error messages not echoed.

[Bazzaah]

Hey there

 

I've adapted the search code from the tutorial on this site here

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/simple-sql-search

 

for a project I've been working on but have an error.

 

The search works just fine but if either of the messages I've included are tripped (zero search characters or nothing found) then I get a blank screen and the error message is not echoed. (The vanilla code works fine - the error has arisen through the changes I needed to make).

 

I don't know why this is happening and would appreciate some help please.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

session_start();

// check session variable

if (isset($_SESSION['first_name']))
  {
include ('includes/header_loggedin.html');

//db connection info deleted  

$error = array();

//get search term, strip it

if (isset($_GET['search'])) {
$searchTerms = trim($_GET['search']);
$searchTerms = strip_tags($searchTerms); // remove any html/javascript.

   
   if (strlen($searchTerms) < 1) {
      $error[] = 'Search terms must be longer than 1 character.';
   }else {
      $searchTermDB = mysql_real_escape_string($searchTerms); // prevent sql injection.
   }
   
//formulate query
   if (count($error) < 1) {
$query = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE row LIKE '%{$searchTermDB}%'";

//make the query

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

//display the results
if (mysql_num_rows($result) < 1) {
         $error[] = "Your search term yielded no results.";
      } else {
	while ($endresult = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		echo '<br />';
		echo 'This is what we found';
		echo '<br />';
      echo '<a href="newpage.php?w=' . $endresult['row'] . '">' . $endresult['row'] . '</a>';
  		}	
}
}
}
} 

[Bazzaah]

Sorry to waste your time - I have it resolved.

 

I omitted the line of code from the search form that echoes either message.

 

D'oh.