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PHP - Database Search
Hi i am an absolute PHP/MYSQL Novice but i guess we all gotta start somewhere.
I have a table in my database with names and addresses, f_name, s_name, street, zip_code, city etc etc etc What i want to do is display a drop down of all cities in my database then click on any city in the list to display all the details of people in that city, showing all fields. So i have got this far .. Code: [Select] $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql'); $dbname = 'cities_wrdp1'; mysql_select_db($dbname); $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT City FROM PBM"; $result = mysql_query($sql); echo "<select name='City'>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<option value='" . $row['City'] . "'>" . $row['City'] . "</option>"; } echo "</select>"; This produces the nice drop down list of cities from the database ... Now on click i would like to return results similar to this Code: [Select] $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql'); $dbname = 'cities_wrdp1'; mysql_select_db($dbname); $query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM PBM"); $result = mysql_query($query); if (!$result) { $message = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n"; $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query; die($message); } echo "<br />"; echo "<table border='0'>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td>"; echo "<a href=\"" .$row['profileURL'] . "\"> <img src=\"" . $row['faviconURL'] . "\" border=0 alt=\"" . $row["Thumbnail"] . "\"> </a>"; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['f_name']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['s_name']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['number']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['street']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['zip']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['city']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['Country']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['email_address']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['fb']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['web_site']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['phone']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['land']; echo "</td><td align='center'>"; echo $row['age']; echo "</td></tr>"; } echo "</table>"; mysql_free_result($result); So my question is .. how do i make the first piece of code selectable to produce similar results to the second piece of code based on the city selected ? Thanks for any help .. and please excuse my ignorance .. Similar TutorialsI 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 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> </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. First of all, if this isn't the right place for this topic, please excuse me and may the moderators/admins move it where it should belong. Second, I'm trying to make a mysql search - Everything works, but if say, a user searches for 34 it displays all numbers that have the number 34 in them. I want the results to be exact - if a user searches for 34, to display only 34, not 334, 5034 or 3401 (like it happens now). Here's the code: Code: [Select] <?php mysql_connect ("**************", "*******","*****") or die (mysql_error()); mysql_select_db ("********"); $term = $_POST['term']; $sql = mysql_query("select * FROM countries WHERE cocode LIKE '%$term%'"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){ echo '<br/> Code: '.$row['cocode']; echo '<br/> Country: '.$row['coname']; echo '<br/><br/>'; } ?> If you have any questions, you're welcome to ask them in the thread. Thank you in advance Need some help I have 2 tables in a database and I need to search the first table and use the results from that search, to search another table, can this be done? and if it can how would you recommend that I go about it? Thanks For Your Help Guys! i have enters some data using form which submit data in sql table1 like this, Fields name in table -->> id First name Lastname Date data saved -->> 1 user 1 2011-05-10 2 user 2 2011-05-11 3 user 3 2011-05-12 now i dont want to duplicate date in database let say while inserting data using form, Firstname : ____________ Lasename : ____________ Date : ____________ (i dont want this date to b save if the date alredy exist in database, it should prompt user "Date already exist and to edit click here (this will be the link to that date which is already exist so that we can edit) " ) SAVE i user files , form.php , insert.php(so insert values in database) , so tell me what function should i use to solve my problem.... Could somebody help me with a little problem I am having, I havew spent the last two weeks trying different ways to search my database without success. What I want to do is have an input field that I can search only one column of my database. (it is a game collection) for example I want to search the game 'Medal of Honor' i type this in the search field and click submit button and it should find all the entries with that name in the database. I have tried a few online tutorials and nothing works.
here is some code that i tried.
