PHP - Php Search Query

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.
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<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.

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<?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.

Hi All,

Just a couple of things with my site search, I am having trouble getting the search results to pickup any and all keywords. For example, if keywords for a search result are listed in the keywords column of my db as 'one, two, three' a search query for 'one two' is fine but a search for 'one three' will not display the search result. Instead of treating the keywords seperately it is treating all keywords as a whole phrase.

How can I make the search results pickup any keyword regardless of order.

Secondly I'm having trouble getting the search results to display by keyword relevance, any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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function search()
{
parent::Controller();
$this->load->model('Templating');
$this->load->model('Company');
}

function index()
{
$this->load->view('search');
}
function search_redirect()
{
if ($_POST['keyword'] == '') $_POST['keyword'] = 'Keyword';
redirect('search/showlist/'.
urlencode(underscore($_POST['location'])).'/'.
urlencode(underscore($_POST['category'])).'/'.
urlencode(underscore($_POST['keyword'])));
}
function showlist($location = 'any', $category = 'any', $keyword = 'keyword',  $offset = '0')
{
/* get results */

$data['companies'] = $this->Company->search($keyword, $category, $location, $offset, $name);
/* paginate results */
$row = $data['companies']->row();

if($keyword == 'keyword' and $category=='any' ) {
$data['categoryList'] = $this->buildCategoryList($location);
}
elseif(isset($row->categoryId)) {
$categoryId = $row->categoryId;
$data['linkList'] = $this->buildRefineList($categoryId);
}
$this->load->library('pagination');
$config['base_url']    = site_url().'search/showlist/'.$location.'/'.$category.'/'.$keyword.'/';
$config['total_rows']  = $this->Company->total_companies;
$config['per_page']    = $this->Company->per_page;
$config['num_links']   = 3;
$config['uri_segment'] = $this->uri->total_segments();
$this->pagination->initialize($config);

$data['pagination'] = $this->pagination->create_links();
$data['logged_in'] = $this->session->userdata('logged_in');
$data['company_id'] = $this->session->userdata('company_id');
$data['search_category'] = $category;
$data['search_location'] = $location;
if ($this->session->userdata('admin') != ''){
$data['admin'] = $this->session->userdata('admin');
}

/* initialise template settings */
$center = 'center/list_companies';
$this->load->vars($data);
$this->Templating->show($center);
}

I'm trying to build a search function that will search all columns in a table. Here is what I've got:

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if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
$q = "SELECT * FROM children ";

if(isset($_POST['query'])) {
$q .= "WHERE ";

$all = "SELECT * FROM children WHERE 1";
$r_all = mysqli_query($dbc, $all);

while ($field = $r_all->fetch_field()) { // Get field headers for building query
$f_name = "{$field->name} LIKE {$_POST['query']},:"; // Build query with search string
$fn = explode(":",$f_name); // Need to convert $f_name to an array but this does not convert it to a single array but multiple arrays

$q .= implode("OR", $fn); // Need to insert OR for the db query

} // End while ($field = $r_all->fetch_field())

} // End if(isset($_POST['query']))

} // End if (isset($_POST['submitted']))

The explode function is what is not working for me. It gives me this (sam is the search string I entered into the form):

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Array ( [0] => child_id LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => first_name LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => second_name LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => last_name1 LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => last_name2 LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => gender LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => dob LIKE sam, [1] => )

so instead of getting one array with each string being a value I get multiple arrays. Any ideas?

hi all,
in mysql, how can i extract 100 words before and 100 words after my search key?
example:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla est nibh, mattis eu mattis id, pulvinar eu augue. Duis ut sem nisi. Sed id ante sed orci vestibulum lacinia ac id nibh. Donec cursus, elit eget auctor semper, ipsum eros laoreet quam, nec ullamcorper"

vestibulum is my search key

On my search result page, I wanted to search for "Nintendo DS Lite - Pink"

I used following code:

Ex:
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$search_text = "Nintendo DS Lite Pink";

