Display search result

[marky83]

Hi!

 

I have a SQL database with information about albums and track (music).

 

This is where the user inputs a search term(entersearch.php):

<form name="form" action="displaysearchalbum.php" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="getsearch" />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="search album" />
</form>
<br />
<h2>Search for track</h2>
<form name="form" action="displaysearchtrack.php" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="getsearch2" />
  <input type="submit" name="submit2" value="search track" />
</form>

 

And this is where the search result is displayed with links to a pages with more information about the album the user is interested in.

 

<?php

  // Get the search variable from URL
  $var = @$_GET['getsearch'] ;
  $trimmed = trim($var); //trim whitespace from the stored variable

// rows to return
$limit=20; 

// check for an empty string and display a message.
if ($trimmed == "")
  {
  echo "<p>Please enter a search...</p>";
  exit;
  }

// check for a search parameter
if (!isset($var))
  {
  echo "<p>We dont seem to have a search parameter!</p>";
  exit;
  }

//connect to your database
mysql_connect("xxx","xxx","xxx"); //(host, username, password)

//specify database
mysql_select_db("xxx") or die("Unable to select database"); //select which database we're using

// Build SQL Query  
$result = mysql_query("SELECT albumid, albumname FROM album WHERE albumname like '%$trimmed%'");
//$query = "SELECT albumname FROM album WHERE albumname='$trimmed'"; 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    
echo '<a href="albuminfo.php?albumid=' . $row[0] . '">' . $row[1] . '</a>';
echo "<p></p>";
}

?>

 

My problem is that I don't know how to transfer the information from displaysearchalbum.php to albuminfo.php about which album the information is going to be displayed. Preferably I would have a variable in albuminfo.php which contains the albumid in interest. I am a novice in php but think that the code I have so far written is working. Any ideas about necessary changes in the code I wrote or what kind of code I need for albuminfo.php would be helpful. I have not yet written any code for albuminfo.php because I am not quite sure how to.

 

 

[steveboj]

It's looking good so far, you're almost there.

 

This line "echo '<a href="albuminfo.php?albumid=' . $row[0] . '">' . $row[1] . '</a>';" makes the 'albumid' available to albuminfo.php.

So on albuminfo.php you just have to query the database to return all the data for that albumid, e.g. with a query like:

 

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM album WHERE albumid = '" . $_GET["albumid"] . "'");

[marky83]

Thanks a lot, going to see if I can get it to work later today.