<?php
$host = "localhost";
$user = "root";
$password ="";
$database = "csv_db";
$id = "";
$game = "";
$year = "";
$platform = "";
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
// connect to mysql database
try{
$connect = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $password, $database);
} catch (mysqli_sql_exception $ex) {
echo 'Error';
}
// get values from the form
function getPosts()
{
$posts = array();
$posts[0] = $_POST['id'];
$posts[1] = $_POST['game'];
$posts[2] = $_POST['year'];
$posts[3] = $_POST['platform'];
return $posts;
}
// Search
if(isset($_POST['search']))
{
$data = getPosts();
$search_Query = "SELECT * FROM games WHERE id = $data[0]";
$search_Result = mysqli_query($connect, $search_Query);
if($search_Result)
{
if(mysqli_num_rows($search_Result))
{
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($search_Result))
{
$id = $row['ID'];
$game = $row['GAME'];
$year = $row['YR'];
$platform = $row['PLATFORM'];
}
}else{
echo 'No Data For This Id';
}
}else{
echo 'Result Error';
}
}
// Insert
if(isset($_POST['insert']))
{
$data = getPosts();
$insert_Query = "INSERT INTO `games`(`Game`, `YR`, `PLATFORM`) VALUES ('$data[1]','$data[2]',$data[3])";
try{
$insert_Result = mysqli_query($connect, $insert_Query);
if($insert_Result)
{
if(mysqli_affected_rows($connect) > 0)
{
echo 'Data Inserted';
}else{
echo 'Data Not Inserted';
}
}
} catch (Exception $ex) {
echo 'Error Insert '.$ex->getMessage();
}
}
// Delete
if(isset($_POST['delete']))
{
$data = getPosts();
$delete_Query = "DELETE FROM `games` WHERE `ID` = $data[0]";
try{
$delete_Result = mysqli_query($connect, $delete_Query);
if($delete_Result)
{
if(mysqli_affected_rows($connect) > 0)
{
echo 'Data Deleted';
}else{
echo 'Data Not Deleted';
}
}
} catch (Exception $ex) {
echo 'Error Delete '.$ex->getMessage();
}
}
// Edit
if(isset($_POST['update']))
{
$data = getPosts();
$update_Query = "UPDATE `games` SET `GAMES`='$data[1]',`YR`='$data[2]',`PLATFORM`=$data[3] WHERE `ID` = $data[0]";
try{
$update_Result = mysqli_query($connect, $update_Query);
if($update_Result)
{
if(mysqli_affected_rows($connect) > 0)
{
echo 'Data Updated';
}else{
echo 'Data Not Updated';
}
}
} catch (Exception $ex) {
echo 'Error Update '.$ex->getMessage();
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE Html>
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP INSERT UPDATE DELETE SEARCH</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="php_insert_update_delete_search.php" method="post">
<input type="number" name="id" placeholder="ID" value="<?php echo $id;?>"><br><br>
<input type="text" name="game" placeholder="Game" value="<?php echo $game;?>"><br><br>
<input type="text" name="year" placeholder="Year" value="<?php echo $year;?>"><br><br>
<input type="number" name="platform" placeholder="Platform" value="<?php echo $platform;?>"><br><br>
<div>
<!-- Input For Add Values To Database-->
<input type="submit" name="insert" value="Add">
<!-- Input For Edit Values -->
<input type="submit" name="update" value="Update">
<!-- Input For Clear Values -->
<input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete">
<!-- Input For Find Values With The given ID -->
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Find">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
and here is the error i get.
Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 in H:\xampp\htdocs\php_insert_update_delete_search.php:41 Stack trace: #0 H:\xampp\htdocs\php_insert_update_delete_search.php(41): mysqli_query(Object(mysqli), 'SELECT * FROM g...') #1 {main} thrown in H:\xampp\htdocs\php_insert_update_delete_search.php on line 41
can anybody help me do I search engine for my database Hi all. This is the code I've been trying to execute. <?php // Get the search variable from URL $var = @$_GET['q'] ; $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable // rows to return $limit=10; // check for an empty string and display a message. if ($trimmed == "") { echo "<p>Please enter a search...</p>"; exit; } // check for a search parameter if (!isset($var)) { echo "<p>No search parameter</p>"; exit; } //connect to your database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE ** mysql_connect("localhost","*","*"); //(host, username, password) //specify database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE ** mysql_select_db("my_db") or die("Can't select database//Does not exist."); //select which database we're using // Build SQL Query $query = "select * from people \"%$trimmed%\" order by FirstName"; // 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: "" . $trimmed . "" returned zero results</p>"; echo "<p><a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=" . $trimmed . "\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up " . $trimmed . " on Google\">Click here</a> to try the search on Google</p>"; } // next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0 if (empty($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: "" . $var . ""</p>"; // begin to show results set echo "Results"; $count = 1 + $s ; // now you can display the results returned while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $title = $row["FirstName"]; echo "$count.) $title" ; $count++ ; } $currPage = (($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-$limit); print " <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\"><< Prev 10</a>  "; } // 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+$limit; echo " <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\">Next 10 >></a>"; } $a = $s + ($limit) ; if ($a > $numrows) { $a = $numrows ; } $b = $s + 1 ; echo "<p>Showing results $b to $a of $numrows</p>"; ?> As you can see, it's pretty simple and it's got very nice explanations of what everything does. But when I try it, I get this. Quote Warning: mysql_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in D:\Program Files\xampp\xampp\htdocs\search.php on line 36 Results Sorry, your search: "Ella" returned zero results Click here to try the search on Google Couldn't execute query I'm pretty much stuck. Any ideas what that error means? And yes, there is a entry with the name of Ella in the people table of the database. Help? Hey guys, Hello, so i made table with Tags row which is Text(126).. and idea is to put text like "PHP, MySQL, Forum, Blog" etc etc...
I have problem searching tags my search code:
$requestedtag = $con->real_escape_string($_GET['tag']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM images WHERE tags = '$requestedtag' ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 12";
$result = $con->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0)
{
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$image_id = $row["ID"];
$image_title = $row["Title"];
$image_url = $row["ImgURL"];
$image_tags = $row["Tags"];
echo '<div class="col-3"><div class="thumb"><a href="/image.php?id='.$image_id.'" title="'.$image_title.'"><img src="'.$image_url.'"></img></a></div></div>';
}
}
But it doesnt return anything. I think the problem is that row["Tags"]; is divided by "," from tags and i should split it somehow but i dont really know what to do...
I found this nice search database script on line but the pagination does not work can someone tell me what is wrong with it ???? so i can work with it !!! here is the full code : Code: [Select] <?php // Get the search variable from URL $var = @$_GET['q'] ; $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable // rows to return $limit=10; // check for an empty string and display a message. if ($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 ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE ** mysql_select_db("database") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using // Build SQL Query $query = "select * from the_table where 1st_field like \"%$trimmed%\" order by 1st_field"; // 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: "" . $trimmed . "" returned zero results</p>"; echo "<p><a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=" . $trimmed . "\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up " . $trimmed . " on Google\">Click here</a> to try the search on google</p>"; } // next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0 if (empty($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: "" . $var . ""</p>"; // begin to show results set echo "Results"; $count = 1 + $s ; // now you can display the results returned while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $title = $row["1st_field"]; echo "$count.) $title" ; $count++ ; } $currPage = (($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-$limit); print " <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\"><< Prev 10</a>  "; } // 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+$limit; echo " <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\">Next 10 >></a>"; } $a = $s + ($limit) ; if ($a > $numrows) { $a = $numrows ; } $b = $s + 1 ; echo "<p>Showing results $b to $a of $numrows</p>"; ?> I am using ajax live search to retrieve data from MySQL table. It works fine. However I noticed that it only returns a single result that matches the entire word instead of multiple results that match only the first couple letters. For e.g. DB Table ---------------- 1. Foot 2. Foot Path 3. Football ---------------- If I type "foo" in the ajax search field, it won't return any results. But if I type "foot", it'll return "Foot". It won't return the other two results that contain the letters "Foot". Here's my query $param_term = $_POST["term"] . '%';
