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light87 · January 5, 2010

Hello:

I'm having a problem with a search form. The error message that I get when the submit button is clicked is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_CASE or T_DEFAULT or '}' in /home/content/PRIVATE/riskyjobs_riskybusiness_Database_TableSetup_riskyjobs_Table_Chapter9_Page546_search_final.php on line 69

The coding for the php file is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Risky Jobs - Search</title>

</head>

<body>

<h3>Risky Jobs - Search Results</h3>

<?php

// 1,5,10

// Filename:C:,HeadFirst_PHP_MYSQL,Chapter9,

// riskyjobs_riskybusiness_Database_TableSetup_riskyjobs_Table_Chapter9_Page546_search_final.php

// This function builds a search query from the search keywords and sort setting

function build_query($user_search, $sort) {

$search_query = "SELECT * FROM riskyjobs";

// Extract the search keywords into an array

$clean_search = str_replace(',', ' ', $user_search);

$search_words = explode(' ', $clean_search);

$final_search_words = array();

if (count($search_words) > 0) {

foreach ($search_words as $word) {

if (!empty($word)) {

$final_search_words[] = $word;

}

// Generate a WHERE clause using all of the search keywords

$where_list = array();

if (count($final_search_words) > 0) {

foreach($final_search_words as $word) {

$where_list[] = "description LIKE '%$word%'";

}

$where_clause = implode(' OR ', $where_list);

// Add the keyword WHERE clause to the search query

if (!empty($where_clause)) {

$search_query .= " WHERE $where_clause";

}

// Sort the search query using the sort setting

switch ($sort) {

// Ascending by job title case 1:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY title";

break;

// Descending by job title

case 2:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY title DESC";

break;

// Ascending by state case 3:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY state";

break;

// Descending by state case 4:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY state DESC";

break;

// Ascending by date posted (oldest first) case 5:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY date_posted";

break;

// Descending by date posted (newest first) case 6:

$search_query .= " ORDER BY date_posted DESC";

break;

default:

// No sort setting provided, so don't sort the query

}

return $search_query;

}

// INTERIM INTERIM INTERIM INTERIM

// This function builds heading links based on the specified sort setting

function generate_sort_links($user_search, $sort) {

$sort_links = '';

switch ($sort) {

case 1:

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=2">Job Title</a></td><td>Description</td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=3">State</a></td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=5">Date Posted</a></td>';

break;

case 3:

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=1">Job Title</a></td><td>Description</td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=4">State</a></td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=5">Date Posted</a></td>';

break;

case 5:

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=1">Job Title</a></td><td>Description</td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=3">State</a></td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=6">Date Posted</a></td>';

break;

default:

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=1">Job Title</a></td><td>Description</td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=3">State</a></td>';

$sort_links .= '<td><a href = "' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?usersearch=' . $user_search . '&sort=5">Date Posted</a></td>';

}

return $sort_links;

}

// NEW STUFF PART 1 NEW STUFF PART 1

// Grab the sort setting and search keywords from the URL using GET

$sort = $_GET['sort'];

$user_search = $_GET['usersearch'];

// Start generating the table of results

echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="2">';

// Generate the search result headings

echo '<tr class="heading">';

echo generate_sort_links($user_search, $sort);

echo '</tr>';

// Connect to the database

require_once('riskyjobs_riskybusiness_Database_TableSetup_riskyjobs_Table_Chapter9_Page546_connectvars_final.php');

$dbc = mysqli_connect('PRIVATE', 'PRIVATE', 'PRIVATE', 'PRIVATE');

// Query to get the total results

$query = build_query($user_search, $sort);

$result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query);

// NEW STUFF PART 2 NEW STUFF PART 2

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {

echo '<tr class="results">';

echo '<td valign="top" width="20%">' . $row['title'] . '</td>';

// changed $row['description'] . ' in the next line to substr($row['description'],0,100) . ' ...

// on 12,31,09

echo '<td valign="top" width="50%">' . substr($row['description'],0,100) . ' ...</td>';

echo '<td valign="top" width="10%">' . $row['state'] . '</td>';

// changed $row['date_posted'] in the next line to substr($row['date_posted'],0,10)

// on 12,31,09

echo '<td valign="top" width="20%">' . substr($row['date_posted'],0,10) . '</td>';

echo '</tr>';

}

echo '</table>';

mysqli_close($dbc);

?>

</body>

</html>

I would appreciate the help!!!

oni-kun · January 5, 2010

Please place your code within

tags for easier reading. What is line 69? From the looks of the error you're missing a semicolon or an extra bracket, but it'd help if I had the exact line.

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