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hi everybody... i ran across the site and found TONS of information about what i want to do.... but i don't know what to take for my need.

here is what i want to do... a search engine for my website through the database.

you can see what i have done for now at this url

http://www.scale24-25.com/kitDB-site.php

this is the code

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 <?php

// include server parameters

  require('includes/configure-web.php');
 
?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>scale24-25.com</title>

</head>
 
<body>

<?php

// Make a MySQL Connection

mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_SERVER_USERNAME, DB_SERVER_PASSWORD) or die(mysql_error());

mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE) or die(mysql_error());
 
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

 ?>
 
<table width="100%" border="0">

  <tr>

    <td><label>
 
        <?php        //  debut drop down  ///

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT scale FROM kit ");

$options = '';
 
echo '<select scale="scale"><option>Scale</option>';
 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$thing = $row['scale'];

echo '<option>'.$thing.'</option>';

}

echo '</select>';

// fin dropdown ///?>
 
    </label></td>

    <td>

<?php        //  debut drop down  ///

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT manufacturer_kit FROM kit ORDER BY manufacturer_kit");

$options = '';
 
echo '<select manufacturer_kit="manufacturer_kit"><option>Kit manufacturer</option>';
 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$thing = $row['manufacturer_kit'];

echo '<option>'.$thing.'</option>';

}

echo '</select>';

// fin dropdown ///?>

    </td>

    <td>

        <?php        //  debut drop down  ///

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT manufacturer_reel FROM kit ORDER BY manufacturer_reel");

$options = '';
 
echo '<select manufacturer_reel="manufacturer_reel"><option>Reel manufacturer</option>';
 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$thing = $row['manufacturer_reel'];

echo '<option>'.$thing.'</option>';

}

echo '</select>';

// fin dropdown ///?>

    </td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td></td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>

           <?php        //  debut drop down  ///

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT engine_detail FROM kit ORDER BY engine_detail");

$options = '';
 
echo '<select engine_detail="engine_detail"><option><br />Engine detail</option>';
 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$thing = $row['engine_detail'];

echo '<option>'.$thing.'</option>';

}

echo '</select>';

// fin dropdown ///?>

    </td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

        <td><form name="input" action="kit_result.php" method="post">

Keywords: 

<input type="text" name="manufacturer_kit" value="" size="40">

<br>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">
 
</form> </td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td></td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

</table>
 
<p>you can choose to fill one OR more field. more field is fill more accurate the result will be.</p>

<p>

  <label></label>

</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

</body>

</html>

like you can see in my submit button i put a result.php file

it's this file i want to make but i'm stuck... really don't know how to make.

in fact you can make only 1 selection and press submit ex: you select the 1/24 scale and press submit it will return ALL kit in 1/24. If you select tamiya and honda it will return every kit honda made by tamiya etc...

also i want to see the kit number, the picture, year of production and of course the picture associate to this kit.

see below my field title of my database

kit_id = the ID of the kit 0, 1 , 2 ... auto increment
kit_number
description
manufacturer_ki t
manufacturer_re el
engine_detail
year_prod_kit
year_prod_reel
type
scale
image_id

so any help will be granted.

thank's in advance

sebastien

Aug 24 '09

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Dormilich

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@scaleautostyle
well, well, my dear pupil… ;)

this is indeed not an easy decision to make (for I’m not an SQL expert).

I guess you have to construct the SQL string according to the options on which you refine (you could in theory fetch all IDs which match each option separately and only use these that occur in every result set, but this is not good if you have huge data sets).
… looks like a reasonable way to go.

of course you should read CodeIgniter’s MySQL section (if you use CI). this should clear the matter, how you connect & query (mostly)

Aug 26 '09 #11

scaleautostyle

New Member

connecting to the database is not a problem. i don't understand how i can get the result. if you or somebody put a simple code on how to do base on my need.. ( with my field and file) it will be appreciate

ex: if someone click on the 1/24 from the scale drop down and click submit. what's the code need to return all the 1/24 found in the table kit field scale.

if he select tamiya from the manufacturer kit dropdown and honda from the reel manufacturer dropdown and then click the submit button.. what will be the code to return the info from the table kit field manufacturer_ki t and manufacturer_re el.

all my code can be found in the post above. base on this file what i have to change to work. may be i have to change some variable or other things. i read, read, and RE-read. but it look like if i ask you to read an instruction in chinese. you will read 100 time but never understand. except if i gave a traduction of a small text you will be able to compare the instruction with my text and so..

i hope someone can help me i really need an answer for my problem

yours and thank's in adavance for your help

sebastien

Aug 26 '09 #12

Dormilich

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@scaleautostyle
my problem here is, that I don’t know the CI mysql syntax.

