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Posted by Paul Lautman on 01/07/08 17:33
paul814@excite.com wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Right now I have a simple PHP page setup that takes whatever was
> entered into txtsearch on the previous page, it searches my DB by that
> word and brings back the whole record based on the word.
>
> So if I enter: ALPHA
> it will bring back this record: the alpha dog was there
>
> HOWEVER if I enter: ALPHA DOG or alpha dog
> (so if I enter more than one word) it does not find any records. How
> can I fix this so that if I enter ALPHA DOG it will find the record:
> the alpha dog was there
>
> Here is my code:
> ==============
> <?php
> $host="localhost";
> $user="root";
> $pass="";
> $db="productiondb";
> $con = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);
>
> $Search = $_POST["txtsearch"];
>
> if (!$con)
> {
> die('Unable to connect: ' . mysql_error());
> }
> mysql_select_db($db, $con) or die('Unable to connect: ' .
> mysql_error());
>
>
> $sql = "SELECT * FROM IT WHERE itcomments LIKE '$Search%' ";
> $rs = mysql_query($sql,$con);
>
> while($row=mysql_fetch_object($rs)){
>
> print "<div class=\"message\">";
> print " <h3 class=\"red\">" . $row->itdate . "</h3>";
> print " <h5 class=\"red\">" . $row->itname . "</h5>";
> print " <h4 class=\"red\">" . $row->itcomments ."</h4>";
> print "############### END OF RECORD ###############";
> print "</div>";
> }
>?>
>
> thanks for any help
I'm amazed!
Looking at your code I would not expect searching on "alpha" to bring back
"the alpha dog was there", since this does not begin with the word "alpha".
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