PHP - Search Into Tables

Hi,
So I'm trying to make a car rental project, and I need to show cars of a specific type, available in a specific period.
I'm currently using this query:
SELECT * FROM car, reservations
WHERE car.car_id = reservations.car
AND car.type = 1 AND reservations.reserved_from >= "2011-12-22"
AND reservations.reserved_to <= "2012-12-20";

So this returns all the cars of the type 1 reserved in 2011-12-22 - 2012-12-20 period.
So know that I know which cars are unavailable, how would you go ahead and pick out what's left?

I present videos on my site. The videos (their titles, descriptions, etc.) are stored in a MySQL database.

I want visitors to be able to search my database for videos.

My MySQL version is 5.5.40-36.1.

The storage engine of my tables is INNODB.

The two columns I want searched a title (varchar; unique index) description (text; no index) According to my research, the best way to allow users to search my database would be to use FULLTEXT, but my INNODB tables are incompatible. FULLTEXT is available for INNODB in MySQL 5.6.4 and above.

I would rather not use LIKE '%...%', and I would rather not use a third party solution such as Sphinx because my database will never grow particularly large (I doubt it'll ever exceed 6,000–8,000 videos).

What do you guys recommend? Is it okay to use LIKE with a database containing 6,000–8,000 items?

Not sure if this topic goes in here, it is related to PHP but also MySql, so if i'm on the wrong board sorry!

What i'm trying to do is search for a keyword in 5 different tables and return the keyword ID from the table that its in

The tables i'm trying to search are as follow

location
state
county
region
continent

The "location" table has all the locations i.e cities and each row has the following columns:
id | continent_id | country_id | state_id | region_id | city_name

The "state" table is set the the following:
id | name

"county" table :
id | name

"region" table:
id | region

and "continent" table
 id | name

The way it works is the can search for any city or state or county or region or continent and ideally it should look into the five different tables and return the id of that table. So if the use searches for United States it will look for United States in all five tables, obviously it would find it in the "country" table so it should return that "id". The results are returned in "json format"

Below is the code i have:

Code: [Select]
<?
$input = $_GET['keyword'];
$data = array();

/*

In this query i'm attempting to search in all databases, but i'm not sure if i'm doing this right.
I'm not getting any results so i know something is wrong just don't know how to write it.

*/

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM locations JOIN states ON states.id = locations.state_id JOIN countries ON countries.id=locations.country_id JOIN regions ON regions.region_id = locations.region_id JOIN continents ON continents.id=locations.continent_id WHERE name LIKE '$input%' OR state LIKE '$input%' OR region LIKE '$input%' OR country LIKE '$input%' OR continent LIKE '$input%'") or die(mysql_error());

/*

Here the values are added to to the $json array. The "value" should be the "id" from the table that the keyword matched. The 'name'
Should be the name of the actual keyword. Again if they search for United States the "id" will come from the "countries" table and the "value"
would come from the "countries" table as the name

*/

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
$json = array();
$json['value'] = $row['id'];
$json['name'] = $row['name'];
$data[] = $json;
}

header("Content-type: application/json");

echo json_encode($data);
?>


Any help would he be appreciated, i don't want people to do it for me, but rather just guide me a little bit.

Bear with me, as I'm still quite new at PHP.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to build a search function for a database that will eventually be quite large.

The path of the search I'm building is to go from a straight-forward javascript and html search page, to a paginated search result. Then the user can narrow down those query results based on a new search of their results.

In trying to get the pagination to work across several pages(unsuccessfuly, I might add), I've been learning about sessions and temporary tables. But, because the database will be very large, I'm wondering if they are the wrong way. Sessions have a time limit, and temporary tables delete once the connection is closed.

Is it possible/feasible to build a permanent table that puts in the search variables, with a unique id and use this to manage the searches, pagination and all that? Then, at some point in the process, I can put code to delete the corresponding row (or even make it a saveable search). Maybe somebody sees where I'm going with this and  can describe it better than me? I'm just thinking off the cuff at the moment. Maybe there's some terminology that will help me find a tutorial. Any bit helps.
thanks!

Hi. Im trying to get my table so I can click on username and it will display ascending or click again and it descends.

