PHP - Search Engines & Php Design Tips

ok so on my website which u can check out..its on www.aep.com.my .. at the first page..scroll down till u see upcoming events..click on page 2.. then click partner & sponsor button.. a page with logos will appear..so i only need to link on the DANAJAMIN logo, which ive done already. Other logos' links should be remove..but the logo remains there..please help me..

Another thing is i need the logos to appear horizontally instead of vertically..

so this is my source code

Code: [Select]

<?
if(isset($_GET[ttid])) {
$ttid = $_GET[ttid];
}

$connection=mysql_connect("$server", "$username", "$password")
or die("Could not establish connection");
mysql_select_db($database_name, $connection)
or die ("Could not select database");


$query = "select master_event.* ,
(DATE_FORMAT(event_datefrom, '%d %M %Y')) as datefrom,
(DATE_FORMAT(event_dateto, '%d %M %Y')) as dateto,
ucase(event_name) as eventname
from master_event
where master_event.event_id = '$ttid '";
$result=mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$eventname = $row['eventname'];
$eventdesc = $row['event_desc'];
$companydescription = $row['company_description'];
$eventvenue = $row['event_venue'];
$eventfee = $row['event_fee'];
$datefrom = $row['datefrom'];
$dateto = $row['dateto'];

echo "<font color='#000000'  face='arial' ><b> $eventname </b> </font> <br>";
echo "<font color='#000000'  face='arial' ><i>Date</i> : $datefrom - $dateto <br>";
echo "<i>Venue</i> : $eventvenue <br>";

$querypstype = "SELECT DISTINCT master_pstype.pstype_id,  pstype_desc FROM master_pstype
INNER JOIN master_psevent ON master_psevent.pstype_id= master_pstype.pstype_id
where master_psevent.event_id = '$ttid'
ORDER BY pstype_id";

$resultpstype=mysql_query($querypstype);
while($rowpstype = mysql_fetch_array($resultpstype)){
$pstypeid = $rowpstype['pstype_id'];
$pstypedesc = $rowpstype['pstype_desc'];
echo "<br><font color='#8B3A3A' size='1' face='georgia' ><b><i>$pstypedesc</i></b></font> <br>";

$queryps = "SELECT master_psevent.*, pstype_desc, company_name, company_link, company_description, logo_filename FROM master_psevent
LEFT JOIN master_pstype ON master_psevent.pstype_id = master_pstype.pstype_id
LEFT JOIN master_ps ON master_ps.ps_id = master_psevent.ps_id
WHERE master_psevent.event_id = '$ttid' and master_pstype.pstype_id= '$pstypeid'
ORDER BY pstype_desc,company_name ";

$resultps=mysql_query($queryps);
while($rowps = mysql_fetch_array($resultps)){
$companyname = $rowps['company_name'];
$companyid = $rowps['ps_id'];
$companylinkori = $rowps['company_link'];
$companydescription = $rowps['company_description'];

if ($companyid==33){

$companylink = "http://www.aep.com.my/index.php?view=describe";

} else {
if ($companylinkori <> "") {
//$companylink = "http://".$rowps['company_link'];
$companylink = "http://www.aep.com.my/index.php?view=".$companyid;
}
else
{
$companylink = "";
}
}


$logopath = $rowps['logo_filename'];

if ($companylink <> ""){
echo "<font color='#4A708B'  face='arial' ><a href=$companylink style=\"color:white;text-decoration: none; \" target='new'><img src=".$logo_dir."/".$logopath." width=\"15%\"></img></a>&nbsp&nbsp</font>";

}
else
{
echo "<font color='#4A708B'  face='arial' ><img src=".$logo_dir."/".$logopath." width=\"15%\"></img>&nbsp&nbsp</font>";
}
?>

<br>
<?

