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Asked: 2026-05-29T11:22:24+00:00

I tried to read out data from a specific date from a MySQL database.

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I tried to read out data from a specific date from a MySQL database.
What I wanted is for PHP to get all of the data from the database within a specific date that I entered, but it seems that the script just got only the first row of data and left out the rest.

Can you please help me with code to achieve this.

<?php
    if(isset($_REQUEST['query']))
    {
        $searchQuery = $_POST['data-search'];

        //connceting to db
        $con = mysql_connect($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],'root','');
        if(!$con)
        {
            die("Error connecting: ".mysql_error());
            exit;
        }
        //selecting db
        $dbSelect = mysql_select_db("directory",$con);
        $query = "SELECT * FROM websites WHERE Date LIKE '$searchQuery'";
        //executing query
        $result = mysql_query($query,$con);
        if(!$result)
        {
            die("Could not connect: ".mysql_error());
        }
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
        {
            $searchOutput = "<html><body><table border=1><tr><td>Website Title</td><td>Website URL</td><td>About Website Content</td></tr>
                                <tr><td>".$row['Title']."</td><td>".$row['URL']."</td><td>".$row['Content']."</td></tr></table>";
        }
        $searchSuccess = "<p>Your Search was successful</p</body></html>";
        mysql_close($con);
        echo $searchOutput;
        echo $searchSuccess;

    }
    else{
        echo "Invalid";
    }

?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    In your script you replace $searchOutput every time it passes through the loop.

    Change:

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        $searchOutput = "<html><body><table border=1><tr><td>Website Title</td><td>Website URL</td><td>About Website Content</td></tr>
                            <tr><td>".$row['Title']."</td><td>".$row['URL']."</td><td>".$row['Content']."</td></tr></table>";
    }

    to:

    $searchOutput = "<html><body><table border=1><tr><td>Website Title</td><td>Website URL</td><td>About Website Content</td></tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        $searchOutput .= "<tr><td>".$row['Title']."</td><td>".$row['URL']."</td><td>".$row['Content']."</td></tr>";
    }

$searchOutput .= "</table>";

    BTW you should consider refactoring your code so that all the templating/formatting stuff is separated from the database logic stuff. It will make it easier to read and maintain in the long run.

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