I want to be able to do this will all of them..Username Password IP Country Type Status E-mail Date start Date end ..
If anyone can help me it would be great. I dont know PHP . I paid someone to make this for my and they binned it half way through the job taking my money...



Thank you

This is my code



<?php
if(session_is_registered('username')){
    include("header.php");
   
?>                 
            <div id="content_main" class="clearfix">
            <div id="main_panel_container" class="left">
   <div id="tabledata" class="section">
            <h2 class="ico_mug">Users table</h2>
            <?
            if($_GET['type']=='delete'){
                mysql_query("delete from users where id='".$_GET['id']."'");
                ?><div id="success" class="info_div"><span class="ico_success">User deleted successful!</span></div><?
            }
            if($_GET['type']=='edit'){
                if(isset($_POST['username'])){
                    mysql_query("UPDATE users SET username='".$_POST['username']."',
                                                  password='".$_POST['password']."',
                                                  ip='".$_POST['ip']."',
                                                  country='".$_POST['country']."'
                                 WHERE id='".$_GET['id']."'");
                }
                $row=mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id='".$_GET['id']."'"));
                  ?>
                           <form action="" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
                           <fieldset>

                           <label>Username:<input type="text" name="username" value="<?echo $row['username'];?>" size=60/></label>
                           <label>Password:<input type="text" name="password" value="<?echo $row['password'];;?>" size=60/></label>
                           <label>IP:<input type="text" name="ip" value="<?echo $row['ip'];;?>" size=60/></label>
                           <label>Country:<input type="text" name="country" value="<?echo $row['country'];;?>" size=60/></label>
                             
                           <br />  <button>Submit</button>
             
                            </fieldset>
           
                            </form>
                            <button onclick="location.href='index.php?action=users';">Back</button>
                           <?
            }
            if($_GET['type']=='add'){
                if(isset($_POST)){
                    $j=0;
                    for($i=1; $i<=5; $i++){
                        if($_POST['username'.$i]!=''){
                        if(($_POST['username'.$i]!='') &&
                           ($_POST['password'.$i]!='') &&
                           ($_POST['ip'.$i]!='') &&
                           ($_POST['country'.$i]!=''))
                        {
                            if(($_POST['date_start'.$i]=='')||($_POST['date_end'.$i]=='')){
                                $date_start=0;
                                $date_end=0;
                            } else {
                            $date_start=strtotime($_POST['date_start'.$i]);
                            $date_end=strtotime($_POST['date_end'.$i]);
                            }
                            mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (username,password,ip,email,country,date_start,date_end) VALUES
                                        ('".$_POST['username'.$i]."','".$_POST['password'.$i]."','".$_POST['ip'.$i]."','".$_POST['email'.$i]."','".$_POST['country'.$i]."','".$date_start."','".$date_end."')
                                        ");
                            $j++;
                        } else {
                            ?><div id="fail" class="info_div"><span class="ico_cancel">Fields on the same row can't be blank</span></div><?
                        }
                        }
                    }
                    if($j>0){
                    ?><div id="success" class="info_div"><span class="ico_success"><? echo $j;?> users have been added!</span></div><?
                    }
                }
               
            ?>
            <fieldset>
            <i>
            Date format should be like 2000-05-25<br>
            Type: B for instant buy; S for subscription<br>
            Status: Y for active; N for inactive
            </i>
            </fieldset>
            <form action="" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
            <table id="table">
            <thead>
            <tr>
               
                <th>Username</th>
                <th>Password</th>
                <th>IP</th>
                <th>Email</th>
                <th>Country</th>
                <th>Type</th>
                <th>Status</th>
                <th>Date start</th>
                <th>Date end</th> 
            </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
           
                           
           
                <?
                for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++) {
?>
                <tr>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="username<?echo $i;?>" size="10">
                </td>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="password<?echo $i;?>" size="10">
                </td>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="ip<?echo $i;?>" size="10">
                </td>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="email<?echo $i;?>" size="10">
                </td>
                <td>
                    <select name="country<?echo $i;?>">
                        <option value="UK">UK</option>
                        <option value="US">US</option>
                    </select>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <select name="type<?echo $i;?>">
                        <option value="B" selected>B</option>
                        <option value="S">S</option>
                    </select>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <select name="status<?echo $i;?>">
                        <option value="Y" selected>Y</option>
                        <option value="N">N</option>
                    </select>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="date_start<?echo $i;?>"  size="10">
                </td>
                <td>
                    <input type="text" name="date_end<?echo $i;?>" size="10">
                </td>
                </tr>
                <? } ?>
           
            <tr>
            <td><button>Submit</button> </td>
            </tr> 
                           
           
                           
            </tbody>
            </table>
            </form>
            <br>
            <?
           
