PHP - Displaying Search Results For Correlated Search Terms

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:
Code: [Select]
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.

hey guys, i have a search bar i am implementing into my navmenu but keeping getting errors returned and im not sure why

This is the code in my navmenu to display the search bar
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echo '<form action="search.php" method="post">Search: <input type="text" name="term" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"/>'; Code: [Select]
Here is the php file that query's the search
$term = $_POST['term'];
$dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
$query = mysqli_query("select * from ob_listings where subject like '%$term%' or description like '%$term%' ");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbc, $query)){
echo 'Subject: '.$row['subject'];
echo '<br/> Date: '.$row['date'];
echo '<br/> Price: '.$row['price'];
echo '<br/> City: '.$row['city'];
echo '<br/><br/>';
}
any help is much appreciated

here are the errors being returned

Warning: mysqli_query() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in C:\vhosts\HeadFirst\ourbazzar\search.php on line 16
(line 16 is the $query)

Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given in C:\vhosts\HeadFirst\ourbazzar\search.php on line 17
(line 17 is the while loop)

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.

 The result pages is supposed to have  pagination like google  help me please

 

I have a page that I am using to search a database. Basically what I want to do is allow the end user to sort by column headings after the search results are returned. The sort code that I am using works fine on a "lesser complicated" page that does not involve $_GET variables. I am not sure however if I adapted it properly. Also, I am having problems adding the new $_GET variables to the URL string when the user chooses to sort the returned search results. Thank you in advance for any suggestions. My code is below:

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<?php 
//////////////////// INITIATE SESSION ////////////////////
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
}
//////////////////// ALLOW ACCESS ONLY TO ADMINISTRATORS ////////////////////
if ($_SESSION['person_priveleges'] == 0) {
header("location:index.php");
}
//////////////////// CONNECT AND SELECT DATABASE ////////////////////
require_once('connect.php');
mysql_select_db($database, $connect);
//////////////////// GET STATES ////////////////////
$state = mysql_query("SELECT state_abbreviation FROM state ORDER BY state_abbreviation ASC", $connect);
$data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state);
$rows_state = mysql_num_rows($state);




//////////////////// GET USER SEARCH RESULTS ////////////////////
if (array_key_exists('search', $_GET)) {
$error = array();
if ((empty($_GET['last_name_search'])) && (empty($_GET['organization_search'])) && (empty($_GET['state_search'])) && (empty($_GET['payment_status']))) {
$error['search'] = "Please enter at least one search parameter.";
} else {
$search = "SELECT * FROM person";
$where = false;
if (isset($_GET['last_name_search']) && !empty($_GET['last_name_search'])) {
$last_name_search = $_GET['last_name_search'];
$search .= " WHERE person_last_name LIKE '%$last_name_search%'";
$where = true;
} 
if (isset($_GET['organization_search']) && !empty($_GET['organization_search'])) {
$organization_search = $_GET['organization_search'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_organization LIKE '%$organization_search%'";
}
if (isset($_GET['state_search']) && !empty($_GET['state_search'])) {
$state_search = $_GET['state_search'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_state LIKE '%$state_search%'";
}
if (isset($_GET['payment_status']) && !empty($_GET['payment_status'])) {
$payment_search = $_GET['payment_status'];
if ($where) {
$search .= ' AND ';
   } else {
$search .= ' WHERE ';
$where = true;
   }
$search .= " person_paid LIKE '%$payment_search%'";
}

if (isset($_GET['sort'])) {
$sort = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['sort']);
if (strcasecmp($sort, "DESC") == 0) {
$new_sort = "ASC";
} else {
$new_sort = "DESC";
}
} else {
$sort = "ASC";
$new_sort = "DESC";
}
if (isset($_GET['order'])) {
$order = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['order']);
$search .= " AND person_priveleges = 0 ORDER BY $order";

if (strcasecmp($sort, "DESC") == 0) {
$search .= " DESC";
} else {
$search .= " ASC";
}
} else {
$search .= " AND person_priveleges = 0 ORDER BY person_last_name";
$query_search = mysql_query($search, $connect) or die(mysql_error());
$result_search = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_search);
$number_search = mysql_num_rows($query_search);
$count = 0;
}
}
}
?>
<!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>2011 IDUES Project Directors Meeting</title>
<link href="layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body class="twoColFixLtHdr">
<br />

