Display search result
Posted on
16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by
admin
Hi!
I have a SQL database with information about albums and track (music).
Did you know?Explore Trending and Topic pages for more stories like this.
This is where the user inputs a search term(entersearch.php): Code: <form name="form" action="displaysearchalbum.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="getsearch" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="search album" />
</form>
<br />
<h2>Search for track</h2>
<form name="form" action="displaysearchtrack.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="getsearch2" />
<input type="submit" name="submit2" value="search track" />
</form>
And this is where the search result is displayed with links to a pages with more information about the album the user is interested in.
Code: <?php
// Get the search variable from URL
$var = @$_GET['getsearch'] ;
$trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable
// rows to return
$limit=20;
// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
{
echo "<p>Please enter a search...</p>";
exit;
}
// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
{
echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
exit;
}
//connect to your database
mysql_connect("xxx","xxx","xxx"); //(host, username, password)
//specify database
mysql_select_db("xxx") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using
// Build SQL Query
$result = mysql_query("SELECT albumid, albumname FROM album WHERE albumname like '%$trimmed%'");
//$query = "SELECT albumname FROM album WHERE albumname='$trimmed'";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<a href="albuminfo.php?albumid=' . $row[0] . '">' . $row[1] . '</a>';
echo "<p></p>";
}
?>
My problem is that I don't know how to transfer the information from displaysearchalbum.php to albuminfo.php about which album the information is going to be displayed. Preferably I would have a variable in albuminfo.php which contains the albumid in interest. I am a novice in php but think that the code I have so far written is working. Any ideas about necessary changes in the code I wrote or what kind of code I need for albuminfo.php would be helpful. I have not yet written any code for albuminfo.php because I am not quite sure how to.
No comments posted yet
Your Answer:
Login to answer
342
43
Other forums
mysql_real_escape_string
Let me preface this that I am very much a PHP noob, but I have some SQL training (not necessarily My
Big Problem!! Please help
Hi Guys,
Im making a website for a friend have encountered a really annoying problem. When ev
Bandwidth monitoring?
Hi guys,
I need a little information I have written a php app and I occurred to that I need
Displaying pictures
i have worked my way through storing images in directory and storing the location in mySQL db.Now i
registration form
first time posting. did some searches but didnt find exactly what i am looking for. dont flame cause
ctype() validation - allowing illegal characters
Hello,
I use ctype() to filter and validate a user form. However, I am trying to allow certain c
limitations on array_unique()
Does any one know what/how imitations are applied to array_unique? I have an issue where no matter h
Splitting Attributes
SQL> SELECT I_NAME, substr(I_NAME,1,instr(I_NAME,'O')) "First part",
substr(I_NAME, IN
ALV sum various columns problem
Hi all,
I'm doing a report on ABAP for a timesheet of the current month. The output i want is s
turning an array into a string then poping it into a db
Hi im just wondering how you get a requested array into a single string then pop it into the db so f