joshgarrod Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragen Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshgarrod Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 ok, its just i wanted to know what sort of options i have, i am not too hot with html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragen Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshgarrod Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 so i replace echo "<br>"; with some html? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragen Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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