<!--container starts here-->
<div id="container">

<?php include('header.php'); ?>

<?php include('menu_admin.php'); ?>

<?php include('sidebar_admin.php'); ?>

<!--main content starts here-->
<div id="mainContent">
<h2 class="page_title">REGISTRANT SEARCH</h2>

<div align="center"><?php if (isset($error)) {
echo '<div align="center"><span class="contact_us_error">';
foreach ($error as $alert) {
echo "$alert<br />\n";
}
echo '</div></span>';
} ?></div>

<form id="search" name="search" method="get" action="">
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by Last Name:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><input type="text" name="last_name_search" id="last_name_search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by Organization:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><input type="text" name="organization_search" id="organization_search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="black_font"><label>Search by State:</label></td>
<td class="black_font"><select name="state_search" id="state_search">
    <option value="">Select State</option>
<?php do { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']?>"
<?php if (isset($_POST['state']) && $_POST['state'] == $data_state['state_abbreviation']) {
echo 'selected="selected"';
}
echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']; ?>><?php echo $data_state['state_abbreviation']?></option>
<?php } while ($data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state));
$rows = mysql_num_rows($state);
if ($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($state, 0);
$data_state = mysql_fetch_assoc($state);
} ?>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td valign="top" class="black_font">Search by Payment Status:</td>
  <td class="black_font"><p>
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="Yes" id="payment_status_0" />
      Paid</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="Pending" id="payment_status_1" />
      Pending</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="payment_status" value="No" id="payment_status_2" />
      Not Paid</label>
    <br />
  </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" name="search" id="search" value="Search" />
</form>

<br />

<?php if (array_key_exists('search', $_GET) && !$error) { ?>

<?php if ($number_search == 0) 
{ ?>
<div align="center" class="contact_us_error">No results match your search</div>
<span class="black_font">
<?php } else { ?>

<strong>Total Search Results: <?php echo $number_search; ?></strong>

<br />

</span>

<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font">&nbsp;</td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']."?order=person_last_name&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Name</a></strong></td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_organization&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Organization</a></strong></td>
    <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_state&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">State</a></strong></td>
    <td align="left" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" class="black_font"><strong><?php if ((isset($_GET['payment_status'])) && ($_GET['payment_status'] == 'Yes')) { ?> <a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?order=person_payment_method&sort=$new_sort"; ?>">Payment</a></strong></td> <?php } else { echo "Paid</strong></td>"; } ?>
  </tr>
<tr>
<?php do { ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
<?php $person_id = $result_search['person_id']; ?>
<?php $first_name = $result_search['person_first_name']; ?>
<?php $last_name = $result_search['person_last_name']; ?>
<?php $organization = stripslashes($result_search['person_organization']); ?>
<?php $state = $result_search['person_state']; ?>
<?php $paid = $result_search['person_paid']; ?>
<?php $payment_method = $result_search['person_payment_method']; ?>
<td class="black_font"><?php echo $count; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo "<a href='registrant_info.php?id=$person_id'>$last_name, $first_name</a>"; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo stripslashes($organization); ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php echo $state; ?></td>
    <td class="black_font"><?php if ($paid =='Yes') { echo $payment_method; } else { echo $paid; } ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } while ($result_search = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_search)); ?>
</table>

<span class="black_font">
<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>
</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
<!--main content ends here-->

<!--clearing element should immediately follow #mainContent div to force the #container div to contain all child floats-->
<br class="clearfloat" />

<?php include('footer.php'); ?>

</div>
<!--container ends here-->

</body>
</html>

hi,

I have a search page with a checkbox $departuk that returns the value "true" if checked.

