grahamgr3 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I have built a forum for my own website thanks to the forum example in this book in chapter 17. Now I want the capability to search through posts and show the results of the search. I modified the search.php script included in the course files. I tested it and it doesn't work properly, the $_GET['terms'] doesn't get set when I type in search terms and click search. I tested it by echoing out 'hello' after the isset($_GET['terms']) . I don't know why it isn't set though, in the address bar it is written search.php?terms=test&submit=Submit <?php # Script 17.8 - search.php // This page displays and handles a search form. // Include the HTML header: // Show the search form: echo '<form action="search.php" method="get" accept-charset="utf-8"> <p><em>Search </em>: <input name="terms" type="text" size="30" maxlength="60" '; // Check for existing value: if (isset($_GET['terms'])) { echo 'value="' . htmlspecialchars($_GET['terms']) . '" '; } // Complete the form: echo '/><input name="submit" type="submit" value="' . $words['submit'] . '" /></p></form>'; if (isset($_GET['terms'])) { // Handle the form. echo 'hello'; // Clean the terms: $terms = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc, htmlentities(strip_tags($_GET['terms']))); // Run the query... $q = "SELECT message FROM posts WHERE MATCH (message) AGAINST ('test' IN BOOLEAN MODE)"; $r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q); if (mysqli_num_rows($r) > 0) { $row = mysqli_fetch_array($r, MYSQLI_ASSOC); echo '<h2>Search Results</h2>'; echo '<p>' . $row['message'] . '</p>'; } else { echo '<p>No results found.</p>'; } } ?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 This is very strange. There's nothing in the header that's affecting the GET values or this one in particular? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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