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I have the following code to search my database, I would like to display the # of results found and display it in the line of code below that reads "Search Results:" - so it would look something like this... Search Results: 10 matches found. And 10 would be the number of results it has found. Here is what I have so far. Everything is working great, I would just like to add the feature I have described. Any help is much appreciated.

            <body>
<div id="content">
<div class="contentbox">
    <h1>Search For A PO</h1>
            <form method="post" action="">
<table class="search">
            <tr><td> Search: <select name="type">
            <option value="po_num"<?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='po_num'){print "selected";}?>>PO Number</option>
            <option value="date" <?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='date'){print "selected";}?>>Date</option>
            <option value="vin_num"<?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='vin_num'){print "selected";}?>>VIN Number</option>
                     </select></td>
<td>for: <input type="text" name="term" /><br /></td></tr>
           <tr><td> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" /></td>
<td class="date">* date format: yyyymmdd</td></tr>
        </table>    
    </form>
</div>
<hr width='100%'></hr>
    <?php
        $term = $_POST['term'];
    if ($term == '')
    {
    echo '<h2>Please enter a value</h2>';
    exit;
    }
        $search_result = '';
        if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === "POST")  {
        mysql_connect ("localhost", "user","pass")  or die (mysql_error());
        mysql_select_db ("podat");

        $type = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['type']);
        $term = trim(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['term']));
        $sql = mysql_query("select * from parts_ord where $type like '%$term%' AND date<>'0'");
}
if (! mysql_num_rows ($sql)){
echo '<h2>No Results Found</h2>';
exit;
}   

echo '<h2>Search Results:</h2>';
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)){
        //var_dump($row);

echo "<br/><table class='results'>
<tr><td class='short'><B>PO Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['po_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Vendor:</B> </td><td>".$row['vendor']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Date:</B> </td><td>".$row['date']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>VIN Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['vin_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Description:</B> </td><td>".$row['descr']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Invoice Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['inv_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Purchase Agent:</B> </td><td>".$row['agt']."</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><a href=\"edit.php/?id=".$row['po_num']."\">Edit</a></td></tr></table>";

                }

        ?>
Edited by Nick Evan because: Fixed formatting
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Member Avatar for hielo 
<body>
<div id="content">
<div class="contentbox">
<h1>Search For A PO</h1>
<form method="post" action="">
<table class="search">
<tr><td> Search: <select name="type">
<option value="po_num"<?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='po_num'){print "selected";}?>>PO Number</option>
<option value="date" <?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='date'){print "selected";}?>>Date</option>
<option value="vin_num"<?php if(isset($_REQUEST['type']) && $_REQUEST['type']=='vin_num'){print "selected";}?>>VIN Number</option>
</select></td>
<td>for: <input type="text" name="term" /><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" /></td>
<td class="date">* date format: yyyymmdd</td></tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<hr width='100%'></hr>
<?php
$term = $_POST['term'];
if ($term == '')
{
echo '<h2>Please enter a value</h2>';
exit;
}
$search_result = '';
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === "POST") {
mysql_connect ("localhost", "user","pass") or die (mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("podat");

$type = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['type']);
$term = trim(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['term']));
$sql = mysql_query("select * from parts_ord where $type like '%$term%' AND date<>'0'");
}
$total = mysql_num_rows ($sql);
if (!$total ){
echo '<h2>No Results Found</h2>';
exit;
}

echo '<h2>Search Results: ' .$total .' matches found.</h2>';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)){
//var_dump($row);

echo "<br/><table class='results'>
<tr><td class='short'><B>PO Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['po_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Vendor:</B> </td><td>".$row['vendor']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Date:</B> </td><td>".$row['date']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>VIN Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['vin_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Description:</B> </td><td>".$row['descr']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Invoice Number:</B> </td><td>".$row['inv_num']."</td></tr>
<tr><td><B>Purchase Agent:</B> </td><td>".$row['agt']."</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan='2'><a href=\"edit.php/?id=".$row['po_num']."\">Edit</a></td></tr></table>";

}

?>
Member Avatar for dschuett

That's it??? Easy as that???!!! Haha, sorry...i'm a complete newb to php. One more question would be...is there an easy way to only display a certain number of results per page, and then have a next button or page 1, 2, .... buttons to return the rest of the results? Thanks so much for your help! I'm all for learning...

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Thanks! I appreciate your help!

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