Okay, thank you all again for your input, I have tried a number of suggestions
to work out what is happening. Just to reiterate here is the search form which
is on a different page.
Search by Client ID
shown below is the datasearch.php page
';
echo $term . '';
$result = mysql_query($q
David, Sascha thank you both for your help. Using the query
$query = "SELECT * FROM clients WHERE clientid = '$term'";
echo $query . '';
$result = mysql_query($query);
as suggested printed out the below
SELECT * FROM clients WHERE clientid = ''
This seems to indicate that it is not seeing
Hello Everyone
Apologies if I have not done this in the correct way, this is the first time I
have turned to your for help so I am unaware if I have to submit this according
to a certain protocol, if that is the case then please let me know and I will
go through the proper channels. My probl