How to create a search form using PHP code example
Example 1: php sql search form
<?php
$localhost = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$dbname = "samueldb";
$con = new mysqli($localhost, $username, $password, $dbname);
if( $con->connect_error){
die('Error: ' . $con->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
if( isset($_GET['search']) ){
$name = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, htmlspecialchars($_GET['search']));
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE firstname ='$name'";
}
$result = $con->query($sql);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Basic Search form using mysqli</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<label>Search</label>
<form action="" method="GET">
<input type="text" placeholder="Type the name here" name="search">
<input type="submit" value="Search" name="btn" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary">
</form>
<h2>List of students</h2>
<table class="table table-striped table-responsive">
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>First name</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Address</th>
<th>Contact</th>
</tr>
<?php
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row['user_id']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['firstname']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['lastname']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['address']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['contact']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Example 2: search bar in php mysqli
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die("Error connecting to database: ".mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("tutorial_search") or die(mysql_error());
?>
<!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'];
$min_length = 3;
if(strlen($query) >= $min_length){
$query = htmlspecialchars($query);
$query = mysql_real_escape_string($query);
$raw_results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles
WHERE (`title` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`text` LIKE '%".$query."%')") or die(mysql_error());
' is what we're looking for, % means anything, for example if $query is Hello
if(mysql_num_rows($raw_results) > 0){
while($results = mysql_fetch_array($raw_results)){
echo "<p><h3>".$results['title']."</h3>".$results['text']."</p>";
}
}
else{
echo "No results";
}
}
else{
echo "Minimum length is ".$min_length;
}
?>
</body>
</html>