            }
           
?>
       
       <?php
           
         if($_GET['type']=='import')
         {
            
            if($_POST['import'] && $_FILES['flimport']['name']!='')
            {
               //print_r($_FILES);
               $fieldseparator = ",";
               $lineseparator = "\n";
               $csvfile=$_FILES['flimport']['tmp_name'];
               $size = $_FILES['flimport']['size'];
               if(!$size) {
                  exit;
               }
               $file = fopen($csvfile,"r");
               $csvcontent = fread($file,$size);
               fclose($file);
               //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
               $lines = 0;
               $queries = 0;
               $linearray = array();
               foreach(split($lineseparator,$csvcontent) as $line) {
               
                  $lines++;
               
                  $line = trim($line," \t");
                  
                  $line = str_replace("\r","",$line);
                  $line = str_replace("'","\'",$line);
                  
                  $linearray = explode($fieldseparator,$line);
                  
                  $linemysql = implode("','",$linearray);
                  $exist=0;
                  if(is_numeric($linearray[0]))
                  {
                     $exist=mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select id from users where username='".$linearray[2]."' or email='".$linearray[1]."'"));
                        $query = "insert into users values('$linemysql');";
                     
                  }
                  else
                  {
                     $exist=mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select id from users where username='".$linearray[1]."' or email='".$linearray[0]."'"));
                        $query = "insert into users values('','$linemysql');";
                     
                  }
                  //echo $query."<br />";
                  if($exist==0)
                  {
                     @mysql_query($query);               
                     if(mysql_insert_id())
                        $queries++;
                  }
               }   
               
                  echo '<div id="success" class="info_div"><span class="ico_success">'.$queries.' users added successfully</span></div>';
               
            }
         ?>
            <form name="frmImport" action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
            <input type="hidden" value="1" name="import" />
                <table id="table">
                <tbody>
                   <tr>
                         <td><span style="font-size:10px; color:#333">Note: Please entry ms excel <strong>.CSV (Comma delimited)</strong> file only</span></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                         <td><input type="file" accept="application/msexcel" name="flimport" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                         <td><button>Import Now</button></td>
                    </tr>
                   </tbody>
                  </table>
            </form>
         <br />
         <?php } ?>
      
      <button onclick="location.href='index.php?action=users&type=add';">Add users</button>
      &nbsp;<button onclick="location.href='index.php?action=users&type=import';" name="btnimport">Import users</button>
         &nbsp;<button onclick="location.href='export.php?datafrom=users';" name="btnexport">Export users</button>
      
      
      
        <table id="table">
            <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Actions</th>
                <th>Username</th>
                <th>Password</th>
                <th>IP</th>
                <th>Country</th>
                <th>Type</th>
                <th>Status</th>
                <th>E-mail</th>
                <th>Date start</th>
                <th>Date end</th>
               
            </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
            <?
            if (isset($_GET["page"])) { $page  = $_GET["page"]; } else { $page=1; }
            $start_from = ($page-1) * 20;
            $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE 1 LIMIT $start_from, 20");
            while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)){
               
           
?>
            <tr>
                <td><a href="index.php?action=users&type=delete&id=<?echo $row['id'];?>"><img src="img/cancel.jpg" alt="cancel"/></a><a href="index.php?action=users&type=edit&id=<?echo $row['id'];?>"><img src="img/edit.jpg" alt="edit"/></a></td>
                <td><?echo $row['username'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['password'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['ip'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['country'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['type'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['status'];?></td>
                <td><?echo $row['email'];?></td> 
                <td class="table_date"><?echo date("Y-m-d",$row['date_start']);?></td>
                <td class="table_date"><?echo date("Y-m-d",$row['date_end']);?></td>
            </tr>
           
            <?
            }
?>
            </tbody>
        </table>
        <?
           
