Question

When I search a word “apple” the script is showing the result in the following order:

(1) appletree
(2) juiceapple
(3) apple

But I want to reorder the search result in the following order:

(1) apple
(2) appletree
(3) juiceapple

As you can see the above order is exactly what I want in which the result is showing according to the searched term which was “apple”

//get date
$button = $_GET['submit'];
$search = $_GET['search'];

if (!$button)
   echo "Please fill out the form";
else
{
    if (strlen($search)<=2)
   echo "The item you searched for was to small";
    else
   {
     echo "You searched for <b>$search</b> <hr size='1'>";

     //connect to database

     mysql_connect('localhost','wnumber','passowrd');
     mysql_select_db('wnumber');


 //explode search term
           $search_exploded = explode(" ",$search);
           foreach($search_exploded as $search_each)
{
    $str = mysql_real_escape_string(substr($search_each, 0, 4));
    //construct query
    $x++;
    if ($x==1) $construct .= "keywords LIKE '$str%'";
    else       $construct .= " OR keywords LIKE '$str%'";
}




     //echo out construct
    $construct = "SELECT * FROM word WHERE $construct";
    $run = mysql_query($construct);
     $foundnum = mysql_num_rows($run);

     if ($foundnum==0)
        echo "No results found.";
     else
     {

       echo "$foundnum results found.<p><hr size='1'>";

       while ($runrows = mysql_fetch_assoc($run))
       {


        //get data
       $meaning = $runrows['meaning'];
       $keywords = $runrows['keywords'];

        echo "<b>$keywords</b><br>
       <b>$meaning</b><br>

       }

     }



    }
}

Answer 1

Other than Ascending if your concern about the length means try LENGTH()

$construct = "SELECT * FROM word WHERE $construct order by LENGTH(`keywords`)