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How to make this: RED BOX

IF I Search "Mobile" and choose 2 letters. Then result is

Mobile

LG

 

IF

5 letters then Nokia

Must use LEN or something?

 

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<?php
    mysql_connect("localhost", "", "") or die("Error connecting to database: ".mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db("data") or die(mysql_error());
?>
 
<!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>Search results</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<form  action="search.php" method="GET">
Search:
<input type="text" name="query" />
 <input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<div>
<label>Search categories</label>
<select>
<option value="1">Search all</option>
<option value="2">2 letters</option>
<option value="4">3 letters</option>
<option value="5">4 letters</option>
<option value="6">5 letters</option>
<option value="7">6 letters</option>
</select>
</div>
<?php
    $query = $_GET['query'];
    $min_length = 2;
       
    if(strlen($query) >= $min_length){
         
        $query = htmlspecialchars($query);
        
         
        $query = mysql_real_escape_string($query);
        
         
        $raw_results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles
            WHERE (`title` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`text` LIKE '%".$query."%')") or die(mysql_error());
           
           if(mysql_num_rows($raw_results) > 0){
             
            while($results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results)){
                       
                echo "<p><h3>".$results['title']."</h3>".$results['text']."</p>";
                           }
             
        }
        else{
            echo "No results";
        }
         
    }
    else{
        echo "Minimum length is ".$min_length;
    }
?>
 </div>
</body>
</html>
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your <select> menu has two apparent problems -
 
1) you must give the select menu a name attribute so that the value will have a name when it is submitted.
 
2) your select menu is not inside your <form></form>, so it won't get submitted anyway.
 
your php code doesn't have anything in it to get, validate, and use the value from the length select menu, but once it does, you would probably want to use the mysql CHAR_LENGTH(str) function in your sql query to match only text field lengths that have the specific length that was selected - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/string-functions.html#function_char-length

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