Question

The query below will be used a search script. For some reason it won’t return all results where either condition is true. What am i doing wrong?

$sql = "SELECT name, id_code from codes WHERE name LIKE '%$q%' OR id_code 
LIKE '%$q%'";

$result = mysql_query($sql);

$query = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Error: ".mysql_error());

$num_rows1 = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($result == "")
{
echo "";
}
echo "";


$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

if($rows == 0)
{
print("<div id=norequests>No results for <strong>$q</strong></div>");

}
elseif($rows > 0)
{
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{

$name = htmlspecialchars($row['name']);
$code = htmlspecialchars($row['id_code']);

}

print("$code: $name<br /> <br />");
}

}


else{
    echo '<div id="error">No results for $q.</div>';
}

Answer 1

You are printing outside of while. Which means, no matter how many results you have, only the one will be printed.

Either print inside the loop

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
    $name = htmlspecialchars($row['name']);
    $code = htmlspecialchars($row['id_code']);
    print("$code: $name<br /> <br />");
}

or collect the variables in an array while looping and use them after the loop as you like

$result_array = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
    $name = htmlspecialchars($row['name']);
    $code = htmlspecialchars($row['id_code']);

    $result_array[] = array(
        'name' => $name,
        'code' => $code
    );
}
print_r($result_array);