PHP Search Form

Muddy_Funster · April 22, 2012

nope, it's in place of the of the html, so:

<td><p class="LOC">Location:</p></td>
<td><div id="LC">
<?php
$locationSql = "SELECT id, area_name FROM Locations GROUP by area_name";
$locQry = mysql_query($locationSql) or die (mysql_error());
echo "<select name=\"areas\" multiple=\"multiple\" size\"=5\" style=\"width:150px;\">";
while ($location = mysql_fetch_assoc($locQry)){
echo "<option value=\"{$location['id']}\">{$location['area_name']}</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
?>
</div>

usman07 · April 23, 2012

thanks mate, when I do this it cuts of the bottom of my page, and all my other fields disappear.

You can check the link here: http://www.mumtazproperties.hostei.com/

Thanks.

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

take the capital off Locations, so it's all lower case:

SELECT id, area_name FROM locations GROUP by area_name

usman07 · April 23, 2012

oh, that amazing! do I need to do the same for all the other fields? replacing the HTML code with the PHP? and would the PHP code be any different? would I just change where it says 'location'.

Thanks so much for your continuous help.

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

not much benefit to replacing the rest of the form items. That should do it for the index page. So onto the search results page: form is still using action="insert.php" and method="get". change the method to method="POST" and then put the following at the top of insert.php

<?php
die(vardump($_POST));
//...rest of your code

post up what you get back and we'll go through it.

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Iv done what u said and I get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function vardump() in /home/a2221438/public_html/insert.php on line 28

I must of done something wrong.

Do i place this code at the top of the page or just before my php code?and is there not meant to be a closing php tag.

<?php
die(vardump($_POST));
//...rest of your code

This is some of my insert.php file

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>Mumtaz Properties</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="cutouts/style.css"/>
</head>

<body>
<!--Main Div Tag-->
	<div id="wrapper">

		<div id="header">
			<div id="logo"><a href="index.html"><img src="cutouts/Homepage/logo.png" alt=""/></a></div>
		</div>

<div id="navigation">
<a id="Home" href="index.php" title="home"><span>home</span></a>
<a id="Sale" href="forsale.html" title="for sale"><span>for sale</span></a>
<a id="Rent" href="forrent.html" title="for rent"><span>for rent</span></a>
<a id="Contact" href="contact.html" title="contact us"><span>contact us</span></a>
</div>

<div id="main">
<div id="results"><img src="cutouts/Homepage/results.png"></div>
<?php
if ($debug) { // a variable I set at script top for debugging ;-)
   echo "<!-- $sql -->";
} 
..............................CONTINUED

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

it was me again, it's var_dump() not vardump()

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Ahhh ok, I get this:

array(6) { ["areas"]=> string(1) "1" ["property_type"]=> string(4) "none" ["min_bedrooms"]=> string(1) "0" ["max_bedrooms"]=> string(1) "0" ["min_price"]=> string(1) "0" ["max_price"]=> string(1) "0" }

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Just another thing, I realised the drop down list brings up prices like £50,£60,£70 etc..how would i change it to £50,000 etc


<select name="min price">
	<?php
$priceLimit = 350;
for($minPrice = 40; $minPrice <= $priceLimit; $minPrice =( $minPrice+ 10)){
  if ($minPrice == 40){
    echo"<option value=\"0\" selected=\"selected\">No Min</option>";
  }
  else{
    echo "<option value\"$minPrice\">£$minPrice</option>";
  }
}
?>		</select> to

	<select name="max price">
	<?php
$priceLimit = 350;
for($maxPrice = 40; $maxPrice <= $priceLimit; $maxPrice =( $maxPrice+ 10)){
  if ($maxPrice == 40){
    echo"<option value=\"0\" selected=\"selected\">No Max</option>";
  }
  else{
    echo "<option value\"$maxPrice\">£$maxPrice</option>";
  }
}
?>

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

for the price thing, either just add the relevent no of 0's into the if condition, or, my preffered way would be to add them onto the string:

 echo "<option value\"$minPrice\,000">£$minPrice,000</option>";

(makes it easier to get the , in there)

I'm guessing from the var_dump that you didn't change over the Property Type so it was the same as the areas element?

usman07 · April 23, 2012

oh right am i suppose to change the property type to php coding as well? just like i did with 'location' would the php code be the same?

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

you would need to cahnge the query slightly, , and the <select> into that the php outputs, but yeah, the rest would efectivly be the same.

usman07 · April 23, 2012

For the pricing its not working and Im getting an error

This is what iv done:

echo "<option value\"$minPrice\,000">£$minPrice,000</option>";

This is the error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in /home/a2221438/public_html/index.php on line 160

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

"<option value\"$minPrice000\">£$minPrice,000</option>";

will fix that, also I have taken the ' out of the value = (having thought about it some this will be for the best)

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Thanks mate that works now. is there some way to adjust the width because the drop down's are a little out of my search box,

you can see it here: http://www.mumtazproperties.hostei.com/index.php

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

you can add style='width:**px;' to the submit tag to set the width, I think you are already doing it on the areas select...

Let's see what you coded for the property_type select

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Could the width be set like this?


<select name="min price" width="80px">
	<?php
$priceLimit = 350;
for($minPrice = 40; $minPrice <= $priceLimit; $minPrice =( $minPrice+ 10)){
  if ($minPrice == 40){
    echo"<option value=\"0\" selected=\"selected\">No Min</option>";
  }
  else{
    echo "<option value\"$minPrice000\">£$minPrice,000</option>";
  }

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

try it and see

usman07 · April 23, 2012

thanks I got it this worked

<select name="min price" style='width:80px;'>

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

it words on any tag, I thought that it was the submit button that was falling off. use it on a select, a table, a div, pretty much anything : <select name="name" style="width:80px;"> || <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Click Me" style="width:80px;" /> || <table border="1" style="width:80px;"> || <ul style="width:80px;">

you get the idea

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Yeah,thanks for that here is what i'v done for the php code for property_type. i think I have messed it all up tho.

<div id="ptype">
<?php
$propertySql = "SELECT id, area_name FROM property GROUP by type";
$proQry = mysql_query($propertySql) or die (mysql_error());
echo "<select name=\"radio\" multiple=\"multiple\" size\"=5\" style=\"width:150px;\">";
while ($property = mysql_fetch_assoc($proQry)){
echo "<option value=\"{$property['id']}\">{$property['type']}</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
?>
</div>

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

ahh, your using a table....try changing "Number of Bedrooms" to "No. of Bedrooms".

I'm off for today, research $_POST and have a look on my blog - ( http://muddy-dev.blogspot.co.uk/ ) there is a section on there that covers simple SQL using JOINS, your going to need to know that for the results page.

usman07 · April 23, 2012

Ok mate, thank so very much for your help!

just 1 thing u mention about changing to No. of bedrooms? where do i do that?

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

<td><p class="NBS">Number of bedrooms:</p></td> <<<<<<<--------here

Muddy_Funster · April 23, 2012

you also need to add an = sign to the last echo in this bit of code (compare with your last post of this code), and check the maxPrice one aswell

<select name="min price" width="80px">
	<?php
$priceLimit = 350;
for($minPrice = 40; $minPrice <= $priceLimit; $minPrice =( $minPrice+ 10)){
  if ($minPrice == 40){
    echo"<option value=\"0\" selected=\"selected\">No Min</option>";
  }
  else{
    echo "<option value=\"$minPrice000\">£$minPrice,000</option>";
  }

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