Need help creating a simple php sql query page

Disead · August 15, 2014

OK, here it is. I have been trying to do this myself, but it has been driving me insane and I turn to professionals here for help.

I am a basic web developer for a company that I work for in other capacities. I have a reasonable understanding of HTML and that is about where my expertise ends. I am not typically a programmer, just a simple (extremely) part time designer that uses Muse and Dreamweaver when necessary.

However, recently my company has asked me to accomplish a task for their website. In plain English, they want a large database that exists currently as a CVS file made into a searchable web page. It is 21 columns by approximately 6,700 rows.

To explain what I need a little more technically, here are my ideas and where I have gotten to so far:

1. The company uses godaddy, into which I *believe* I have successfully imported the spreadsheet. I believe it is successful because through godaddy's SQL Control Panel (phpMyAdmin console), I can do the EXACT searches that the company needs, and it spits out the EXACT results that I need.

2. The end result needs to be a .php that I can upload to the website's root folder that can be then inserted into premade pages using:

<iframe src="SMQ.php" scrolling="yes" width="950" height="800"></iframe>

3. On the .php page, I need to have a way to log in to the SQL server and a simple search box built in that will allow the user to input a very simple search string consisting of no more than 4 numbers and 3 letters at a time. No buttons, no check boxes, just a search box.

3. This query then needs to be output as a nice data table, similar to this:

This in fact is a screenshot of a search I performed out of my SQL database, in phpMyAdmin using the column "Scott" for the search, and the number 226 as the search term. All column names are visible with the exception of the first column, entitled LINEID, made to be the key, and the output should not include the key but have everything else as above.

4. I can see what the simple line of php is that performed this task:

SELECT * FROM `SMQSQL` WHERE `Scott` = '226' ORDER BY `LINEID` ASC

but I can't figure out how the hell to get this incorporated to a .php search.

To sum it up, I need a .php page written that can connect to a SQL database, perform a data based search, and spit out a clean table when it is done.

I had accomplished this in the past using an import into google docs and using it to perform a search and result display via the following code built into a php called SMQ.php:

<!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>Example of Google Spreadsheet Data Visualisation</title>
</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" method="post" action ="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <label>
<input id="search" name="search" type="text" />
</label>
<label>
<input id="Scott #" name="Scott #" type="submit" value="Scott #" />
</label>

<img src="loading.gif" width="16" height="11" />
</form>
<p>
<?php
$search= $_REQUEST['search'];
if ($search > ''){ $search = $search;} else { $search = '';}
?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('visualization', '1', {packages: ['table']});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var visualization;
function drawVisualization() {

var query = new google.visualization.Query(
'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AronCwm9QPefdGpIUllscGgtLUJod2pOazc0bjU0cUE&usp=sharing');

query.setQuery('SELECT A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O ,P ,Q ,R ,S ,T WHERE (A) LIKE ("<?php echo $search; ?>") order by A asc label A "Scott #", B "Den", C "Color", D "Cond", E "40", F "60", G "70", H "70J", I "75", J "75J", K "80", L "80J", M "85", N "85J", O "90", P "90J", Q "95", R "95J", S "98", T "98J"');
query.send(handleQueryResponse);
}

function handleQueryResponse(response) {
if (response.isError()) {
alert('Error in query: ' + response.getMessage() + '' + response.getDetailedMessage());
return;
}

var data = response.getDataTable();

    visualization = new google.visualization.Table(document.getElementById('table'));
    visualization.draw(data, { page: 'enable', page: 16, pageSize: 16, legend: 'bottom'});
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization);
</script>

 <div id="table"></div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

But as you can see, this may not be the most secure thing in the world, plus we want to be able to expand it in the future and not be so simplistic, hence the need to switch to SQL.

Please let me know right away by contacting me at disead@gmail.com if this is something YOU might be able to help with. I'm sure for an experienced programmer, once you have the details from me that you need, it would take maybe 10 minutes to write. I don't have much, but I can pay a little bit for this one time job. If it ends up working out, I may be able to pay more down the line for more advanced options such as being able to do drop-down searches based on the column titled "ISSUE", as well as more things down the line as it grows.

Thank you so much, I hope to hear from someone soon!!!

Sign In

Need help creating a simple php sql query page

Recommended Posts

Disead

Link to comment

Browse

Activity

Important Information