I have been follwoing some php-mysql tutorial from a textbook. I should be able to retrieve some data from the "books" database, for example if i select author as searchtype and Michael as searchterm i should get some results since the author name is in the database. But, i am not getting any result after i submit the data from form. It just shows following:
Searh Results
Number of books found:
follwing is my html code for the form:
<html>
<head>
<title> Catalog Search</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Catalog Search</h1>
<form action="results.php" method="post">
Choose Search Type:<br />
<select name="searchtype">
<option value="author">Author</option>
<option value="title">Title</option>
<option value="isbn">ISBN</option>
</select>
<br />
Enter Search Term:<br />
<input name="searchterm" type="text">
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
</body>
</html>
I have a database named books and a php script named results.php:
<html>
<head>
<title>Search Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Search Results</h1>
<?php
// create short variable names
$searchtype=$_POST["searchtype"];
$searchterm=$_POST["searchterm"];
if (!$searchtype || !$searchterm)
{
echo 'You have not entered search details.
Please go back and try again.';
exit;
}
$searchterm= trim($searchterm);
$searchtype = addslashes($searchtype);
$searchterm = addslashes($searchterm);
// Create connection
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","myusername","mypassword","books");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$query = "select * from books where ".$searchtype." like '%".$searchterm."%'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$num_results = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo '<p>Number of books found: '.$num_results.'</p>';
for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo '<p><strong>'.($i+1).'. Title: ';
echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row['title']));
echo '</strong><br />Author: ';
echo stripslashes($row['author']);
echo '<br />ISBN: ';
echo stripslashes($row['isbn']);
echo '<br />Price: ';
echo stripslashes($row['price']);
echo '</p>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
What's wrong with the code? thank's in advance.
