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query search problems php

hi all.

i have a working search box on my site that returns usernames and email from my members table like the search term.

i am now trying to make it pull in pictures that relate to the results.

please could you help me with my query:

this is my current working query:

$query="SELECT * FROM members WHERE UserName OR UserEmail LIKE '%".$Search."%'"; 
	$result=mysql_query($query) or die ("bad query '$query' : ".mysql_error());
	if (mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {
		  while ($res=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		  
			
			echo '<a href="users.php?id=' . $res['MemberID']. '">' . $res['UserName'] . '</a><br>';
			echo $res['UserEmail'].'<br><br>'; 
			
		  }
	}else{
		echo 'No results';
	}	
}

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the query i have made (that is working but not showing correctly) :

$query="SELECT  members.MemberID, members.UserName, members.UserEmail, images.imgSmall FROM members, images WHERE images.memberId = members.MemberID AND members.UserName OR members.UserEmail LIKE '%".$Search."%'"; 
	$result=mysql_query($query) or die ("bad query '$query' : ".mysql_error());
	if (mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {
		  while ($res=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
		  
		 
			echo '<img src='. $res['imgSmall'].'><br>';
			echo '<a href="users.php?id=' . $res['MemberID']. '">' . $res['UserName'] . '</a><br>';
			echo $res['UserEmail'].'<br><br>'; 
			
		  }

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here is a screen shot of what the output of the search looks like:

i have 5 members it is just repeating the search 5 times over and not displaying the correct images for the members.
sreasa.png

Ray Paseur

Have you used phpMyAdmin to look at the data base tables and verify that they contain the correct data? Also you might want to put var_dump() into the while control structure to see the contents of each row that is returned. Something like this:

if (mysql_num_rows($result)>0)
{
while ($res=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
var_dump($row);
}
}

helpchrisplz

ASKER

my problem is am trying to do a WHERE and then go into a LIKE and i am not sure how to do that.

I just want it to retrieve MemberID, UserName and UserEmail from members and retrieve imgSmall from images where imgSmall has the same MemberID as the MemberID found in table members. and then use LIKE to only show results relevant to the search

so the user will enter a username or a email into the search box then it will show users with that username with there picture and email

Ray Paseur

But is the data correct? Will your WHERE clause find the information? That is why I want to ask you to verify the contents of the tables.

helpchrisplz

ASKER

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `images` (
`pictureId` int(4) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`memberId` int(11) default NULL,
`imgLarge` varchar(255) default NULL,
`imgSmall` varchar(255) default NULL,
`banner` varchar(255) default NULL,
`bannerSmall` varchar(255) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`pictureId`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `images`
--

INSERT INTO `images` (`pictureId`, `memberId`, `imgLarge`, `imgSmall`, `banner`, `bannerSmall`) VALUES
(1, 1, 'images/71745-1920x1080-RED-SKULL.jpg', 'images/sml_71745-1920x1080-RED-SKULL.jpg', 'images/164088-1920x1080-Fractalius-is-AWESOME.jpg', 'images/sml_164088-1920x1080-Fractalius-is-AWESOME.jpg'),
(2, 2, 'images/164088-1920x1080-Fractalius-is-AWESOME.jpg', 'images/sml_164088-1920x1080-Fractalius-is-AWESOME.jpg', 'images/114288-1920x1080-Your_Not_Alone.jpg', 'images/sml_114288-1920x1080-Your_Not_Alone.jpg'),
(3, 3, '0', '0', NULL, NULL),
(4, 4, 'images/177017-1920x1080-Blue_Dragon_ctr9.JPG', 'images/sml_177017-1920x1080-Blue_Dragon_ctr9.JPG', 'images/GreenWave.jpg', 'images/sml_GreenWave.jpg'),
(5, 5, 'images/Desert.jpg', 'images/sml_Desert.jpg', 'images/Penguins.jpg', 'images/sml_Penguins.jpg');

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `members` (
`MemberID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`UserName` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`Password` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
`UserEmail` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
`Age` int(11) NOT NULL,
`Location` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
`Gender` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
`Language` varchar(55) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`MemberID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `members`
--

INSERT INTO `members` (`MemberID`, `UserName`, `Password`, `UserEmail`, `Age`, `Location`, `Gender`, `Language`) VALUES
(1, 'admin', 'admin', 'admin@admin.com', 20, 'germany', 'male', 'french'),
(2, 'chris', 'chris', 'chris@chris.com', 22, 'Yarm', 'male', 'english'),
(3, 'christopher', 'christopher', 'christopher@christopher.com', 32, 'uk', 'male', 'french'),
(4, 'ben', 'ben', 'ben@ben.com', 32, 'uk', 'male', 'french'),
(5, 'ddaviesd', 'budapest', 'domdavies@hotmail.co.uk', 21, 'Middlesbrough', 'male', 'english');

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sgvill

Will something like

WHERE members.UserName OR members.UserEmail LIKE '%".$Search."%'

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work in your DB? or do you have to do it like this:

WHERE members.UserName LIKE  '%".$Search."%'  OR members.UserEmail LIKE '%".$Search."%'

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(and a similar question in your other select statement)

helpchrisplz

ASKER

yes that is doing the trick thx