$get_data = $db->prepare("SELECT name FROM table WHERE title LIKE :param");
$get_data->bindParam(':param', $param_term);
$get_data->execute();
I was wondering how can I improve the above query so that it looks for all potential results based on partial matching of letters? <?php if(isset($_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 $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>' method="post"> <input type="text" name="Search"><br> <input type="submit" name="ActivityId" value="Submit Activity Id"><br> <input type="submit" name="EventId" value="Submit Event Id"><br> <input type="submit" name="Location" value="Submit Location"><br> <input type="submit" name="BloodGroup" value="Submit Blood Group"><br> </form> </body></html> Hi frds............. I have two tables named "registration" and "participation". Registration table have some columns like "LoginId", "email","contact no.", "Name" etc.and participation table have 2 column named "LoginId" and "EventId". Now if user enters EventId, I want to display the details like email,contact no. etc. I have a code but it not works properly....... If result have more than one row it only displays the email and contact no. of last one instead of all. Plzzzzzzzzz help anyone................... ????????/ Hi I'm working on a database search for a product but the products can be narrowed down to the client will get exactly what they're after, i've got a good amount of it working and sorted but the thing i'm stuck on is that you can get the products in an alternate finish, so you can get Brass, Nickel, Stainless Steel and what i have will only work if the database only has one option within the field value in the MySQL, but if i have Brass, Nickel in the value and search Brass it won't bring it back, i'm a little bit stuck on how to fix this. Here is the code i've got for that like i say works if there is only one field in the MySQL, any help would be good. Thanks <?php include_once("mysql.php"); if (isset($_GET['Code_Of_Installation'])){ $Code_Of_Installation = $_GET['Code_Of_Installation']; $Gland_Material = $_GET['Gland_Material']; $Application_Category = $_GET['Application_Category']; $Cable_Type = $_GET['Cable_Type']; $Sealing_Configiration = $_GET['Sealing_Configiration']; $Approvals = $_GET['Approvals']; $Onshore_Offshore = $_GET['Onshore_Offshore']; $where = array(); if ($Code_Of_Installation != '') $where['Code_Of_Installation'] = $Code_Of_Installation; if ($Gland_Material != '') $where['Gland_Material'] = $Gland_Material; if ($Application_Category != '') $where['Application_Category'] = $Application_Category; if ($Cable_Type != '') $where['Cable_Type'] = $Cable_Type; if ($Sealing_Configiration != '') $where['Sealing_Configiration'] = $Sealing_Configiration; if ($Approvals != '') $where['Approvals'] = $Approvals; if ($Onshore_Offshore != '') $where['Onshore_Offshore'] = $Onshore_Offshore; $GLOBALS['r'] = smart_select('*','Search',$where); include("search-results.php"); } else { include("search-form.php"); } 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. Code: [Select] <?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>"; } } } ?> 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". Hello. I have been following a great tutorial that I found here regarding searching a database: Tutorial: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search I was very happy to find and implement this as I have been looking to understand this for some time now. When I used this and ran it from my server (doing a search of the database), I bookmarked the page; my question relates to the next step: When I return to the page via the bookmark the actual search has been saved and is displayed, not just the search form. I do not understand this. This is the search page as noted (search term is "kim"): http://bluelinedown.netau.net/new_test.php?search=Kim&body=on&title=on&desc=on&matchall=on&submit=Search! I need it to be so that each time a user goes to this search page, no prior search is displayed and it is, of course, available for a new search. Is this issue related to sessions? And if so, how? Below is the actual code I am using for this search function/page: <?php /***************************** * Simple SQL Search Tutorial by Frost * of Slunked.com ******************************/ $dbHost = 'mysql7.000webhost.com'; // localhost will be used in most cases // set these to your mysql database username and password. $dbUser = '********'; $dbPass = '*******'; $dbDatabase = 'a4542527_test1'; // 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 id, name, descrip FROM people WHERE "; // grab the search types. $types = array(); $types[] = isset($_GET['id'])?"