Question

You guys probably don’t understand my question, I’ll try to explain further.

I have a site that displays the product information its name, id, price, quantity etc.
Now I have displayed it in a way of using $_GET variable.

Like for example if I want to click the product page then the link would be

http://localhost/InventorySystem/Employee/Tools/?Item=ProductList

I dont have to make another php page for that all I need is a get method and it will display the product information.

Now my problem is, How to I implement a search function with it? Is there a way for me to create a search function like

?Item=ProductList&Search=SearchTerm

I having a hard time how to do it. Please any advices.

Answer 1

basically add another variable in your query string, like you just showed in your example: ?Item=ProductList&Search=SearchTerm. and just do $_GET['Search'] to get the value, pass it to your mysql and implement a filter using the WHERE clause compounded with LIKE like so:

$searchkey = $_GET['Search'];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE column LIKE '%".$searchkey."%'");

This will return results containing the term you passed in $searchkey, e.g. if $searchkey = "ball" then volleyball, basketball, baller, basketballvolley are all valid matches.

EDIT:

Your html form should look something like this to be able to pass your required params in your query string:

<form method="GET">
<input type="hidden" name="Item" value="ProductList" />
Search: <input type="text" name="Search" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>