[need help in partial string search - advance for me probably a piece of cake]

it works like a charm, thanks again!
greetings from belgrade

[need help in partial string search - advance for me probably a piece of cake]

the point is that i dont have access to database yet but hopefully will get is soon, ok i will try you suggestion and get back to you.
thanks man, for looking into it

[Improving my search script]

did you make this to work,i mean the search thing..i need this badly too

[need help in partial string search - advance for me probably a piece of cake]

i will look into databases when i make this to work first
i tried this approach but this doesnt work
plese help

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$titleValue=$_GET['titleValue'];

for($i=0;$i<$total_books;$i++){
if(strcasecmp($titleValue,$titles[$i][0])==0) {
//this is the place we have to add partial match
if(stristr($titles[$i][0],$titleValue) === TRUE) {
$book_title=$titles[$i][0];
$book_price_us=$titles[$i][1];
$book_price_uk=$titles[$i][2];
$book_isbn=$titles[$i][3];
$book_author=$titles[$i][4];
$book_year=$titles[$i][5];
$book_discount=$titles[$i][6];
$book_category=$titles[$i][7];
$book_description=$titles[$i][8];
$book_image=$titles[$i][9];
$book_link=$titles[$i][10];
$book_link2=$titles[$i][11];

$books [] = array('title' => $book_title,
  'USprice' => $book_price_us,
  'UKprice' => $book_price_uk,
  'isbn' => $book_isbn,
  'author' => $book_author,
  'year' => $book_year,
  'discount' => $book_discount,
  'category' => $book_category,
  'description' => $book_description,
  'image' => $book_image,
  'link' => $book_link,
  'link2' => $book_link2);  
$m++;
}
}
}

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[need help in partial string search - advance for me probably a piece of cake]

hi, guys, or should i say freaks  ;D
i need help though...i have tried to make a script for searching the books and its related data
i came up with something but it lacks one major feature, the user have to supply the exact name of the book, but that is just bad
you will agree i am sure. it doesnt have to be case sensitive but this is just what i need badly. i am not a php freak but want to become one in a time, since that happen i will have to bother you  ;D

here is the script i came up so far (it doesnt use sql yet, database is just simple two dimensional array):

[code]
<?php
  $books = array();
  $total_books=4;
  $m=0;  //number of matches

  //array 'title' 0,  'price us 1 and uk 2 ','ISBN' 3, 'author' 4, 'year' 5, discount 6, category 7,description 8 ,image 9 , link 10
  $titles=array(array('book title 1',10,10,'1-23456-789-0','author name','2006','55%','Religion','description','1-23456-789-0.jpg','http://www.somelink.com/','http://www.somelink2.com/'),
                array('book title 1',10,10,'1-23456-789-0','author name','2006','55%','Religion','description','1-23456-789-0.jpg','http://www.somelink.com/','http://www.somelink2.com/'),
                array('book title 1',10,10,'1-23456-789-0','author name','2006','55%','Religion','description','1-23456-789-0.jpg','http://www.somelink.com/','http://www.somelink2.com/'),
                array('book title 1',10,10,'1-23456-789-0','author name','2006','55%','Religion','description','1-23456-789-0.jpg','http://www.somelink.com/','http://www.somelink2.com/'));

$titleValue=$_GET['titleValue'];  //the title name passed from other *.php

//check is there any match
for($i=0;$i<$total_books;$i++){
//ignore case sensitive strings
        if(strcasecmp($titleValue,$titles[$i][0])==0) {
              //fill out our arrray with matches
             
$book_title=$titles[$i][0];
$book_price_us=$titles[$i][1];
$book_price_uk=$titles[$i][2];
$book_isbn=$titles[$i][3];
$book_author=$titles[$i][4];
$book_year=$titles[$i][5];
$book_discount=$titles[$i][6];
$book_category=$titles[$i][7];
$book_description=$titles[$i][8];
$book_image=$titles[$i][9];
$book_link=$titles[$i][10];
$book_link2=$titles[$i][11];

$books [] = array('title' => $book_title,
  'USprice' => $book_price_us,
  'UKprice' => $book_price_uk,
  'isbn' => $book_isbn,
  'author' => $book_author,
  'year' => $book_year,
  'discount' => $book_discount,
  'category' => $book_category,
  'description' => $book_description,
  'image' => $book_image,
  'link' => $book_link,
  'link2' => $book_link2);  
$m++;  //track number of matches
}
}


//this value will be pased back in order to see is there any matches
if($book_title==""){
$query_match='0';
}
else
$query_match='1';


//make xml to pass back
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
$dom=new DOMDocument();
$response=$dom->createElement('response');//root
$dom->appendChild($response);

$books_dom=$dom->createElement("books");

foreach( $books as $book )
  {
  $b = $dom->createElement( "book" );
 
  $title = $dom->createElement( 'title' );
  $title->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['title'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $title );
 
  $USprice = $dom->createElement( "USprice" );
  $USprice->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['USprice'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $USprice );
 
  $UKprice = $dom->createElement( "UKprice" );
  $UKprice->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['UKprice'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $UKprice );
 
  $isbn = $dom->createElement( "isbn" );
  $isbn->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['isbn'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $isbn );
 
  $author = $dom->createElement( "author" );
  $author->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['author'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $author );
 
  $year = $dom->createElement( "year" );
  $year->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['year'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $year );
 
  $discount = $dom->createElement( "discount" );
  $discount->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['discount'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $discount );
 
  $category = $dom->createElement( "category" );
  $category->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['category'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $category );
 
  $description = $dom->createElement( "description" );
  $description->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['description'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $description );
 
  $image = $dom->createElement( "image" );
  $image->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['image'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $image );
 
  $link = $dom->createElement( "link" );
  $link->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['link'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $link );
 
  $link2 = $dom->createElement( "link2" );
  $link2->appendChild(
  $dom->createTextNode( $book['link2'] )
  );
  $b->appendChild( $link2 );
 
  $books_dom->appendChild( $b );
  }
 
$response->appendChild($books_dom);
 
$match=$dom->createElement('match');
$matchText=$dom->createTextNode($query_match);
$match->appendChild($matchText);

$number_of_matches=$dom->createElement('number_of_matches');
$number_of_matches_text=$dom->createTextNode($m);
$number_of_matches->appendChild($number_of_matches_text);
 
$books_dom->appendChild($match);
$books_dom->appendChild($number_of_matches);

$xmlString=$dom->saveXML();
echo $xmlString;

?>
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