            $rs_result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(id) FROM users");
            $row = mysql_fetch_row($rs_result);
            $total_records = $row[0];
            $total_pages = ceil($total_records / 20);
             
?>
           
            <div class="pagination">
                <span class="pages">Page 1 of <?echo $total_pages;?></span>
               
                <?php
                for ($i=1; $i<=$total_pages; $i++) {
                if($page==$i){
                    ?><span class="current"><b><?echo $page;?></span></b><?
                } else {
                    echo "<a href='index.php?action=users&type=view&page=".$i."'>".$i."</a> ";
                }
                }
                if($total_pages>1){
                $next=$page+1;
               
                ?>
                <a href="index.php?action=users&type=view&page=<? echo $next;?>" >&raquo;</a>
                <?
                }
?>
            </div>
        </div> <!-- end #tabledata -->

              <?
        include("shortcuts.php");
        ?>
            </div>
        <?
       
        ?>
        </div><!-- end #content_main -->


       
        </div><!-- end #content -->
 <?
    include("footer.php");
?>

<?
    } else {
    header( "Location: index.php?action=login" );
}
?>

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

 

Im doing a search system and Im having some problems. I need to search in two tables (news and pages), I already had sucess doing my search system for just one table, but for two tables its not easy to do. I already use a select statment with two tables using UNION because I want to show number of search results, that is number of returned rows of my first sql statment. But now I need to do a select statment that allows me to acess all fields of my news table and all fields of my pages table. I need to acess in my news table this fields: id, title, content, link, date, nViews I need to acess in my pages table this fields: id, title, content, link Im trying to do this also with UNION, but in this case Im not having any row returning. Do you see what I have wrong in my code?   <?php
//first I get my $search keyword
$search = $url[1];

$pdo = connecting();
//then I want to show number of returned rows for keyword searched
$readALL = $pdo->prepare("SELECT title,content FROM news WHERE title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ?
UNION SELECT title,content FROM pages WHERE title LIKE ? OR content like ?");
$readALL->bindValue(1,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(2,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(3,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->bindValue(4,"%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL->execute();
//I show number of returned rows
echo '<p>Your search keyword returned <strong>'.$readALL->rowCount().'</strong> results!</p>';
//If dont return any rows I show a error message
if($readALL->rowCount() <=0){
echo 'Sorry but we didnt found any result for your keyword search.';
}
else{
//If return rows I want to show, if it is a page result I want to show title and link that I have in my page table
//if it is a news result I want to show title and link that I have in my news table and also date of news
echo '<ul class="searchlist">';
$readALL2 = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM news WHERE status = ? AND title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ? LIMIT 0,4
UNION SELECT * FROM pages where title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ? LIMIT 0,4");
$readALL2->bindValue(1, '1');
$readALL2->bindValue(2, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->bindValue(3, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->bindValue(4, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
$readALL2->execute();

while ($result = $readALL2->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
echo '<li>';
echo '<img src="'.BASE.'/uploads/news/'.$result['thumb'].'"/>';
echo '<a href="'.BASE.'/news/'.$result['id_news'].'">'.$result['title'].'</a>';
//if it is a news result I also want to show date on my list
//echo '<span id="date">'.$result['date'].'</span>';
echo '</li>';
}
echo ' </ul>';
//but how can I do my select statement to have access to my news table fields and my page table fields??
}
?>

This portion is kind of stumping me. Basically, I have a two tables in this DB: users and users_access_level (Separated for DB normalization)

users: id / username / password / realname / access_level
users_access_level: access_level / access_name

What I'm trying to do, is echo the data onto an HTML table that displays users.username in one table data and then uses the users.access_level to find users_access_level.access_name and echo into the following table data, I would prefer not to use multiple queries if possible or nested queries.

Example row for users: 1234 / tmac / password / tmac / 99
Example row for users_access_level: 99 / Admin

Using the examples above, I would want the output to appear as such:

Username: Access Name: Tmac Admin
I am not 100% sure where to start with this, but I pick up quickly, I just need a nudge in the right direction.

The code I attempted to create just shows my lack of knowledge of joining tables, but I'll post it if you want to see that I did at least make an effort to code this myself.

Thanks for reading!