$kt=split(" ",$search_text);//Breaking the string to array of words

// Now let us generate the sql
while(list($key,$val)=each($kt))
{
if($val<>" " and strlen($val) > 0)
{
$q .= " name like '%$val%' or ";
}
}// end of while

//Remove the last 'OR'
$q=substr($q,0,(strlen($q)-3));



Than the $q would be:
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SELECT * FROM `products`
WHERE 
name like '%Nintendo%' or 
name like '%DS%' or 
name like '%Lite%' or 
name like '%Pink%'


And i am getting Mysql Output given below:


1) Activity Meter - DS.
2) Nintendo DS Red.
3) Nintendo DS Lite Pink.
4) Nintendo DS Lite Turquoise.

But the third result is most accurate/relevant then first two result.

Please help me out to get the most accurate row first then the relevant rows as per their relevancy with search term "$search_text"

Many Thanks  in Advance.

Can someone please double check my search query to make sure it is the minimum and most efficient coding. My goal is an exact match search of field1 from my database table and list field1, field2, field3, field4 and field5 if the part number is in the database or no results if it is not. The query works as is but I have a feeling it could be done more efficiently or professionally and minimum work for my poor little server. Thanks in advance.
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<?php
//connect to the database
include("./databaseconnect.php");
//get query
$q=$_GET['q'];
//convert query to uppercase & remove all spaces and special charactars
$q=strtoupper(preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/","",$q));
//if blank query
if ($q == "")
{
echo "You did not enter a search term";
} else {
//exact match only query
$query  = "SELECT * FROM ".$dbtable." WHERE field1 like \"$q\"";
$result = mysql_query($query);
//if query returns no results
if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0)
{  
echo "<span class=\"noresults\">There were no results for your search</span>";
//display database results
} else {
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo "<span class=\'results\'>SEARCH RESULTS</span><br />
<span class=\'list\'>Part Number: ".$row['field1']."<br />
Manufacturer: ".$row['field2']."<br />
Cost per unit: ".$row['field3']."<br />
Warehouse Location: ".$row['field4']."<br />
Quantity Available: ".$row['field5']."<br />
Notes: ".$row['field6']."<br />
</span>";
}
}
}
?>

Hello,

I have a search engine on my website that uses the following code:
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//SQL FOR *SEARCH.PHP

$table = "videos";
  $search = $_GET['q'];
  // explode search words into an array
  $arraySearch = explode(" ", $_GET['q']);
  // table fields to search
  $arrayFields = array(0 => "title", 1 => "titletext", 2 => "tags", 3 => "originaltitle", 4 => "url");
  $countSearch = count($arraySearch);
  $a = 0;
  $b = 0;
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$table."  WHERE status ='1' AND (";
  $countFields = count($arrayFields);
  while ($a < $countFields)
  {
    while ($b < $countSearch)
    {
      $sql = $sql."$arrayFields[$a] LIKE '%$arraySearch[$b]%'";
      $b++;
      if ($b < $countSearch)
      {
        $sql = $sql." AND ";
      }
    }
    $b = 0;
    $a++;
    if ($a < $countFields)
    {
      $sql = $sql.") OR (";
    }
  }
  $sql = $sql.") ORDER BY (videos.up-videos.down) DESC
LIMIT $start, $limit";

$result = mysql_query($sql);


My problem is that the SQL Query includes even videos that have STATUS='0' .. I only want the STATUS='1' to be shown.. How come? Thanks for help

Hi guys and girls,

I am having trouble finding out wether the query made no matches rather than just displaying the matches.

So what I would want is for the search term to look at the database, and if there's not matches then say, "No match for your search term"

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function search_applications() {

global $dbc;

echo '<form method="post" action="" id="search">'. "\n";
echo '<label for="search_applications">Search for an application</label>'. "\n";
echo '<input type="text" name="search_applications" />'. "\n";
echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" />'. "\n";
echo '</form>'. "\n";


if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

$search_applications = $_POST['search_applications'];


if ($search_applications == "")
 {
 echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; 
 }

//if (preg_match("/\b$search_applications\b/i")){
if(preg_match("/^[  a-zA-Z]+/", $search_applications)){


//for testing the variables
//echo $search_applications;

