Question

I’m trying to match users with a certain description in one table to a general search description in another table. I have a foreach that contains the general descriptions and created a query within the foreach hoping to pull out the user that best fits that general description.

Problem is I’m not getting any results when I echo out the username. I get results when I echo out result[‘title’].

if (empty($errors)){
  $results = search_results($keywords);
  $results_num = count($results);

  echo '<p><strong style ="font-size:145%;font-family:georgia;"> Titles: </strong></p> ';

  foreach ($results as $result){
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT username, title from clothing 
    WHERE description LIKE '%$results%'");
    while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)){
    $username=$row['username'];                     
    $title=$row['title'];
    echo $username;
    }
    echo '<p> <strong>',$result['title'],'</strong> </p>';
  }

}

I would be very grateful to know why my user is not getting echoed out. Also any programming tips would be greatly appreciated for I am always learning and I want to always find ways to improve.

Answer 1

You need to replace $results with $result in your query:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT username, title from clothing WHERE description LIKE '%$result%'");