Question

I have a PHP script which works with jQuery to provide search suggestions. It pulls results from a MySQL database. However, I only want 5 results to display at once for the letter the user has typed but it seems all of the results appear. Why could this be?

My code is:

<p id="searchresults"><?php

$db=new mysqli('localhost','username','password','database');

if(isset($_POST['queryString'])){
$queryString=$db->real_escape_string($_POST['queryString']);
            if(strlen($queryString)>0){
                $query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM search s WHERE name LIKE '%" . $queryString . "%'");
                if($query){
                    while ($result = $query ->fetch_object()){
                        echo '<a href="/search/'.$result->name.'/1/">';                     
                        $name=$result->name;            
                        echo ''.$name.'';
                    }
                }
            }
        }
?></p>

I hope you can understand what I am trying to describe.

Answer 1

Change "SELECT * FROM search s WHERE name LIKE '%" . $queryString . "%'"

to "SELECT * FROM search s WHERE name LIKE '%" . $queryString . "%' LIMIT 5"

if you want to limit it to 5 results.