Question

I’ve seen alot of tutorials on search with php and mysql, but im having trouble with generating a link with the search result. For example say i have an item called “item1” in my db and the user searhes for item , item1 should be returned as a link so the user can click the link to get more information about that product. Does anyone have any scripts , or snippets of code for how to acheive this?Thanks

Answer 1

that’s a simply example with no check and no control by datatype or query results. just start from it and do what you need…

<?php
//your db connection 

//col1 is where the id is saved
//col2 is the url
$qry="SELECT col1, col2 FROM table WHERE col1='".$_GET['var']."'";
$result=mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query($sql));

echo '<a href="'.$result['col2'].'">LINK</a>';
?>

edit:

if you want a direct redirect do this instead of echoing

header('Location: '.$result['col2']);