well guys, i would be thankful as usual if you could help me plss
with this
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h2>Search</h2>
<form name="search" method="post" action="search.php">
Seach for:
<input type="text" name="find" /> in
<Select NAME="field">
<option value="std_id" selected>Student ID</option>
<Option VALUE="std_f_nm">First Name</option><br>
<Option VALUE="std_l_nm">Last Name</option>
<Option VALUE="std_major">Student Major</option>
<Option VALUE="std_hp">Student H/P</option>
<Option VALUE="std_email">Email</option>
<Option VALUE="std_c_hour">CR Hour</option>
<Option VALUE="std_pass">Password</option>
</Select>
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" />
</form>n here is the PHP
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<?
include ('access.php');
//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", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("fypms") 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
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM std WHERE upper($field) LIKE'%$find%'");
//And we display the results
while($result = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
echo $result['std_id'];
echo " ";
echo $result['std_f_nm'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_l_nm'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_major'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_hp'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_email'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_c_hour'];
echo "<br>";
echo $result['std_pass'];
echo "<br>";
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;
}
?>