`id` LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'":''; $types[] = isset($_GET['name'])?"`name` LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'":''; $types[] = isset($_GET['descrip'])?"`descrip` LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'":''; $types = array_filter($types, "removeEmpty"); // removes any item that was empty (not checked) if (count($types) < 1) $types[] = "`name` LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'"; // use the body as a default search if none are checked $andOr = isset($_GET['matchall'])?'AND':'OR'; $searchSQL .= implode(" {$andOr} ", $types) . " ORDER BY `name`"; // order by title. $searchResult = mysql_query($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)) { $results[] = "{$i}: {$row['id']}<br />{$row['name']}<br />{$row['descrip']}<br /><br />"; $i++; } } } } function removeEmpty($var) { return (!empty($var)); } ?> <html> <title>My Simple Search Form</title> <style type="text/css"> #error { color: red; } </style> <body> <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?> <form method="GET" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" name="searchForm"> Search For: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" /><br /> Search In:<br /> Body: <input type="checkbox" name="body" value="on" <?php echo isset($_GET['body'])?"checked":''; ?> /> | Title: <input type="checkbox" name="title" value="on" <?php echo isset($_GET['title'])?"checked":''; ?> /> | Description: <input type="checkbox" name="desc" value="on" <?php echo isset($_GET['desc'])?"checked":''; ?> /><br /> Match All Selected Fields? <input type="checkbox" name="matchall" value="on" <?php echo isset($_GET['matchall'])?"checked":''; ?><br /><br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search!" /> </form> <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Your search term: {$searchTerms} returned:<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?> </body> </html> Thank-you in advance for any help or explanation as to what to do next. ~Matty 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" Code: [Select] 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 . ' ' . $category . '</a></li>'."\n"; echo "</ul>"; } }else{ echo "<p>Enter another search term</p>"; } } } Any pointers would be good Thank you Hi. I have a database named 'Forums' with a table named 'forumlist'. The fields in the table are 'id', 'name', 'link', and 'keys'. I am trying to search the database in either the 'name' or 'keys' field and display the matches. I am getting this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ']' in C:\xampp\htdocs\search3.php on line 51 (The define fields) <html> <head> <title>My Forum Search</title> <style type="text/css"> table { background-color: #CCC } th { width: 150px; text-align: left; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Forum Search</h1> <form method="post" action="search3.php"> <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true" /> <label>Search Category: <select name="category"> <option value="keys">Keyword</option> <option value="name">Name</option> </select> </label> <label><input type="text" name="criteria" /></label> <input type="submit" /> </form> <?php if (isset($_POST['submitted])) { DEFINE ('DB_USER', 'root'); DEFINE ('DB_PSWD', '******'); DEFINE ('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); DEFINE ('DB_NAME', 'Forums'); $dbcon = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PSWD, DB_NAME); $category = $_POST['category']; $criteria = $_POST['criteria']; $query = "SELECT * FROM forumlist WHERE $category LIKE '$criteria'"; $result = mysqli_query($dbcon, $query) or die ('Error retrieving data') echo "<table>"; echo "<tr> <th>Name</th><th>Link</th> </tr>"; while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) { echo "<tr><td>"; echo $row['name']; echo "</td><td>"; echo $row['link']; echo "</td></tr>"; } echo "</table>"; } // end of main if state ?> </body> </html> Thanks in advance Hi, I'm am trying to use a search engine that search's for a username in the database and displays the information back. I have searched for a script but none of them has helped me. I have tried to use this without any luck: mysql_connect("localhost", "", "") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("dbsystem") or die(mysql_error()); $todo=$_POST['todo']; if(isset($todo) and $todo=="search"){ $search_text=$_POST['search_text']; $type=$_POST['type']; $search_text=ltrim($search_text); $search_text=rtrim($search_text); if($type<>"any"){ $query="select * from users where name = '$search_text'"; }else{ $kt=split(" ",$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 $q=substr($q,0,(strlen($q)-3)); // this will remove the last or from the string. $query="select * from users where $q "; } // end of if else based on type value echo $query; echo "<br><br>"; $nt=mysql_query($query); echo mysql_error(); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($nt)){ echo "$row[name]<br>"; } // End if form submitted }else{ echo "<form method='post' action=''><input type='hidden' name='todo' value='search' /> <input type='text' name='search_text' /><input type='submit' value='Search' /><br> <input type='radio' name='type' value='any' checked />Match any where <input type='radio' name='type' value='exact' />Exact Match </form> "; } I will be grateful if you can help with this. 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 ;... |
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