in my search form, if the user types '
good', it displays all the results which contain the keyword '
good'. however if the user types in '
good sweetest', it displays no results because there is no record with the two words appearing together; BUT appearing in an entry at different places.
for example, the record says:
A
good action is an ever-remaining
store and a pure yield
the user types in '
good', it will show up this record, but if the user types in '
good' + 'pure', it will not show anything. or if the record contains the keyword 'good-deeds' and if the user types in '
good deeds' without the hyphen, it will not show anything.
what i would like is that if the user types in '
good' + 'pure' or '
good deeds' it should records containing these keywords highlighting them.
search.php code:
$search_result = "";
$search_result = $_POST["q"];
$search_result = trim($search_result);
//Check if the string is empty
if ($search_result == "") {
echo "<p class='error'>Search Error. Please Enter Your Search Query.</p>" ;
exit();
}
if ($search_result == "%" || $search_result == "_" || $search_result == "+" ) {
echo "<p class='error1'>Search Error. Please Enter a Valid Search Query.</p>" ;
exit();
}
$result = mysql_query('SELECT cQuotes, vAuthor, cArabic, vReference FROM thquotes WHERE cQuotes LIKE "%' . mysql_real_escape_string($search_result) .'%" ORDER BY idQuotes DESC', $conn)
or die ('Error: '.mysql_error());
function h($s) {
echo htmlspecialchars($s, ENT_QUOTES);
}
function highlightWords($string, $word)
{
$string = preg_replace("/".preg_quote($word, "/")."/i", "<span class='highlight'>$0</span>", $string);
/*** return the highlighted string ***/
return $string;
}
?>
<div class="caption">Search Results</div>
<div class="center_div">
<table>
<?php while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$cQuote = highlightWords(htmlspecialchars($row['cQuotes']), $search_result);
?>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; font-size:18px;"><?php h($row['cArabic']); ?></td>
<td style="font-size:16px;"><?php echo $cQuote; ?></td>
<td style="font-size:12px;"><?php h($row['vAuthor']); ?></td>
<td style="font-size:12px; font-style:italic; text-align:right;"><?php h($row['vReference']); ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</table>
</div>
search.html:
<form name="myform" class="wrapper">
<input type="text" name="q" onkeyup="showUser()" class="txt_search"/>
<input type="button" name="button" onclick="showUser()" class="button"/>
<p>
<div id="txtHint"></div>
</form>
