PHP - Masking Php Results?

Okay, after successfully getting a form to input data to a MySQL database, I'm now trying to get the data back out by searching.

Search form code:

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<form name="search" method="post" action="process_search.php">
 Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in
 <select name="columns">
 <option value="">Please choose one:</option>
 <option value="status">Status</option>
 <option value="date">Date</option>
 <option value="species">Species</option>
 <option value="breed">Breed</option>
 <option value="sex">Sex</option>
 <option value="primary_colour">Primary Colour</option>
 <option value="colour">Colour</option>
 <option value="distinctive_traits">Distinctive Traits</option>
 <option value="fur_length">Fur Length</option>
 <option value="age">Age</option>
 <option value="desexed">Desexed</option>
 <option value="microchipped">Microchipped</option>
 <option value="suburb">Suburb</option>
 <option value="pound_area">Pound Area</option>
 <option value="contact">Contact</option>
 <option value="link">Link</option>
 </Select>
 <input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
 <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
 </form>

All good there!  Form displays how I want it to, and submits correctly.

The bit I'm struggling with is the process_search.php side of things.  This is what I have (note that i'm trying to get the results into a formatted table and I'd like more results if the match is in more than one column):

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<?
 //Here we display stuff if they have submitted the form
 if ($searching =="yes")
 {
 echo "<h2>Results</h2><p>";
 
 //If they stuffed up and didn't search for anything, we show them this
 if ($find == "")
 {
 echo "<p>Oh, Bianca, you need to enter SOMETHING to search!";
 exit;
 }
 
 //If everything is all good, we connect to the database
 mysql_connect("localhost", "******", "******") or die(mysql_error());
 mysql_select_db("******") or die(mysql_error());
 
//Let's not forget the register globals off crap
$status = $_POST['status'];
$date = $_POST['date'];
$species = $_POST['species'];
$breed = $_POST['breed'];
$sex = $_POST['sex'];
$primary_colour = $_POST['primary_colour'];
$colour = $_POST['colour'];
$distinctive_traits = $_POST['distinctive_traits'];
$fur_length = $_POST['fur_length'];
$age = $_POST['age'];
$desexed = $_POST['desexed'];
$microchipped = $_POST['microchipped'];
$suburb = $_POST['suburb'];
$pound_area = $_POST['pound_area'];
$contact = $_POST['contact'];
$link = $_POST['link'];
$columns = $_POST['columns'];
 
 // We perform 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
 $data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM animal_info WHERE upper($columns) LIKE'%$find%'");
 
 //And we display the results
 where($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
 {
    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td>".$row['status']."</td>";
    echo "<td>".$row['date']."</td>";
    echo "<td>".$row['species']."</td>";
    echo "<td>".$row['breed']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['sex']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['primary_colour']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['colour']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['distinctive_traits']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['fur_length']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['age']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['desexed']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['microchipped']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['suburb']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['pound_area']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['contact']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['link']."</td>";
    echo "</tr>";
 }
 else
 {
echo "ERROR: ".mysql_error();
}
 //This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that
 $anymatches=mysql_num_rows($data);
 if ($anymatches == 0)
 {
 echo "Nope, couldn't find anything here!  Maybe refine your search criteria?<br><br>";
 }
 
 //And we remind them what they searched for
 echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find;
 }
 ?>
Trouble with this is that I'm not getting any errors OR results!

ANY help would be appreciated HUGELY!

Cheers,

Dave

I am testing live and the data is downloading to the database but when it goes to the next page it gets this message.

Warning: Wrong parameter count for mysql_result() in /home/ebermy5/public_html/html/login.php on line 25
Could not execute query

THIS IS MY CODING ANY IDEAS WHERE I AM GOING WRONG. YES I HAVE THE OPEN AND CLOSE PHP?

if (@$_SESSION['auth'] != "yes")

 @include('Connections/connect_to_mysql.php');
 $query = "SELECT firstName, lastName FROM `Members`
          WHERE email='{$_SESSION['id']}'";            
 $result = mysql_result($query)
             or die("Could not execute query");
 echo "<html>
       <head><title>New Member Welcome</title></head>
      <body>
      <h2 style='margin-top: .7in; text-align: center'>
      Welcome $firstName </h2>\n";

Hi,
I have a problem if users search something which doesn't match the data in the table I'm selecting from.