I am trying to write some data from multiple SQL tables to a page. In the first table is a list of places. I then have more tables that are named after the different places. For example, say my first place in the list is called Place1. I have a table named Place1 with data that corresponds to place1. The data contained in the table named Place1 is a list of things to do in this place. It has 21 columns and each one is something to do in the morning, afternoon, and at night for each day of the week in the place Place1. What I am trying to do is display a sort of weekly calendar as a table on a webpage that lists all of the places in one column and then lists seven days of the week as 7 more columns. Then in each data cell I would want to list the things to do in the morning, afternoon and at night for the certain day of the week and for the place. The problem is that I am creating a CMS to allow other users with no coding knowledge to update events for other places, so I have to display data that could have been altered.

The only solution I know of is to do a while loop that gets all of the place names and while there are still place names, write the place names to the page and set a variable equal to the place name. Inside the while loop I would create another while loop that each time the first while loop is executed uses the variable set in the first while loop to know which table to reference and then make a call to that table pulling out the 21 columns and writing them to the page. Each time the outer while loop executes, it would (hopefully) write the place name, and then set the variable as the current place name so that the inner while loop uses the variable to write the rest of the information about that place.

I don't know if that would even work and if it did, I know it cannot be the best way to do this. I am pretty stuck here and don't really have a good solution so if anyone proposes a solution that is radically different to anything I have done, I am open to everything. Thank you!

I require a page to be added to my website. This page will facilitate a refined search via Google, Bing and Yahoo search engine simultaneously , show the top 5 of each engine.

Is this possible using php ?

Thank's

Hello,

Does anyone know a tutorial I can follow to create my own search engine over the items I have in my SQL database?
I find a lot of tutorials but they are all 'one word searches' which means if you type two words you will get all results that contain either word (too many hits).

If the search engine tutorial displays result with AJAX even better.

Thanks for help.
df

I have code to search a database of members, I can search by lastname but having a little problem. I want to be able to search by lastname starting with the first letter. (ie:  a or b or c or d and so on). As it is right now I can only search by first letter of last name if I add % to the search (ie: a% b% c%) will give me all members with the last names starting with the approiate letter designation. I'm not sure how to handle this, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Code: [Select]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
 
</head>
<body>
<center><table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10" width="750" border="0">
<h4>Search</h4>
 
<form name="search" method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF?>">
Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in <Select NAME="field">

<Option VALUE="lname">Last Name</option>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>
 
<?php 
 
// check to see if anything is posted
if (isset($_POST['find'])) {$find = $_POST['find'];}
if (isset($_POST['searching'])) {$searching = $_POST['searching'];}
if (isset($_POST['field'])) {$field = $_POST['field'];}
 
//This is only displayed if they have submitted the form 
if (isset($searching) && $searching=="yes") {
echo "<h4>Results</h4><p>";
// If they did not enter a search term we give them an error
if (empty($find)) {
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; exit;
}
 
// Otherwise we connect to our Database 
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "1910") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("cmc_member") or die(mysql_error());
 
// We preform a bit of filtering 
$find = strtoupper($find);
$find = strip_tags($find); $find = trim ($find); 
 
// Now we search for our search term, in the field the user specified 
$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE upper($field) LIKE'$find'");
 
// And we display the results 
if($results && mysql_num_rows($results) > 0)
{
    $i = 0;
    $max_columns = 3;
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results))
   {
       // make the variables easy to deal with
       extract($row);

       // open row if counter is zero
       if($i == 0)
          echo "<tr>";

       // make sure we have a valid product ALIGN='CENTER'

       if($fname != "" && $fname != null)
          echo "<td ALIGN='CENTER'><FONT COLOR='red'><b>$fname $lname</b></FONT><br> $address <br> $city $state $zip <br>$phone<br><a href=\"mailto: $email\">$email</a><br></td>";

       // increment counter - if counter = max columns, reset counter and close row
       if(++$i == $max_columns)
       {
           echo "</tr>";
           $i=0;
           }  // end if
   } // end while

} // end if results

// clean up table - makes your code valid!
if($i < $max_columns)
{
    for($j=$i; $j<$max_columns;$j++)
        echo "<td>&nbsp;</td>";

}

//This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that 
$anymatches = mysql_num_rows($results);
 
if ($anymatches == 0) {
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>"; }
 
//And we remind them what they searched for 
echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find;
}
?>
</tr>
</table></center>
</body>
</html>

I am developing a intranet forum in Php and MySQL and I am using ajax to display searched results on the same page but right now I am using query LIKE text% to search in database which is slower. but I want to make it fast search engin which can parse *,+ and show result.

