Thanks all, You people are awesome. I have it working but I still have 2 bugs First it is only showing the first record it finds with the search term, not all records associated with it.
Second it has to be spelled exactly right or I get 0 results. in other words if Jelly is spelled Jelly and I type jelly I get nothing but if I spell it Jelly it will return only the first record it finds what have I done wrong? if($search) { $query = "SELECT uid, id, image, iname, quantity, user, type, price FROM {$config["prefix"]}_shop WHERE iname LIKE '%$searchword%' ORDER BY iname"; $ret = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($ret)) { $user = $row['user']; $uiid = $row['uid']; $iid = $row['id']; $image = $row['image']; $iname = $row['iname']; $q = $row['quantity']; $type = $row['type']; $price = $row['price']; } if($searchword == $iname) { echo "<TABLE BORDER='0' WIDTH='95%' CELLPADDING='0' CELLSPACING='0'><TR>"; echo "<TD width=20%><a href='remove.php?id=$id&remove=yes'>$user</a></TD>"; echo "<TD width=40%><font size=2>$iname</font></TD>"; echo "<TD width=20%><font size=2><CENTER>$q</CENTER></font></TD>"; echo "<TD width=30%><font size=2><CENTER>$price</CENTER></font></TD>"; echo "</TD></TR></TABLE>"; } }else{ echo "<FORM METHOD=post ACTION='$PHP_SELF'>"; echo "Search Shops<BR><input type=text name=\"searchword\" value=\"\">"; echo "<BR><INPUT TYPE='submit' NAME='search' VALUE='Search'>"; } Thanks Jennifer "Jennifer Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi all, > > I have been trying to build a search script for my site that deals with only > one table in my db. > As Julie Meloni pointed out look in the MySQL manual for LIKE clauses I > can't seem to locate that clause in ether > manual. > Dan Brunner gave me this to go on: > > $query = "SELECT uid, id, image, iname, quantity, type FROM > {$config["prefix"]}_shop WHERE iname LIKE = '%$shopsearch% ORDER BY > iname'"; > $ret = mysql_query($query); > while(list($quantity)=mysql_fetch_row($ret)) > > But I can't seem to get this to work. I have never worked with LIKE before > and would appreciate any help on this. > > Thanks Julie and Dan for your time and effort. > > Thanks all for your time and help > Jennifer > > > -- > The sleeper has awaken > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/2002 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/2002 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php