$sql="SELECT title, category, content FROM distributors_content WHERE  title LIKE '%" . $search_applications . "%' OR category LIKE '%" . $search_applications  ."%' OR content LIKE '%" . $search_applications  ."%'";
$result=mysqli_query($dbc, $sql);
//-create  while loop and loop through result set
while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
          $title  =$row['title'];
       $category=$row['category'];
       $content=$row['content'];
       
//-display the result of the array
echo "<ul>\n";
echo '<li> <a href="index.php?article='.$row['title'].'&&page=application" title=""> '.$title . ' ' . $category .  '</a></li>'."\n";
echo "</ul>";
}
}else{

echo "<p>Enter another search term</p>";
}
}
}

Any pointers would be good

Thank you

I want to have a search product feature, but I would like members to be able to search multiple fields in one go i.e.  product_code, Product_name in one MySQL query.

The thing is, members have to be logged on, so the query must also only show results relating to that specific member, via the session[member_ID], my current query for listing products for that specific member is :

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$sql = "SELECT productId, productCode, image, name, price, stock_level FROM product_inventory WHERE memberr_ID = '" . $_SESSION['SESS_mem_ID'] . ";
How would I change the above into a search query to search for productcode, productname and still only show results beloging to this member using the session data ? 

all help appreciated

I'm hoping this is a simple question.
When I use the code below, my twitter search query appears in BOLD within the returned results. I would like to style the search term differently. I can use CSS to style the avatar, author, and other information within the returned results etc, but I can't figure out how to style the search term ($q) within the returned twitter information. Any help would be much appreciated.

<?php

class twitter_class
{    
    function twitter_class()
    {
        $this->realNamePattern = '/\((.*?)\)/';
        $this->searchURL = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=';
        
        $this->intervalNames   = array('second', 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year');
        $this->intervalSeconds = array( 1,        60,       3600,   86400, 604800, 2630880, 31570560);
        
        $this->badWords = array('somebadword', 'anotherbadword');
    }

    function getTweets($q, $limit=15)
    {
        $output = '';

        // get the search result
        $ch= curl_init($this->searchURL . urlencode($q));

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
        $response = curl_exec($ch);

        if ($response !== FALSE)
        {
            $xml = simplexml_load_string($response);
    
            $output = '';
            $tweets = 0;
            
            for($i=0; $i<count($xml->entry); $i++)
            {
                $crtEntry = $xml->entry[$i];
                $account  = $crtEntry->author->uri;
                $image    = $crtEntry->link[1]->attributes()->href;
                $tweet    = $crtEntry->content;
    
                // skip tweets containing banned words
                $foundBadWord = false;
                foreach ($this->badWords as $badWord)
                {
                    if(stristr($tweet, $badWord) !== FALSE)
                    {
                        $foundBadWord = true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                
                $tweet = str_replace('<a href=', '<a target="_blank" href=', $tweet);
                
                // skip this tweet containing a banned word
                if ($foundBadWord)
                    continue;

                // don't process any more tweets if at the limit
                if ($tweets==$limit)
                    break;
                $tweets++;
    
                // name is in this format "acountname (Real Name)"
                preg_match($this->realNamePattern, $crtEntry->author->name, $matches);
                $name = $matches[1];
    
                // get the time passed between now and the time of tweet, don't allow for negative
                // (future) values that may have occured if server time is wrong
                $time = 'just now';
                $secondsPassed = time() - strtotime($crtEntry->published);

                if ($secondsPassed>0)
                {
                    // see what interval are we in
                    for($j = count($this->intervalSeconds)-1; ($j >= 0); $j--)
                    {
                        $crtIntervalName = $this->intervalNames[$j];
                        $crtInterval = $this->intervalSeconds[$j];
                            
                        if ($secondsPassed >= $crtInterval)
                        {
                            $value = floor($secondsPassed / $crtInterval);
                            if ($value > 1)
                                $crtIntervalName .= 's';
                                
                            $time = $value . ' ' . $crtIntervalName . ' ago';
                            
