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joshgarrod

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Hi guys,

Thanks to TreeNode i now have my search script working great, however it returns the results really boringly. Can anyone post me and edit of the script here jazzed up a bit, would be great. Thanks, much appreciated.

<!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=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Search for spares</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<h2 class="style1">Search</h2> 
<form action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>" method="post" name="search" class="style1">
Seach for: <input type="text" name="find" /> in 
<Select NAME="field">
<Option VALUE="ID">Stock ID</option>
<Option VALUE="StockNumber">Stock number</option>
<Option VALUE="StockDescription">Stock description</option>
</Select>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>
<p class="style1">
  <? 
//This is only displayed if they have submitted the form 
if ($searching =="yes") 
{ 
echo "<h2>Results</h2><p>"; 

//If they did not enter a search term we give them an error 
if ($find == "") 
{ 
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; 
exit; 
} 

// Otherwise we connect to our Database 
mysql_connect("localhost", "sto21", "ixhp388") or die(mysql_error()); 
mysql_select_db("sto21") or die(mysql_error()); 

// We preform a bit of filtering 
$find = strtoupper($find); 
$find = strip_tags($find); 
$find = trim ($find); 

//Now we search for our search term, in the field the user specified 
$find_array = explode(" ", $find);
$find_sql = "";     // init
foreach ($find_array as $temp)
   $find_sql .= "LIKE '%$temp%' OR ";
$find_sql = substr($find_sql, 0, -3);  // throw away last OR statement

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM stock WHERE upper($field) $find_sql");

//And we display the results 
while($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
{ 
echo $result['ID']; 
echo " "; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['StockNumber']; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['StockDescription']; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['ItemPrice']; 
echo "<br>"; 
} 

//This counts the number or results - and if there wasn't any it gives them a little message explaining that 
$anymatches=mysql_num_rows($data); 
if ($anymatches == 0) 
{ 
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>"; 
} 

//And we remind them what they searched for 
echo "<b>Searched For:</b> " .$find; 
} 
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>

 

Josh

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hehe.. jazzed up a bit?? what do you mean?!

 

seriously, look at the code, find the part that outputs the information and edit it. I presume you know html, which is all that's really needed to change how it's displayed. No-one will help you just 'jazz it up', especially without any other information as to what you want.

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if you look at this bit:

//And we display the results 
while($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
{ 
echo $result['ID']; 
echo " "; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['StockNumber']; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['StockDescription']; 
echo "<br>"; 
echo $result['ItemPrice']; 
echo "<br>"; 
} 

that determines how the results are displayed. At the moment they're seperated by a new line: <br />

 

Just muck about with it. You can do anything you like html wise with php.

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