gazzwi86
11-22-2006, 02:03 AM
Hi,
Im creating a search page that will depending on the field selected search a different database but ive sort of lost my way and im not sure what to do. I want it to search for either users, images, videos, audios, games or forum titles. as i understand it the code i have should work so far but i cant even get it to serach at the mo. it just refreshs the page. anyone no y?
heres the code:
<?
//This is only displayed if they have submitted the form
if ($searching =="yes")
{
echo "<h2>Results</h2><p>";
//If they did not enter a search term we give them an error
if ($find == "")
{
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term";
exit;
}
// Otherwise we connect to our Database
mysql_connect("*", "*", "*") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("TheBuzzo") 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
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM upper($field) LIKE'%$find%' WHERE * ");
//And we display the results
while($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
echo $result['audios'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['games'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['pics'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['videos'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['forum_question'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['users'];
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
}
//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 ($anymatches == 0)
{
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>";
}
//And we remind them what they searched for
echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find;
}
?>
<!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=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>- Search The Buzz Online -</title>
</head>
<body> <h2>Search</h2>
<form name="search" method="post" action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>">
Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in
<Select NAME="field">
<Option VALUE="audios">Audio File</option>
<Option VALUE="games">Game File</option>
<Option VALUE="pics">Image File</option>
<Option VALUE="videos">Video File</option>
<Option VALUE="forum_question">Forum Title</option>
<Option VALUE="users">User</option>
</Select>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
cheers all
Im creating a search page that will depending on the field selected search a different database but ive sort of lost my way and im not sure what to do. I want it to search for either users, images, videos, audios, games or forum titles. as i understand it the code i have should work so far but i cant even get it to serach at the mo. it just refreshs the page. anyone no y?
heres the code:
<?
//This is only displayed if they have submitted the form
if ($searching =="yes")
{
echo "<h2>Results</h2><p>";
//If they did not enter a search term we give them an error
if ($find == "")
{
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term";
exit;
}
// Otherwise we connect to our Database
mysql_connect("*", "*", "*") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("TheBuzzo") 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
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM upper($field) LIKE'%$find%' WHERE * ");
//And we display the results
while($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
echo $result['audios'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['games'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['pics'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['videos'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['forum_question'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['users'];
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
}
//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 ($anymatches == 0)
{
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>";
}
//And we remind them what they searched for
echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find;
}
?>
<!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=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>- Search The Buzz Online -</title>
</head>
<body> <h2>Search</h2>
<form name="search" method="post" action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>">
Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in
<Select NAME="field">
<Option VALUE="audios">Audio File</option>
<Option VALUE="games">Game File</option>
<Option VALUE="pics">Image File</option>
<Option VALUE="videos">Video File</option>
<Option VALUE="forum_question">Forum Title</option>
<Option VALUE="users">User</option>
</Select>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
cheers all