Spaces in a search box

[bk1984]

Hi all,

 

I am currently trying to fix the search on a website I am trying to develop. What happens is if you search for 'bin' a lot of products come up which contain bin within their product description, this is very annoying as you can imagine because things like post it notes will appear which are totally unrelated.

 

But when I add spaces into the the search for example (space)bin(space) it will come up with the correct products. I am baffled I have search through the code numerous times and just don't know how to do it. I am a beginner at PHP but hoping to quickly learn so I can get the website running functionally how everyone wants it.

 

the code is:

<?php

 

$app = $this->globals('khxc_display.app');

$eol = $this->globals('khxc.eol');

$formid = $app . '--minisearch';

$strid = $app . '--prodsearch--string';

$link = $this->link_namespace($app,'prodsearch',array());

$typeid = $app . '--prodsearch--type';

$cgi_value = '';

 

$this->xhtml_quickform_header($formid,$app,'prodsearchp',array());

 

print '<p class="hidden"><label for="' . $app . '--minisearch--' . $strid . '"';

print '>Search Term</label></p>' . $eol;

 

print '<p class="inline"><input class="khxc_quickfield" type="text" name="' . $strid;

print '" id="' . $app . '--minisearch--' . $strid . '" value="';

print $cgi_value . '" size="22" maxlength="100" /></p>' . $eol;

 

print '<p class="hidden"><input class="khxc_quickfield" type="text" value="EXACT" name=" ' . $typeid;

print '" id="' . $app . '--minisearch--' . $typeid . '" value="ALL" /></p>' . $eol;

 

$this->xhtml_quickform_footer($formid,'Online Store Search',1);

 

print '<a class="unfancy" href="' . $link . '" title="Advanced Search">Advanced Search</a>' . $eol;

?>

 

any help would be extremely appreciated

 

Thank you in advance

Ben

[bk1984]

Sorry not even said what I want to do, I want these spaces to be in automatically both before and after whatever word they type in

 

thanks

[scvinodkumar]

so you want to add spaces, right? if yes, then after submitting the form, add the space in the action file.

 

for example,

 

$search = " ".$_POST['search']." ";

 

 

[bk1984]

Thank you very much, I shall now go and have a go.

[bk1984]

Hi,  I am sorry to ask you this but what is an action file?

[scvinodkumar]

the filename you mentioned  in the form tag

 

<form name="formname" action="actionfile" method="post">