                            break; 
                        }
                    }
                }
                
                $output .= '
                <div class="tweet">
                    <div class="avatar">
                        <a href="' . $account . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $image .'"></a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="message">
                        <span class="author"><a href="' . $account . '"  target="_blank">' . $name . '</a></span>: ' . 
                        $tweet . 
                        '<span class="time"> - ' . $time . '</span>
                    </div>
                </div>';
            }
        }
        else
            $output = '<div class="tweet"><span class="error">' . curl_error($ch) . '</span></div>';
        
        curl_close($ch);
        return $output;
    }
}

?>


The HTML I have been using with this code is here
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<!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>
<title>Twitter</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
  require('twitter.class.php');
  $twitter = new twitter_class();
  echo $twitter->getTweets('example search term', 10);
?>
</body>
</html>
This is not my code. It is from a tutorial that can be accessed from here >> http://www.richnetapps.com/php-twitter-search-parser/

 

This is what I was using for including an url with parameter

<?php
if ($fh = fopen('http://www.domain.com/search.php?query=test', 'r') ) {
    fpassthru($fh);
    fclose($fh);
}
?>

It's not working anymore after the hosting company did an upgrade.

By the way. Alle scripts are accessible locally.

What is my alternative??
 

Say a user puts in a support request, and for every request it generates a unqiue string, and enters it into the database.

Ok, now say there is a text field, when the user enters their unique string and it finds a match, it displays the data along with it.

How can I accomplish this? Im kind of new to mysql, but I know basic SQL.

Would be great if somebody could point me in the right direction!

Thanks

I have some data in a table and some of it is Artist names stored as "Last, First"
I need to be able to have the script search weather or not someone types "last, first" or "first last".
Any ideas?

Here's my code:

<html>
<head>
<title>search script</title>
</head>
<body>

<form name="form" action="search.php" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="q" />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search" />
</form>

<?php

  // Get the search variable from URL

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

// rows to return
$limit=100; 

// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
  {
  echo "<p>Please enter a search...</p>";
  exit;
  }

// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
  {
  echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
  exit;
  }

//connect to your database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE **
mysql_connect("localhost","username","password"); //(host, username, password)

//specify database
mysql_select_db("mydb") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using

// Build SQL Query  
$query = "select * from songs where Title like \"%$trimmed%\" or Artist like \"%$trimmed%\"  
  order by Title"; // EDIT HERE and specify your table and field names for the SQL query

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

// If we have no results, offer a google search as an alternative

if ($numrows == 0)
  {
  echo "<h4>Results</h4>";
  echo "<p>Sorry, your search: &quot;" . $trimmed . "&quot; returned zero results</p>";
  }

// 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");

// display what the person searched for
echo "<p>You searched for: &quot;" . $var . "&quot;</p>";

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

// now you can display the results returned
echo "<table border=1>";
  while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  $title = $row["Title"];
  $artist = $row["Artist"];
  $number = $row["Number"];

  echo "<tr><td>$count.)</td><td>$title</td><td>$artist</td><td>$number</td></tr>" ;
  $count++ ;
  }

  echo "</table>";
$currPage = (($s/$limit) + 1);

//break before paging
  echo "<br />";

  // next we need to do the links to other results
  if ($s>=1) { // bypass PREV link if s is 0
  $prevs=($s-$limit);
  print "&nbsp;<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\">&lt;&lt; 
  Prev 10</a>&nbsp&nbsp;";
  }

// calculate number of pages needing links
  $pages=intval($numrows/$limit);

// $pages now contains int of pages needed unless there is a remainder from division

  if ($numrows%$limit) {
  // has remainder so add one page
  $pages++;
  }

// check to see if last page
  if (!((($s+$limit)/$limit)==$pages) && $pages!=1) {

  // not last page so give NEXT link
  $news=$s+$limit;

  echo "&nbsp;<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\">Next 20 &gt;&gt;</a>";
  }

$a = $s + ($limit) ;
  if ($a > $numrows) { $a = $numrows ; }
  $b = $s + 1 ;
  echo "<p>Showing results $b to $a of $numrows</p>";
  
?>

</body>
</html>

 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