At the moment I'm trying this code:
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<?php 
require_once('inc/global.inc.php');

# search.inc.php

/* 
 * This is the search content module.
 * This page is included by index.php.
 * This page expects to receive $_GET['terms'].
 */

// Redirect if this page was accessed directly:
if (!defined('BASE_URL')) {

// Need the BASE_URL, defined in the config file:
require_once ('../includes/config.inc.php');

// Redirect to the index page:
$url = BASE_URL . 'index.php?p=search';

// Pass along search terms?
if (isset($_GET['terms'])) {
$url .= '&terms=' . urlencode($_GET['terms']);
}

header ("Location: $url");
exit;

} // End of defined() IF.

// Print a caption:
echo '<h2>Search Results</h2>';

// Display the search results if the form
// has been submitted.
if (isset($_GET['terms']) && ($_GET['terms'] != 'Search...') ) {

$terms = $_GET['terms'];
$dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) or die *('Error connecting to MySQL server');
// Query the database.
$query = "SELECT * FROM product WHERE title LIKE '%$terms%'";

// Fetch the results.
//$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);

// Print the results:

$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query);

if ($result == 0){
  echo "<h3>Sorry,</h3>";
  echo "<p>your search: &quot;" .$terms. "&quot; returned zero results</p>";
}

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

$output[] = '<ul>';
$output[] = '<li>'.$row['title'] .': &pound;'.$row['price'].'<br /><img src="'.$row['img'].'" alt="'.$row['title'].'" /></li>';
$output[] = '</ul>';
}
echo join('',$output);
}

else { // Tell them to use the search form.
echo '<p class="error">Please use the search form at the top of the window to search this site.</p>';
}



?>

But I'm getting this error:
Object of class mysqli_result could not be converted to int

So that little if statement here doesn't work:
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if ($result == 0){
  echo "<h3>Sorry,</h3>";
  echo "<p>your search: &quot;" .$terms. "&quot; returned zero results</p>";
}

Is there another way I can display no search matched results?

Thank you for reading,
Andrew.

Lets say I have an array of different values... for example,

$alreadyViewed = array("hi.jpg","cow.jpg","dog.png");

Lets say my database contains:

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animals.jpg
cat.jpg
cow.jpg
hi.jpg
dog.png

How do you I tell MySQL to only fetch the remaining entries? And ignore everything in the $alreadyViewed array?

My aim is for this what if the table is empty which means no results will be retrieved in the first query then I want it to repeat the $testArray as "TBD" as well.


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function getTop5()
    {
        $this->db->select('character1_id, character2_id, character3_id, character4_id, character5_id');
        $this->db->from('site_top5');
        $this->db->where('status_id', '1');
        $this->db->order_by('id', 'desc');
        $query = $this->db->get(); 
        $row = $query->row();
        $ids = array(
        $row->character1_id,
        $row->character2_id,
        $row->character3_id,
        $row->character4_id,
        $row->character5_id
        );
       
        $testArray = array();
        foreach ($ids as $id) {
            if($id !== "0") {
                $this->db->select('character_name');
                $this->db->from('characters');
                $this->db->where('id', $id);
                $query = $this->db->get(); 
                $row = $query->row();
                $testArray[] = $row->character_name;
            } else {
                $testArray[] = "TBA";
            }
        }
        return $testArray;
    }

Can someone please give me some ideas as to what might be wrong with this query...I keep getting no result and am echoing $count for debugging (and usernames and passwords) but get nothing for $count (expecting a 0 or a 1) or $dbusername or $dbpassword

$sql="SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `User name` = '$fusername' and `Password` = '$fpassword'";
$result=mysql_query($sql);

$dbusername=mysql_result($result,0,"User name");
$dbpassword=mysql_result($result,0,"Password");

echo $dbusername;
echo $dbpassword;


// Mysql_num_row is counting table row
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);

// If result matched $fusername and $fpassword, table row must be 1 row

echo $fusername;
echo $fpassword;
echo $count;

if($count==1){                                               (This is where I keep going to the else)

hi friends. to fetch results from the database i made a function and how i call the function on a page like

$results = GetResults($someID);

when i print_r  the $results i get all the results, but now im confused on how do i print the rows individually?
say i got Title row how will i only get the Title row from the $results VAR?

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<?php $going='';
$name='<span id="name"></span>';
echo "$name";      //results : stevengoh   ---     wanted 
$going=substr($name, 1, 17);
echo "$name";   //results : <span id="going">     ----       don't want
?>
Is it possible to store in php the results of variable id="going" javascript instead of <span id="going"></span>?.

What I expect:
- The function to loop output all of the rows which match the search results.