}
echo "<br>";

}

}



?>

so i want to create a new page that will display only my data..on that page user will only see the leave details(marked in red line) and able to print it..which code should i use..so this is my code from the main page







<div id="box" valign="top">
                   <h3>&nbsp;<strong>Leave Application Details</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp</h3>
               <br><br>
      <FORM name ="printbutton" method="post" align="left" action="index.php?view=print">
      &nbsp;<Input type = "Submit" Name = "Submit1" Class="button" VALUE = "Print Leave Details">               
                   <table width="80%" align="center" >
                  <thead>
<tr>
<th width="700px" align="left">Name</a></th>
                               
<th width="500px" align="center"></a>Application</th>

<th width="500px" align="center"></a>Date</th>
                           
<th width="500x" align="right"></a>Reason</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?
   /*echo "branch:".$branch.'<br />';
   echo "leavemonth:".$leavemonth.'<br />';
   echo "leaveyear:".$leaveyear.'<br />';*/
   //--------------------------------------------------
   if ($leavemonth =='' ||  $leaveyear =='' || $branch == '') {
      // one value missing, so don't display      
   }
   else
   {
      // start display data
      $rs = mysql_query( " call vwleavereport('$leavemonth', '$leaveyear', $branchid, 0);");
      $query="SELECT *,
            MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom) as DFMonth,
            MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateTo) as DTMonth,
            YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom) as DFYear
            FROM `tblleaveapplication`
            LEFT JOIN `tblemployee`
            ON tblleaveapplication.employeeid = tblemployee.id
            WHERE WorkGroupID = '".$branch."'            
            AND (
            (MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leavemonth." AND YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leaveyear.")
            OR
            (MONTH(tblleaveapplication.DateTo)=".$leavemonth." AND YEAR(tblleaveapplication.DateFrom)=".$leaveyear.")
            )
            ";
            
      $result = mysql_query($query);
      while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
      {
         echo '<tr>';
            echo '<td>'.$row['EmployeeName'].'</td>';
            echo '<td>'.$row['DateFrom'].'</td>';
            echo '<td>'.$row['DateTo'].'</td>';
            echo '<td>'.$row['Purpose'].'</td>';            
         echo '</tr>';         
      }
      
   }
?>

</table>

Hello friends,

i'm coding simple free script for articles but i need to know which url should be better

1- at this way

article_title_words (sperated by _ )

2- at this way

article-title-words (sperated by - )

3- at this way

article+title+words (sperated by + )

which is better for searching engines ?

thanks everybody

 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

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 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>

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

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

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 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

Hello All,

Hi All,

I currently have a ticketqueue that show's all tickets assigned to a group of people, but split into personal queues, but the way that I wrote it, means that it needs manually updating if a specific person leaves/joins the department. For example, to get the queue details, I use the following query:

Code: [Select]
$username1 = mssql_query("select id,subject,body,priority from queue where assignedto = username1";)
$username2 = mssql_query("select id,subject,body,priority from queue where assignedto = username2";)

I have repeated this code for all of the users in our team. Which seams a waste, as I have all the information on our team stored in a DB called "sysadminusers". Is there an array I could use that would look at all the usernames in the table, and then repeat the query for me?

I would also need this array to display the results on the page, currently I use the following:

Code: [Select]
while($username1_tickets = mssql_fetch_assoc($username1)){
echo $username1_tickets['id'],$username1_tickets['subject']$username1_tickets['body'],$username1_tickets['priority'];}
while($username2_tickets = mssql_fetch_assoc($username2)){
echo $username2_tickets['id'],$username2_tickets['subject']$username2_tickets['body'],$username2_tickets['priority'];}

I am just looking for some design advice and code examples that would help me tidy up my code for this page, it seams a lot of code for quite a simple page.

Thanks
Matt

Hi,

For the last few years on my website I have been using FluxBB/PunBB's login script which basically just stores a cookie with their user ID and their password hash. This is fine except if the database got leaked anyone can login as anyone else providing they have their hash.

I'm trying to be more secure about this now. Can someone explain a better process to me please?

I was thinking of storing sessions with a unique hash in an 'active_sessions' table and providing they have a cookie with that hash they are granted that session? If someone uses a different IP to what that session was created with it's deleted?

I'm new to all of this so any advice would be great. I want this to be secure.