My member search works in Firefox but not in IE. What gives?

[craigjonson]

I have a search box on my website that searches the mysql database for members. I thought it was working great until I tried it in Internet Explorer.

 

This is the problem, in IE when the search is successful (member is found in database) it displays nothing. What is weird though, is that if the search fails, (member does not exist) it displays the error message as expected. If anyone could take a look at my code below, and let me know if you have any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

$query = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE username LIKE '%$word%'";

            $numresults=mysql_query($query);
            $num_rows=mysql_num_rows($numresults);

            if ($num_rows != 0)
              {
                  $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");
                   /* Display table with results */
                   echo "<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\"><br>";
                   for($i=0; $i < $num_rows; $i++){
                      $uname = mysql_result($result,$i,"username");
                      $id = mysql_result($result,$i,"member_id");

                      echo "<td><a href=\"profile.php?id=$id\">$uname</a>   </td><td><br>";
                   }
                   echo "</table><br/><br>";
              } else
                    echo "No members found.";

[waynew]

You're not using the <tr> (row) tag by the looks of things. You also have a <br> tag just after the <table> tag.

[ignace]

Don't use:

 

$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Couldn't execute query");

 

What usefull information does "Couldn't execute query" contain for your visitors?

 

Please post your entire code, what does $word contain?

[craigjonson]

Thanks waynewex, I'll try that.

 

$word contains a string. For example, $word = "craigjohnson".