Creating a search form

[Pikachu2000]

That ain't gonna happen unless you change the logic of that script so that the query runs before that point.

[jirble2]

Ok, I'll look into that, but what about the problem of the blank and spacebar search.  I also discovered that you can only search one word or else the search won't return any results.  Any ideas?

[Pikachu2000]

If you want the search query to run only if something has been entered, all you need to do is check that the field isn't empty after trimming whitespace.

 

$_POST['search_term'] = trim($_POST['search_term']);
if( empty($_POST['search_term']) ) {
     // allow the query to run
} else {
     // don't allow the query to run, display error, or send back to search form, etc.
}