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The document discusses connecting to a MySQL database and performing a search query on the database. Code is provided to connect to the database, select a database, escape user input as a security measure, perform a search query to find matches, and output the results. The search allows for partial matches by using SQL LIKE and wildcard characters.

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Search Coding2

The document discusses connecting to a MySQL database and performing a search query on the database. Code is provided to connect to the database, select a database, escape user input as a security measure, perform a search query to find matches, and output the results. The search allows for partial matches by using SQL LIKE and wildcard characters.

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2 php DALJEET SHERGILL

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


3 php DALJEET SHERGILL

$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 &gt;

$query = mysql_real_escape_string($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)){
4 php DALJEET SHERGILL

// $results = mysql_fetch_array($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>

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