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<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>testing</title>

</head>
<body class="holder">
<center>
<form action='results.php' method='get'>
	<input type='text' name='input' size='50' value='<?php echo $_GET['input']; ?>' class="search-field" /> 
	<input type='submit' value='Search' class="seach-button">
</form>
    </center>
    <br/>
    
<?php
	$input = $_GET['input'];//Note to self $input in the name of the search feild
	$terms = explode(" ", $input);
	$query = "SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE ";

	foreach ($terms as $each){
		$i++;
		if ($i == 1)
			$query .= "Firstname LIKE '%$each%' ";
		else
			$query .= "OR Firstname LIKE '%$each%' ";
	}
	// connecting to our mysql database
	mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '');
	mysql_select_db("database1");

	$query = mysql_query($query);
	$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
	if ($numrows > 0){

		while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
			$id = $row['ID'];
			$Firstname = $row['Firstname'];
			$Lastname = $row['Lastname'];
			$Year = $row['Year'];
			$Course = $row['Course'];
			echo "<h2>$Firstname $Lastname $Year $Course</h2>
			<br /><br />";

		}

	}
	else
		echo "No results found for \"<b>$input</b>\"";

	// disconnect
	mysql_close();
?>
</body>
</html>

im getting ' Undefined variable: i in line 23 ' ( $i++; )

 

can anyone help me solve this?

 

Thanks! :)

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