Search Users

[Tom10]

Hi, i've never created a search in php so i'm not exactly sure on the method you can use do create a search, basically i have created an admin panel and it has a list of users but if there are too many users i will need to create a search.

 

Please can someone tell me how i can do this?

 

Thanks in advance!

[CroNiX]

Depends on what you need to search for, but let's say you want to search for the users last name.

 

Create a form with an input for the last name. When submitting the form, just do a search for the last name in the db using WHERE lastname = 'lastname_from_form' to get an exact match, or WHERE lastname LIKE 'lastname_from_form%' to get all that start with lastname_from_form (the % at the end is a wildcard).

 

Then display the list of matched users

[Tom10]

Depends on what you need to search for, but let's say you want to search for the users last name.

 

Create a form with an input for the last name. When submitting the form, just do a search for the last name in the db using WHERE lastname = 'lastname_from_form' to get an exact match, or WHERE lastname LIKE 'lastname_from_form%' to get all that start with lastname_from_form (the % at the end is a wildcard).

 

Then display the list of matched users

 

Thanks, CroNiX i will try this!

[Tom10]

Hi i'm trying to echo all usernames from sql to html my code is working but it's echoing to the page as an array

$select = "SELECT username FROM users";
$stmt = $handler->prepare($select);
$stmt->execute();
        
if($stmt->rowCount())
{
                                    
$res = $stmt->fetchAll();
                                    
print_r($res);
                                    
}

[CroNiX]

Because $res IS an array of all usernames, which is what your query asked for by using fetchAll(). So you'd need to iterate over that array.

foreach($res as $user)
{
  echo $user['username'] . "<br>";
}

[Tom10]

 

Because $res IS an array of all usernames, which is what your query asked for by using fetchAll(). So you'd need to iterate over that array.

foreach($res as $user)
{
  echo $user['username'] . "<br>";
}

 

Ah i get you

[Tom10]

<a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) . '?page=manage&new='.hash('ripemd128', rand()).'' ?>"> + New User </a>

Hi i'm trying to load a create page by adding &new= to the url but it won't work if i create case 'new': ?