I want to return search results if this returns true and the flag 'Y' is available

if ($departuk == "true"){

if ($data[$i]['departuk'] == 'Y'){

$result = $obj->result;

}

else{

echo "do some thing else";

}

else{

echo"there was a problem";

}


any pointers / advice is appreciated
thanks

I'm new to php and been trying to follow along with different tutorials to try and build my own site, i followed a tutorial on making a search feature
for the site and have it working perfectly, but i want to change the way how to search displays the results. I want to make it display them how there displayed on the index page.

here is the index page how there displayed


<div id="table">
            <table>
                <tr class="top">
                <th>Account</th>
                <th>Country</th>
                <th>Info</th>
                <th>Login</th>
                <th>Pass</th>
                <th>Price</th>
                <th>Buy</th>
            </tr>
            
              
           <?php $class = 'grey'; ?>
                <?php $items = getItems(); ?>
           <?php if(empty ($items)): ?>
                <h3>No Items Found</h3>
            <?php else: ?>
                <?php foreach($items as $item): ?>
                  <?php $class = ($class == 'grey') ? 'grey2' : 'grey'; ?>
                   <tr class="<?php echo $class; ?>">              
                    <td><?php echo $item['item_account']; ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo $item['item_country']; ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo $item['item_info']; ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo maskUser($item['item_login']); ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo maskPass($item['item_pass']); ?></td>
                    <td><?php echo $item['item_price']; ?> </td>
                    <td><form method="post" action="https://sci.libertyreserve.com/"><input type="submit" name="buy" value="Buy" class="button" /></form></td>
                    
                </tr>
               
                <?php endforeach; ?>
          <?php endif; ?>


how the search is display


if (strlen($search) <= 2)
        {
            echo 'Search keyword is too short.';
        }
        else
        {
            echo "You searched for <b>$search</b><hr size='1'>";
           
              
                $search_exploded = explode(" ", $search);
                
                foreach($search_exploded as $search_each)
                {
                   
                    $x++;
                    if ($x == 1)
                        $construct .= "item_account LIKE '%$search_each%'";
                    else
                        $construct .= " OR item_account LIKE '%$search_each%'";
                        
                    
                }
                
                $construct = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE $construct";
                
               $run = mysql_query($construct);
               
               $foundnum = mysql_num_rows($run);
               
               if ($foundnum == 0)
               {
                   echo 'No results found.';
               }
               else
               {
                   echo "$foundnum results found!</p>";
                   
                   while ($numrows = mysql_fetch_assoc($run))
                   {
                       $item_id = $numrows['item_id'];
                       $itemAccount = $numrows['item_account'];
                       $itemI = $numrows['item_info'];
                       $itemLogin = $numrows['item_login'];
                       $itemPass = $numrows['item_pass'];
                       $itemPrice = $numrows['item_price'];
                       
                       echo "
                           <b>$itemAccount</b><br />
                           $itemI <br />
                            " . maskUser($itemLogin) . '<br />' . maskPass($itemPass, 0) . '<br />'; 
                   }
                   
               }
           
            
        }

my question is im not sure how to edit the search code to display the results in the same format as the index page

thanks

Okay, I'm wanting to do a search, but until return the info if it has a specific indicator in the chosen field.

Let me show you:

$query = doquery("SELECT * FROM `orgs` IF `type`='c' ORDER BY name", "orgs");


How do I do that "IF" bit? Obviously this doesn't work.

Thanks!

Hi guys,

A beginner at php/mysql here...

For a project I'm doing, I would like to display search results with an image, small description, then a 'read more' link.
After googling this issue, I can't find much information on it, which surprised me.  Someone did mention blobs for images... (whatever they are!)
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any tutorials, or has any code to do this?

