I have recently ben working on a site where users can post whatever they want. Let's pretend 100'000 article get posted every month, it would be a pain to find what you need. This is why we have search bars on sites. Here's the part I understand: I know how to create a search bar and check every item in a database to see if it a match to the user's search term. Now for the part I don't understand: I do not understand how to retrieve every single item among thousands that are related to the search term and display them in a decent way. Allow me to elaborate. On google, it shows a certain amount of results per page and then you click a button to go to the next page. How can I re-create something like this?
include_once "mysql_connect.php";
$terms = $_POST["search"];
$fetchlast = mysql_query("SELECT `id` FROM allaccounts WHERE id=(SELECT MAX(id) FROM allaccounts)");
$lastrow = mysql_fetch_row($fetchlast);
$lastid = $lastrow[0];
for ($i=1; $i <= $lastid; $i++) {
$current= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts WHERE id=$i");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($current)) {
$articlename= $row[0];
$articleid= $row[1];
$articleurl= $row[2];
}
}
Here is what I have so far. This code skims through the entire database and stores the last entry it checked in a set of variables. I am going to have a different amount of returned articles for every different search term. How can I store the details of each one?
