text instead:
print ("<P align=center>no picture available");
}

print ("</TD><TD>$producer</TD>
<TD><P align=center>$circ</TD>
<TD>$size</TD>
<TD>$print</TD>
<TD>$remarks</TD></TR>");
            
         }
      PRINT("</TABLE><BR><font face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">Search Again</a></font>");
   }else {
   print ("<font face=\"Arial\">Sorry, there were no results for your search. <a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">Please try again</a></font>");
   }
//mysql_close($link);
?>                                                                     
</body>
</html>