The problems:
- Only 1 row is matched.
- Notice: Undefined index: id in G:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\dsa\search_func.php on line 57
- The image is not showing

Line 57:
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$id = $_REQUEST['id'];
Entire Code:
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<?php
/*  return the details of an employee
     parameter 
         empno - employee number
         
     eg empHTML.php?empno=7521
    This is  very basic  e.g no error checking      
*/

function search($dbc, $id) { 


if (isset($_GET['terms']) && ($_GET['terms'] != 'Search...') ) {

$terms = $_GET['terms'];
$dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) or die *('Error connecting to MySQL server');

    $query = "SELECT * FROM stick, location, identification WHERE make LIKE '%$terms%' AND stick.sid = location.lid AND identification.stickID = stick.sid
AND identification.stickID = $id";
   
$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query);

    $num_rows = mysqli_num_rows($result);

$output = Array();
   
    $image = mysqli_fetch_object($result);

if ($num_rows > 0){ 
if($result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query)){

$output[] = '<ul>';
$output[] = '<li> Type: '.$image->make .'<br />Size: '.$image->size .$image->type .'<br />Colour: '.$image->colour .
'<br /> Street Missing in: ' .$image->street.'<br />Town missing in: '.$image->town .'<br />City missing in: '.$image->city.'</li>';
$output[] = '</ul>';

}

return join('',$output);
}
else {
echo "<h3>Sorry,</h3>";
echo "<p>your search: &quot;" .$terms. "&quot; returned zero results</p>";
}


}
else { 
// Tell them to use the search form.
echo '<p class="error">Please use the search form at the top of the window to search this site.</p>';
}
}
// connect
$dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);

// get the id from the URL
$id = $_REQUEST['id'];

print search($dbc, $id);
print "<img src='getPhoto.php?id=$id'/>";

// close the database
mysqli_close($dbc);

I have a variable called clientid being passed via a url. I place that in a variable called $clientid

I have two tables, client and web_info

I want to select all from client and web_info for the appropriate clientid. I may not have my tables set up correctly. The primary key on the table client is auto genereated and titled client_id the primary key on web_info is e_mail and I want to pull information from the table web_info where the e_mail columns match.

Below is my PHP:

$query = "SELECT * FROM client WHERE $clientid = client_id and FROM web_info WHERE client.e_mail = web_info.e_mail";
$result = mysqli_query($connection,$query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);

I know I probably screwed all this up but please help

hello, is there a wat to limit the following to only the first 25 characters?

$customername=$row1["customer"];

thanks

I have this code and Im using a while to fetch all the data where users comments are but i want to change it to fetch only 25 rows at a time and each time it refreshes it fetch's 25 more different rows.
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<?php
include "../../connect.php";
Header('Cache-Control: no-cache');
Header('Pragma: no-cache');
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['username']);
//If friend is set, then query for it, otherwise return all of the friends comments.
$friend = (isset($_GET['friend'])) ? ' AND b.friend = \'' . mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['friend']) . '\' ' : NULL;

$sql = "SELECT a.username,a.comment,a.timestamp,a.title,a.picture,a.pic_status,a.pic_url,b.id,c.avatar,c.atimestamp,c.onlinestatus FROM (user_comments as a JOIN accounts as c USING(username))JOIN `user_friends_list` as b ON (b.friend = a.username)WHERE (b.username = '$username' $friend AND b.status = 1) ORDER BY a.id DESC";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
$user_xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n";
//$user_xml .= "<root>\n";
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0)
{ 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{       
$user_xml .= "<comment>\n";
$user_xml .= "<image>" . $row['avatar'] . "</image>\n";
$user_xml .= "<name>" . $row['username'] . "</name>\n";
$user_xml .= "<text>\n";
$user_xml .= "<![CDATA[ ". $row['comment'] ."]]>\n";
$user_xml .= "</text>\n";
$user_xml .= "<time>" . $row['timestamp'] . "</time>\n";
$user_xml .= "<title>" . $row['title'] . "</title>\n";
$user_xml .= "<picture>" . $row['picture'] . "</picture>\n";
$user_xml .= "<status>" . $row['pic_status'] . "</status>\n";
$user_xml .= "<url>" . $row['pic_url'] . "</url>\n";
$user_xml .= "<ntimestamp>" . $row['atimestamp'] . "</ntimestamp>\n";
$user_xml .= "<online>" . $row['onlinestatus'] . "</online>\n";
$user_xml .= "</comment>\n";
}
}
//$user_xml .= "</root>\n";

echo $user_xml; 
?>

So i think i can do something like this but im not to sure.