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi, I have search form which works apart from 1 part, I have set the results limit to 10 per page with a next link if there are more than 10 results, however when the next link is clicked, i get the error 'you do not have a search parameter' which comes from this code:

Code: [Select]
if (!isset($var))
          {
          echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
          exit;
          }
The next link is defined by the code below:

Code: [Select]
// 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 10 &gt;&gt;</a>";
          }
Can anyone see where I have gone wrong with this code without me sending the whole search form? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Good Evening,
I've been in a trial and error state for the past week trying to figure out how I can put on the pre-made pagination scripts I found on the web, but of no luck. I have just started programming like two weeks ago, and is still trying to understand logics and stuffs so I can get my desired output. So far, everything is doing well except for one - I am really having a hard time to incorporate pagination scripts with my code. To rank myself as a php programmer, I can say I am lower than one, and seemingly, what I want to achieve is an advanced code. Can anyone help me on what pagination code I should try to play with and incorporate with my code?

Here's my code so far:

<?PHP
include("dbconnection.php"); //Include database connection to file

$query = "SELECT * FROM records";

if(isset($_POST["btnSearch"]))

{
$query .= " WHERE last_name LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%' OR first_name LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%'OR territory LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%'OR job_title LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%'OR title LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%'OR employer LIKE '%".$_POST["search"]."%' ORDER BY territory ASC LIMIT 0,15"  ;

$result = mysql_query($query, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
} 

?>

<!-- Start of table -->
<table width="760" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<td>
      <table width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        
<!-- Table data containing the Asia Logo -->
            <td width="199" align="center" valign="top">
                <a href="login.html">
                 <img src="asia.gif" alt="" width="152" height="58" border="0" />
                </a>
            </td>
            <!-- Table data containing Home button -->
            <td width="176" align="right" valign="bottom">
                <a href="main.php">
                 <img src="Home.jpg" width="104" height="20" border="0"/>
                </a>
            </td>
            <!-- Table data containing View Client button -->
            <td width="130" align="right" valign="bottom">
                <img src="View.jpg" width="104" height="20" border="0"/>
            </td>
            <!-- Table data containing the Add Client button -->
            <td width="146" align="right" valign="bottom">
                <a href="add_client.php">
                 <img src="Add.jpg" width="104" height="20" border="0"/>
                </a>
            </td>
            <!-- Blank table data -->
            <td width="109" align="right" valign="bottom">&nbsp;
            
            </td>
        </table>

        <!-- Table design division and body-->
        <table width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
     <td width="200" height="3"  bgcolor="#1B1C78">
     <img src="images/topspacerblue.gif" alt="" width="1" height="3" /></td>
    <td width="560"  bgcolor="#0076CC">
     <img src="images/topspacerlblue.gif" alt="" width="1" height="3" /></td>
    <tr>
    <td height="500" colspan="2" align="center" valign="top"  bgcolor="#F3FAFE">
            <!-- Page contents -->
            <!-- Search Query -->
            <br>
            <form name="form" action="view_client.php" method="post">
            <table width="351" border="0">
<tr>
                    <td width="137" align="left" valign="middle">
                        SEARCH RECORD:
                    </td>
                    <td width="144" align="center" valign="middle">
                        <input type="text" name="search" />
                    </td>
                    <td width="56" align="left" valign="middle">
                        <input type="submit" name="btnSearch" value="Search" />
                    </td>
</tr>
</table>
            <br>
            <!-- End of search query-->
            <!-- Start of Search Results-->
            <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="38619E" >
                <tr>
                    <th width="80" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E8F3">Territory</th>
                    <th width="330" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E8F3">Employer</th>
                    <th width="160" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E8F3">Name</th>
                    <th width="80" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#E0E8F3">&nbsp;</th>
                </tr>
<?php
if($result)
{
for($i=0; $i<mysql_num_rows($result); $i++)
   {
$id = trim(mysql_result($result, $i, "id"));
$territory = trim(mysql_result($result, $i, "territory"));
$employer = trim(mysql_result($result, $i, "employer"));
$first_name = trim(mysql_result($result, $i, "first_name"));
$last_name = trim(mysql_result($result, $i, "last_name"));
  
echo "<tr>";
   echo "<td>".$territory."</td>";
   echo "<td>".$employer."</td>";
   echo "<td>".$last_name.", ".$first_name."</td>";
   echo "<td><a href='edit_client.php?id=".$id."'>edit</a> | <a href='delete_client.php?id=".$id."'>delete</a></td>";
   echo "</tr>";
}   
}  
?>

