Hi everyone.
I want to add a advanced search function to a demo site I'm doing but have no idea where to begin on this. I'm using a MySQL Db for all the site and PHP to pull data from DB.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards
Hi everyone.
I want to add a advanced search function to a demo site I'm doing but have no idea where to begin on this. I'm using a MySQL Db for all the site and PHP to pull data from DB.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards
Jump to PostAdvance search depends on your records to be searched.
so first make a list of fields and options which are there in your search result.
Advance search depends on your records to be searched.
so first make a list of fields and options which are there in your search result.
Since posting this message, I was surprised and pleased to find a freeware search engine that I got going fine that can search only only one column. Most people are not familiar with botanical names but would rather search by common names, so that is what I chose to set the search at. Now the website is much more user friendly toward the majority of people that are likely to visit it.
I have thought that I could add a drop down list of columns to pick from, such as
searching by botanical name, common names, location and so on. Having this as a variable that way would make it easy to adapt the present program to expand to allow choices of what kind of search can be done.
The same day I found this search engine, I also found another more versatile search engine that will search through all the fields that are listed during installation.
This is closer to being a site universal search engine. I have come close to getting it to work but not quite. It has a lot of "this ------>" type statements and I have never felt comfortable understanding what they all refer to. If I can get some help with this and get it working, that would be another large advancement in the development of the website. If someone would say they wouldn't mind helping, I would be glad to post the code for it.
I have seen many websites that seem to be able to search throughout the website, not just one field or one table. Getting this far has been a big change in the right direction. Being able to search in multiple MySQl tables without users having to choose which column would be the final and most comprehensive search that I would need to offer. If I got that second search engine going ok, I could experiment to
see if it could work with field names concatenated with table and field names. That might work.
I just relocated the address to the Design Place search engine:
http://www.designplace.org/scripts.php?page=1&c_id=25
This is the one that searches multiple columns. I include this address also since it could be a useful search engine for others, too.
I'll wait to see if anyone would care to help get past the errors I have had in trying to install this package :-) .
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