just add a if statement

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


$user_xml .= "<comment>\n";
$user_xml .= "<image>" . $row['avatar'] . "</image>\n";
$user_xml .= "<name>" . $row['username'] . "</name>\n";
$user_xml .= "<text>\n";
$user_xml .= "<![CDATA[ ". $row['comment'] ."]]>\n";
$user_xml .= "</text>\n";
$user_xml .= "<time>" . $row['timestamp'] . "</time>\n";
$user_xml .= "<title>" . $row['title'] . "</title>\n";
$user_xml .= "<picture>" . $row['picture'] . "</picture>\n";
$user_xml .= "<status>" . $row['pic_status'] . "</status>\n";
$user_xml .= "<url>" . $row['pic_url'] . "</url>\n";
$user_xml .= "<ntimestamp>" . $row['atimestamp'] . "</ntimestamp>\n";
$user_xml .= "<online>" . $row['onlinestatus'] . "</online>\n";
$user_xml .= "</comment>\n";
}

I only wnat to read 25 comments at a time and when i click a button to read more then it reads 25 more rows but it dose not read the data unless requested... can any one help me?

quick question,
I have this code that returns over 100 buttons:
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        <?php
// Query member data from the database and ready it for display
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$product = $row["product"];
$id =$row["id"];
$price =$row["price"];

?>
    <div id="products">
      <form action="" method="POST" name="myform<?php echo $id; ?>" class="myform<?php echo $id; ?>">
        <input type="hidden" name="hiddenField" class="hiddenField" value="<?php echo $product; ?>" />
        <input type="hidden" name="hiddenField2" class="hiddenField2" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
        <input type="hidden" name="hiddenField1" class="hiddenField1" value="<?php echo $price; ?>" />
      <input type="submit" name="submit" class="submit" value="<?php echo $product; ?>" style="background-color:lightgreen; height:50px; width:100px;">   </form>
    </div>   
<?php

}
?>
What I would like is for the buttons to form columns of nine. ie 9 buttons in a column then a new column form....  how do I do this?

Hi

Just a quick one.

I want my output result to look like this. In its simplistic form I have 2 columns, NAME and NUMBER.

Adam
1
2
3

Becky
1
2
3

Charlie
1
2
3


So the output results are grouped by the "name" field, then ordered by the "number" field.

I thought it was GROUP BY, but that function is something else.

Iv tried searching around but im unsure what you call this form of grouping results.

Many Thanks!

I am trying to write a script that will allow me visitors to my site to search my database for items. I followed a tutorial that I had found and tweaked it to fit my needs. I am not getting any results it keeps telling that there was no search results found. Even though I have the items that I have been testing on in my database.

I have two files the main search.php file and the search_func.php file

Here is the search.php file
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<form method='post' action='search.php'>
<fieldset>
<input type='text' name='search' id='search' value='type name here'/>
<input type='submit' name='search_submit' id='search_submit' value='search'/>
</fieldset>
</form>

<?php

include('includes/search_func.php');

if(isset($_POST['search'])) {
$keywords = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities(trim($_POST['search'])));

$errors = array ();

if (empty($keywords )){
$errors[] = 'Please enter a search term';
} else if (strlen($keywords ) < 3 ) {
$errors[] = 'Search term must be more then three characters long';
} else if (search_results($keywords  == false)) {
$errors[] = 'Your search for ' .$keywords . ' showed no results';
}

if (empty($errors)) {
$results = search_results($keywords );
$results_num = count($results);
$suffix = ($results_num != 1) ? 's' : '';
echo 'Your search for <strong>'. $keywords  .'</strong> returned <strong>' .$results_num.'</strong> result'.$suffix.'';

foreach($results as $result) {
echo $result['first'];
}

} else {
foreach($errors as $error){
echo $error;
}
}

}

?>
Here is the search_func.php file
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<?php
include('includes/config.php');
connect();

function search_results($keywords ) {
$returned = array();
$where = "";

$keywords  = preg_split('/[\s+]/', $keywords );
$total = count($keywords );

foreach($keywords  as $key=>$keyword) {
$where .= "`l_name` LIKE '%$keyword%'";

if($key != ($total - 1)){
$where .= "OR";
}
}

$results  = "SELECT `l_name`,`f_name`,`image`,`item_return` FROM `ttmautos` WHERE $where";
$results_num = ($results = mysql_query($results)) ? mysql_num_rows($results): 0 ;

if ($results_num === 0) {
return false;
} else {
while($results_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
$returned_results[] = array(
'last' => $results_row['l_name'],
'first' => $results_row['f_name'],
'image' => $results_row['image'],
'item' => $results_row['item_return']
);
}

return $returned_results;
}
}
?>

If anyone could give me an idea of what I am doing wrong I would appreciate it.