</table>
            </form>
            <!-- End of page -->
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
</td>
<tr>
     <td height="38">
         <table width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">      
         <td width="200" height="35" align="center"  bgcolor="#1B1C78" class=white>
         <a href="disclaimer.html">
             <font color="#FFFFFF">Legal Disclaimer</font>
             </a>
         </td>
         <td width="560" align="center"  bgcolor="#0076CC">
         Copyright &copy; 2006 - 2010 Asia. All rights reserved.
         </td>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>

Thank you very much, and I am looking forward for your responses. Thanks!

Complete beginner here so just really looking for pointers on where to start.

Been doing a bit of bug fixing on one of our sites because the past 3 programmers we've hired have disappeared on us. The big issue I'm looking to solve is the load time of a search. Our website (Love-Rugs) is taking about 6 or 7 seconds to perform a blank search (basically a quick browse) whereas out other site (Little-Persia) takes about a second. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just the initial search but going from one page (only 10 products listed per page) to the next takes the same amount of time.

There seems to be an awful lot of queries (around 130-150) on the searches - however - when using some of the search options e.g. type and fabric to refine the search the queries actually stay high but the time to process the results is reduced significantly. I don't really understand why if the queries are still high the search time is much lower unless it's to do with the number of results returned. However this does not explain why Little-Persia (which has far more products on it) takes less time as there would obviously be more results.

I realize that without code this isn't easy to answer so I'm just looking to see if someone can point me in the right direction to look at just now.

Greetings!

This n00b has a "search engine" dedicated to extracting relevant information from log files. It works by parsing preset fields in the log filename.

I'd like to have some notification when the search returns no rows as I am planning to add more search options. Here's my code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
        <title>LogFile Search</title>
        <style type="text/css">      <<irrelevant stuff removed>>        </style>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/UI.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h3 id="myh3">Log File Search</h3><h5>Version 1.0.1</h5>
        <h4 id="myh4"><ul><li>         <<irrelevant stuff removed>>   </li></ul></h4>
        <form method="post" name="LogFile_Search" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
            <table id="mytable">
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td id="mytd">Result(P|F|N):  <input type="text" id="Result_PFN" name="Result_PFN" size="31"/></td>
                        <td id="mytd">Script Version:  <input type="text" id="ScriptVersion" name="ScriptVersion" size="31"/></td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>
            <br>
            <input type="submit" value="Search" onclick="doForm();">
            <input type="button" value="Reset" onclick="resetForm();">
        </form>
<div id="searchResult">
            <?php
            /* Where the logs files are dropped by external process. */
            $mydir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/LogFile_Search/LogFiles";
            /* Handle to directory. */
            $dir = opendir($mydir);
            /* Form variables. */
            $Result_PFN = $_POST['Result_PFN'];
            $ScriptVersion = $_POST['ScriptVersion'];
            /*  Test each field -- triggers JS alert if all are empty.         */
            if (!empty($Result_PFN)) {
                doResult_PFN();
            } elseif (!empty($ScriptVersion)) {
                doScriptVersion();
            }
            /* Function for Search on Script version in logfile contents.             */
            function doScriptVersion() {
                global $dir;
                global $mydir;
                global $ScriptVersion;

                echo '<table id=\'mytable\'><tbody><tr><td id=\'mytd\'>Log File Name.</td></tr>';
                //grabs all log files matching the script version number that's input in the form.
                $cmd = "find " . $mydir . " -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep  -e 'Test_Version=" . $ScriptVersion . "'";
                exec($cmd, $output);

