Question

I’d like to get some help with my search script. A little about the site: I have registered users and when they register they select their user type (ie Nanny, Homecare, Daycare). Right now I have a search bar and visitors can input their zip code and the results page shows everything in the database with that zip code.
Current form:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="results.php">
    <p>
      <label>Search for<input type="text" name="Search" id="Search"  /></label>
      <label>
        <select name="Field" id="Field">
          <option value="Zip">Zip</option>   
        </select>
      </label>
      <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Search" />
   </p>

What I would like to do is to have it where users enter their zip code and select Nanny, Homecare, or Daycare from a drop down and the results shows only that type in the search results instead on everything within that zip.

How I want the form to look:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="results.php">
    <p>
      <label>Search for<input type="text" name="Search" id="Search"  value="Zip" /></label>
      <label>
        <select name="Field" id="Field">
          <option value="Nanny">Nanny</option>
          <option value="Homecare">Homecare</option>
          <option value="Childcare">Childcare</option>   
        </select>
      </label>
      <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Search" />
    </p>
</form>

The php:

<?php
require_once('scripts/_config.php');
if(isset($_GET['Field'])){
$searchQ1=mysql_query("SELECT `First_Name`,`Last_Name`,`Nanny`,`Homecare`,`Childcare`,`City`,`State`,`Zip`,`userID` FROM `sys_profile` WHERE `".$_GET['Field']."` LIKE '".$_GET['Search']."';");
}else{
$searchQ1=mysql_query("SELECT `First_Name`,`Last_Name`,`Nanny`,`Homecare`,`Childcare`,`City`,`State`,`Zip`,`userID` FROM `sys_profile` WHERE `userID`!=0;");
}
?>

How do I change the php so that the search results displays only nannies within the entered zip, or childcare in the entered zip, etc? Right now the php shows everything in that zip and when I change the form to the second example it still doesn’t work because I’m not sure how to adjust the search query.

Answer 1

You have to include the second constraint with an AND inside the query. Compare the Zip, that is contained in the $_GET['Search'] with the Zip file in the DB, and the selected value form the dropdown with the user type in the db.

How does your DB look like? Especially, how is the user type information saved? Guessing from your posted query, these are boolean values (Nanny, Homecare, Childcare)?

EDIT: When Nanny, Homecare and Childcare are boolean values, a possible query would be:

$sql = "SELECT First_Name,Last_Name, City, State, userID FROM sys_profile WHERE Zip = " . $_GET['Search'] . " AND $_GET['Field'] = true";

So you check if the Zip matches the search string, AND if the selected drop down item has the value true.