I have a search functinality on my site, and I got it working and I’m quite happy with it.
I got it working where you compared the keyword to one field in a table, in this case the title field.
But what I would like it to do is search for the keyword in the description field too, so I’m trying to do using the code below.
$query = "select stock_Id, stock_Name, stock_Description from stock where (stock_Name like \\"%$trimmed%\\") and (stock_Description like \\"%$trimmed%\\") order by stock_Id";
$numresults=mysql_query($query);
$numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults);
and this is the bit that is outputting the results, part of it anyway. I will show the full code at the end if anybody needs it.
while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$title = $row["stock_Name"];
$description = $row["stock_Description"];
echo " = <strong>$count</strong></p><ul id=searchUL><li id=searchLI><a href=#>$title</a> - ".substr($row['stock_Description'],0,150)."...</li></ul></p>";
$count++;
}
Its not returning an error, but it doesnt seem to be picking up the keywords in stock_Description.
Here is the lot:
// Get the search variable from URL
$var = @$_GET['q'] ;
$trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable
// rows to return
$limit=10;
// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
{
ob_start();
// ensures anything dumped out will be caught
// do stuff here
$url = 'http://www.x.co.uk;
// this can be set based on whatever
// clear out the output buffer
while (ob_get_status())
{
ob_end_clean();
}
// no redirect
header( "Location: $url" );
}
// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
{
echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
exit;
}
//connect to your database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE **
//mysql_connect("localhost","username","password"); //(host, username, password)
//specify database ** EDIT REQUIRED HERE **
//mysql_select_db("database") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using
// Build SQL Query
$query = "select stock_Id, stock_Name, stock_Description from stock where (stock_Name like \\"%$trimmed%\\") and (stock_Description like \\"%$trimmed%\\") order by stock_Id"; // EDIT HERE and specify your table and field names for the SQL query
$numresults=mysql_query($query);
$numrows=mysql_num_rows($numresults);
// If we have no results, offer a google search as an alternative
if ($numrows == 0)
{
echo "<p>Results</p>";
echo "<p>Sorry, your search: "" . $trimmed . "" returned zero results</p>";
// google
//echo "<p><a href=\\"http://www.google.com/search?q="
//. $trimmed . "\\" target=\\"_blank\\" title=\\"Look up
//" . $trimmed . " on Google\\">Click here</a> to try the
//search on google</p>";
}
// next determine if s has been passed to script, if not use 0
if (empty($s)) {
$s=0;
}
// get results
$query .= " limit $s,$limit";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");
// display what the person searched for
echo "<p>You searched for:<strong> "" . $var . ""</strong></p>";
// begin to show results set
echo "<p><strong>'$trimmed'</strong> search results";
$count = 1 + $s;
// now you can display the results returned
while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$title = $row["stock_Name"];
$description = $row["stock_Description"];
echo " = <strong>$count</strong></p><ul id=searchUL><li id=searchLI><a href=#>$title</a> - ".substr($row['stock_Description'],0,150)."...</li></ul></p>";
$count++;
}
$currPage = (($s/$limit) + 1);
//break before paging
echo "<br />";
// next we need to do the links to other results
if ($s>=1) { // bypass PREV link if s is 0
$prevs=($s-$limit);
print " <a href=\\"$PHP_SELF?s=$prevs&q=$var\\"><<
Prev 10</a>  ";
}
// calculate number of pages needing links
$pages=intval($numrows/$limit);
// $pages now contains int of pages needed unless there is a remainder from division
if ($numrows%$limit) {
// has remainder so add one page
$pages++;
}
// check to see if last page
if (!((($s+$limit)/$limit)==$pages) && $pages!=1) {
// not last page so give NEXT link
$news=$s+$limit;
echo " <a href=\\"$PHP_SELF?s=$news&q=$var\\">Next 10 >></a>";
}
$a = $s + ($limit) ;
if ($a > $numrows) { $a = $numrows ; }
$b = $s + 1 ;
echo "<p>Showing results $b to $a of $numrows</p>";