                //Sort the array using a case insensitive "natural order" algorithm.
                natcasesort($output);

                if (count($output) > 0) {
                    foreach ($output as $v) {
                        //Display file name without full path as URL.
                        echo '<tr><td><a href="' . basename($mydir) . '/'
                        . array_pop(explode("/", array_shift(explode(":", $v)))) . '"  target="_blank">'
                        . array_pop(explode("/", array_shift(explode(":", $v)))) . '</a></td></tr>';
                    }
                } else {
                    echo "<html><body style=\"background-color:#0080c0\">
<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">alert(
'Nothing found'
+ '.');</script> </body></html>";
                }
                closedir($dir);
                echo "</table></body>";
            }

            /* Function for Search on Result marker in file name.            */
            function doResult_PFN() {
                global $dir;
                global $mydir;
                global $Result_PFN;

                echo '<table id=\'mytable\'><tbody><tr><td id=\'mytd\'>Log File Name.</td></tr>';

                if ($dir) {
      //List files in directory
                    while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
      //Ignores OS stuff.
                        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
      //Pattern match for result.
                            if (preg_match("/~(P|F|N)*" . $Result_PFN . "~/i", $file)) {
                      //Sort the array using a case insensitive "natural order" algorithm.
                      natcasesort($file);
                                echo '<tr><td><a href="' . basename($mydir) . '/' . $file . '"  target="_blank">' . $file . '</a></td></tr>';
                            }
                        } else {
                    echo "<html><body style=\"background-color:#0080c0\">
<script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">alert(
'Nothing found'
+ '.');</script> </body></html>";
                }
                    closedir($dir);
                }
                echo "</table></body>";
            }
            ?>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

When doResult_PFN() returns no result, the ELSE portion is never evaluated and no notification is sent to the user. However, I have no problem with doScriptVersion(): it returns an alert.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Al.

Hi All,

I have a pagination script that works correctly when a user clicks on a category heading, however when I am using it to try an display search results it does not take into account the set of records to display per page, it just shows all results.


<?php


echo '<h3>Search Results</h3><br />';



$query = "SELECT count(*) from merchants WHERE name LIKE '%$_GET[q]%' OR short like '%$_GET[q]%' OR full like '%$_GET[q]%' OR keywords like '%$_GET[q]%'"; 
$row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query));
$total_records = $row['count(*)'];
$records_per_page = 5;
$total_pages = ceil($total_records / $records_per_page);
$page = intval($p);
if ($page < 1 || $page > $total_pages) $page = 1;
$offset = ($page - 1) * $records_per_page; 
 
$limit = " LIMIT $offset, $records_per_page";



$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM merchants WHERE name LIKE '%$_GET[q]%' OR short like '%$_GET[q]%' OR full like '%$_GET[q]%' OR keywords like '%$_GET[q]%' ORDER BY m_id  DESC") ; 
echo mysql_error() ;



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

$name = $row['name'];
$short = $row['short'];
$per = $row['percent'];
$m_id = $row['m_id'];

?>
    
    <div id="cbbox">
    <a href="viewm.php?m_id=<?php echo $m_id;?>">
     <div class="cbname">
         <?php echo $name;?> &nbsp; - Up to <?php echo $per ;?>% Cashback Available
        </div>
        <div class="cbimage">
         <img src="pimage/<?php echo $name;?>.gif" height="50px" width="100px" />
        </div>
      <div class="cbshort">
         <?php echo $short;?>
        </div>
        </a>
        <div class="cbtweet">
        <a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Get up to <?php echo $per;?> percent Cashback on purchase from <?php echo $name;?> http://goo.gl/PLkp"><img src="images/cbtweet.png" width="90" height="50" alt="Tweet This" /></a>
 
        </div></div>
<br /><br />
<?php
}
if($total_records > 5)
{
for ($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) {
echo "<a title='page $i p=$i'>Page $i -  </a>";
}
}

?>
</div>


if I echo out $total_records it displays the correct amount (7 in the case I am looking at)

Any ideas?