@scaleautostyle

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 -- as a prepared statement

SELECT `kit_id` FROM table_name WHERE `scale` = ?

then you can use another prepared statement to fetch all the data

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 -- SQL

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE `kit_id` = ?
 
# PHP

foreach ($id_array as $id)

{

  // pseudo code, use CI’s syntax instead

  $pdos->execute(array(1 => $id))

  printResult($pdos->fetch());

}

@scaleautostyle

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 -- as a prepared statement

-- get 20 results from offset

SELECT `kit_id` FROM table_name WHERE `manufacturer_kit` = ? AND `manufacturer_reel` = ? LIMIT ?,20
 
# PHP (again, mostly pseudo code)

$pdos->execute(array(1 => "tamiya", 2 => "honda", 3 => 0));

$id_array = $pdos->fetchAll();

the output code is the same as above

Aug 26 '09 #13

scaleautostyle

New Member

still get the #$#%$% problem this is the link of the page

http://www.scale24-25.com/kitDB-site.php

for this page NO PROBLEM.. here it is... when you clic on the go button it supposed to return what the user select in the field. ex: you choose 1/24 and honda. a query will search the database under the column scale to find every 1/24 and under the constructor name to find all honda and them display the result.

this query have to be made in a separate files name kitDB-result.php.

but i REALY don't know what the query need to be.

if you can gave me an exemple of the query using my data it will be appreciate

yours

sebastien

PS: use this.

database name: sebastien
username: SAS
password: resinkit

sale column = scale
kit manufacturer = kit_manufacture r
engine = engine

thanks in advance

Sep 17 '09 #14

Frinavale

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Did you try the SQL statement that Dormilich suggested?
It looks "right" to me too, mind you I'm not a SQL expert...

Whenever I get stuck on SQL stuff I turn to my trusty database book or the w3cschools site. The W3CSchools site has examples on the Select Statement and the Where Clause that may help you get an idea of what you need to do....

Sep 17 '09 #15

RedSon

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SELECT `kit_id` FROM table_name WHERE `manufacturer_k it` = ? AND `manufacturer_r eel` = ?

This is a simple select statement. It should work no problem. Be aware however that you need to replace the ? with actual data. If that select gets the data you want then you can start to LIMIT the output and order it and do all sorts of fancy things. Just get the basic SQL down first.

The only problem is that you are selecting only one field of data "kit_id" if you want everything from the whole table "table_name " you would change kit_id to *.

Sep 17 '09 #16

scaleautostyle

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@RedSon

ok but how I can replace the ? by the selection of the user....

thanks in advance

sebastien

Sep 17 '09 #17

TheServant

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 mysql_query( "

    SELECT kit_id

    FROM table_name

    WHERE manufacturer_kit='$manufacturer_kit' AND manufacturer_reel='$manufacturer_reel'

    LIMIT 1

" );

Obviously you will need to define your $manufacturer_k it and $manufacturer_r eel variables. I made a string using " so that php variable can be included, and then I wrapped the variables in ' so that MySQL is happy. You could also have a multipart string, but that is easier. I also added a LIMIT 1, so that only one record is returned, and it stops searching after it gets that one. Look it up if you haven't used it before.

Sep 17 '09 #18

Dormilich

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@RedSon
You’ve got the intention wrong. this is not a simple SELECT statement to display the results, it is a SELECT statement for use as Prepared Statement. the "?" will be replaced in the execute() call. further this statement only fetches the kit_id, because for the result display, there will be used another Prepared Statement, which uses the selected IDs to get the complete data.

Sep 18 '09 #19

Dormilich

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@scaleautostyle

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$PDOStatement->execute(array(1 => "tamiya", 2 => "honda"));

Sep 18 '09 #20

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