desperately need help with a form

[LearningScholar]

Hey guys,

 

As my name refers, I am a beginner at school. I had a project in which I had to make a database. The database contains movies which you can search for. However in the beginning, the results only appeared when the name of the movie was fully written. I solved it by using 'LIKE' in the query. But now I got the problem of results being shown before you searched for the results. The form is on the same file as the result. I could seperate them but in this case, it's no option (for some reasons which doesn't matter). Can this problem get solved in an other way?

 

This is the part of the code of my php file:

 

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="Website2.php">

 <div id="Zoekend">

  <p>

    <label for="textfield"></label>

    <label for="Zoek"></label>

    <input type="text" name="Zoek" id="Zoek" />

  </p>

  <p>

    <label>

      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="radio" id="RadioGroup1_0" />

      Genre</label>

    <br />

    <label>

      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="radio" id="RadioGroup1_1" />

      Naam</label>

    <br />

    <label>

      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="radio" id="RadioGroup1_2" />

      Jaar</label>

    <br />

    <label>

      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="radio" id="RadioGroup1_3" />

      Regisseur</label>

    <br />

    <input type="submit" name="Zoeken" id="Zoeken" value="Zoeken" />

    <br />

  </p>

</form>

</div>

<div id="Resultaat">

<h1> Zoekresultaten: </h1>

<?php

$zoekterm = $_POST['Zoek'];

$username = '1509506_dyon';

$wachtwoord = 'u2pv6stvk';

$host = 'fdb6.awardspace.net';

$database = '1509506_dyon';

mysql_connect($host, $username, $wachtwoord);

mysql_select_db ($database);

$sql = "SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE Genre LIKE '%$zoekterm%'";

$resultaat = mysql_query ($sql);

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultaat) ) {

echo $row['Genre'] . " - " . $row['Naam'] . " - " . $row ['Jaar'] . " - " . $row ['Regisseur'] .'<br>' ;

}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE Naam LIKE '%$zoekterm%'";

$resultaat = mysql_query ($sql);

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultaat) ) {

echo $row['Genre'] . " - " . $row['Naam'] . " - " . $row ['Jaar'] . " - " . $row ['Regisseur'].'<br>' ;

}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE Jaar LIKE '%$zoekterm%'";

$resultaat = mysql_query ($sql);

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultaat) ) {

echo $row['Genre'] . " - " . $row['Naam'] . " - " . $row ['Jaar'] . " - " . $row ['Regisseur'].'<br>' ;

}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE Regisseur LIKE '%$zoekterm%'";

$resultaat = mysql_query ($sql);

while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultaat) ) {

echo $row['Genre'] . " - " . $row['Naam'] . " - " . $row ['Jaar'] . " - " . $row ['Regisseur'] .'<br>';

}

?>

</div>

[Barand]

If that is real password, change it.

[Barand]

Check to see if a search value has been posted. Only process the second part of your script if there is a posted value.

[LearningScholar]

The site contains a login system. you'll get to this file after you succesfully logged in. Might that be an issue?

[Barand]

If you load this page without a search term it will execute a search WHERE ... LIKE '%%', which is all records

[LearningScholar]

That's the problem. How can I fix this?

[Barand]

Check to see if a search value has been posted. Only process the second part of your script if there is a posted value.

[LearningScholar]

When you're logged in and redirected to this form it automatically executes the criteria as nothing and it shows everything fromm the database. I would like to have it search only after you clicked on the search button

[LearningScholar]

Do you know a code which only gives results if a value has been posted?

[boompa]

if (isset($_POST['Zoeken'])) {
    // code
}

[Barand]

There are some other things you need to fix.

• Radio buttons need different values. All yours have a value of "radio"
• You don't change the search depending on the button selected (not that you could with those values)
• You are using mysql_xxxx() functions which are about to be removed from PHP.

Try something like this

<html>
<body>
 
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
 <div id="Zoekend">
  <p>
    <label for="Zoek"></label>
    <input type="text" name="Zoek" id="Zoek" />
  </p>
  <p>
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="1" id="RadioGroup1_0" />
      Genre</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="2" id="RadioGroup1_1" checked="checked"/>
      Naam</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="3" id="RadioGroup1_2" />
      Jaar</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="radio" name="RadioGroup1" value="4" id="RadioGroup1_3" />
      Regisseur</label>
    <br />
    <input type="submit" name="Zoeken" id="Zoeken" value="Zoeken" />
    <br />
  </p>
 </div>
</form>


<div id="Resultaat">
<h1> Zoekresultaten: </h1>
<?php
//
// if no search attempt then we don't want to process the results
//
if (isset($_POST['Zoek']) && trim($_POST['Zoek'])!='' ) {
    
    $zoekterm = $_POST['Zoek'];
    $username = '1509506_dyon';
    $wachtwoord = '****';                  // deleted for your protection
    $host = 'fdb6.awardspace.net';
    $database = '1509506_dyon';

    $db = new mysqli($host, $username, $wachtwoord, $database);

    $fields = array (
                1 => 'Genre',
                2 => 'Naam',
                3 => 'Jaar',
                4 => 'Regisseur'
                );
    $field = $fields[$_POST['RadioGroup1']];

    $sql = "SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE $field LIKE '%$zoekterm%'";
    $resultaat = $db->query ($sql);
    if ($resultaat->num_rows > 0) {
        while ( $row = $resultaat->fetch_assoc() ) {
            echo $row['Genre'] . " - " . $row['Naam'] . " - " . $row ['Jaar'] . " - " . $row ['Regisseur'] .'<br>' ;
        }
    }
    else {
        echo "No matching results found";
    }
}
else {
    echo "No search";
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

[LearningScholar]

Thank you so much! I've staring for hours at my code trying to find a way to make it work. And also thanks for the checkboxesproblem you solved. I didn't even noticed it myself XD