add error message

[nayanm]

Hi all, I am working on a search script which searches article titles from the table. i have worked out the function, but have not been able to add an error message if the results are zero. my class file has this following function

 

public function search($table){

 

$search=$_GET['search'];

 

if ($this->databaseConnection()) {

$sql="SELECT * FROM $table WHERE title LIKE '%$search%'";         

$q      = $this->db_connection->query($sql) or die("failed!");

 

while($r = $q->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){

$data[]=$r;

}

return $data;

}

}

 

my results page has the following code

 

 

<?php

foreach($crud->search("articles") as $value){

extract($value);

echo <<<show

<p>" <a href="view.php?article_id=$article_id">$title</a> "</p>

<br>

show;

}

?>

 

 

would be highly obliged if anyone can help me out. apologies if this is a stupid question, but i am pretty much an amateur still.

 

regards,

 

Nayan

 

[joel24]

What is db_connection? Is it an instance of the PDO db link?

http://php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.rowcount.php

You should be able to use num_rows, i.e.

if ($q->fetchColumn()==0)
//throw error here