less than Amateur needing advice

[Iamdbat]

Beginner and amateur in need of assistance

 

My Site - www.spareparts.ie (Spare Parts for Domestic Appliances)

 

I've gone as far as I can go on my own and need guidance

 

What I require is custom searches - I need to return records based on multiple criteria for example

 

1: Enter Make > 2: Enter Model > 3: Enter description

 

If anyone can offer any assistance - I would be grateful

 

Thanks

[Maq]

What exactly do you need help with?  You're asking for something very vague.  You're also in the "PHP Applications, Frameworks and Libraries > Third Party PHP Scripts" section.  I suggest segmented this thread into at least 2, one for MySQL, and one or more for your actual PHP coding help.

 

I'll move this to PHP Coding Help for now.

[Iamdbat]

I need some custom searches on my site - I don't know where to start 

[Maq]

You're going to need a form with your 3 input fields and upon submission have them processed and sanitized.  You have to query the database and have the results returned that meet the criteria.  So in essence you have 3 major parts:

 

1) The UI for the form with all these input fields and submit button.

2) A something to process the input server-server (perhaps a separate .php page) and query the database.

3) Something to handle the results.  Seems like you already have results working for the left navigation categories.  You may be able to tweak it to handle your new custom search, but that's impossible for me to tell.

[Iamdbat]

Thanks for the reply  - Can you recommend any reading material that will give me a head start in achieving what I'm after?