search bar in php mysqli
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die("Error connecting to database: ".mysql_error());
/*
localhost - it's location of the mysql server, usually localhost
root - your username
third is your password
if connection fails it will stop loading the page and display an error
*/
mysql_select_db("tutorial_search") or die(mysql_error());
/* tutorial_search is the name of database we've created */
?>
<!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>
<title>Search results</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$query = $_GET['query'];
// gets value sent over search form
$min_length = 3;
// you can set minimum length of the query if you want
if(strlen($query) >= $min_length){ // if query length is more or equal minimum length then
$query = htmlspecialchars($query);
// changes characters used in html to their equivalents, for example: < to >
$query = mysql_real_escape_string($query);
// makes sure nobody uses SQL injection
$raw_results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles
WHERE (`title` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`text` LIKE '%".$query."%')") or die(mysql_error());
// * means that it selects all fields, you can also write: `id`, `title`, `text`
// articles is the name of our table
// '%$query%' is what we're looking for, % means anything, for example if $query is Hello
// it will match "hello", "Hello man", "gogohello", if you want exact match use `title`='$query'
// or if you want to match just full word so "gogohello" is out use '% $query %' ...OR ... '$query %' ... OR ... '% $query'
if(mysql_num_rows($raw_results) > 0){ // if one or more rows are returned do following
while($results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results)){
// $results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results) puts data from database into array, while it's valid it does the loop
echo "<p><h3>".$results['title']."</h3>".$results['text']."</p>";
// posts results gotten from database(title and text) you can also show id ($results['id'])
}
}
else{ // if there is no matching rows do following
echo "No results";
}
}
else{ // if query length is less than minimum
echo "Minimum length is ".$min_length;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