Since I am using ajax i am not able to use free search engin,so if possible pls provide a complete solution

Hello. I am working on a php script for searching a database table. I am really new to this, so I used the this tutorial http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search

I managed to get all the things working the way I wanted, except one important and crucial thing.
Let me explain.
My table consist of three columns, like this:

ID(bigint20)    title(text)        link (varchar255)
=============================
ID1                title1                link-1
ID2                title2                link-2
etc...

Like I said, I managed to make the script display results for a search query based on the title. Want I want it to do more, but I can't seem to find the right resource to learn how, is to place a "Download" button under each search result with its corresponding link from the table.

Here is the code I used.

<?php

$dbHost = 'localhost'; // localhost will be used in most cases
// set these to your mysql database username and password.
$dbUser = 'user'; 
$dbPass = 'pass';
$dbDatabase = 'db'; // the database you put the table into.
$con = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to MySQL Server. Error: " . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($dbDatabase) or trigger_error("Failed to connect to database {$dbDatabase}. Error: " . mysql_error());
// Set up our error check and result check array
$error = array();
$results = array();
// First check if a form was submitted. 
// Since this is a search we will use $_GET
if (isset($_GET['search'])) {
   $searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']);
   $searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript.
   
   if (strlen($searchTerms) < 3) {
      $error[] = "Search terms must be longer than 3 characters.";
   }else {
      $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection.
   }
   
   // If there are no errors, lets get the search going.
   if (count($error) < 1) {
      $searchSQL = "SELECT title, link FROM db WHERE title LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'";

      $searchResult = mysql_query($searchSQL) or trigger_error("There was an error.<br/>" . mysql_error() . "<br />SQL Was: {$searchSQL}");
      
      if (mysql_num_rows($searchResult) < 1) {
         $error[] = "The search term provided {$searchTerms} yielded no results.";
      }else {
         $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

       

   
         }
      
      }
   }
}

function removeEmpty($var) {
   return (!empty($var)); 


}
?>

      <?php echo (count($error) > 0)?"The following had errors:<br /><span id=\"error\">" . implode("<br />", $error) . "</span><br /><br />":""; ?>
      <form method="GET" action="search?" name="searchForm">
         Search for title: <input type="text" name="search" value="<?php echo isset($searchTerms)?htmlspecialchars($searchTerms):''; ?>" />
        
         <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
      </form>

    <?php echo (count($results) > 0)?"Rezultate lucrari de licenta sau disertatie pentru {$searchTerms} :<br /><br />" . implode("", $results):""; ?>




 $results = array(); // the result array
         $i = 1;
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)) {
            $results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> Download - this is the button I want to link to the title results - and maybe other links too - <br /> ";

    $i++;

 
I would like the results to be displayed like this

Results for SearchItem:

Result 1
Download | Other link
Result 2
Download | Other link
etc.... or something like this.

So, how do I add the data from the link row into a text(Dowload), within an <a href> tag (well, at least I guess it would go this way) ?
My first tries (fueled by my lack of knowledge) where things like

$results[] = "{$row['title']}<br /> <a href="{$row['link']}">Download</a> <br /> ";

but I keep getting lots of errors, and then I don't know much about arrays and stuff (except basic notions);
So there it is. I am really stuck and can't seem to find any workaround for this.
Any suggestions? (examples, documentation, anything would do, really)
Thanks,
Radu

Hello,

I'm developing a website that asks the user to submit a keyword for a search. The results should display matches for this keyword, but also show matches for related keywords (in order of relevenace!).

I'm planning on building up a library of which search terms users use in the same sessions (e.g. if someone searches for "it jobs" and "php jobs", I'll know the terms are correlated), and I'll also measure the click-through rates of the items on the results list.

I've been spending all weekend trying to map out the design for this but it's proving incredibly complicated and I think the solution is likely to be on the internet somewhere already?!

Please could someone point me in the right direction if you've come accross this problem before?

Thanks a million,

Stu