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Reena little
Reena little

Reputation: 38

Php code writing issue in search engine

Trying to create pagination with search query.Everything working fine,here error occurs,i'm not able to use $page to search. Want like this in browser:

search.php?page=what+i+search where it equals to searched query

Code working properly(without query):

for ($b=1;$b<=$a;$b++)
{
?><a href="search.php?page=<?php echo $b; ?>" style="text-decoration:none"><?php echo $b." ";?></a> <?php
}
?>

Tried like this:

for ($b=1;$b<=$a;$b++)
echo " <a href='search.php?page=“.stripslashes($page).”'> </a>";
?>

and like this:

for ($b=1;$b<=$a;$b++)
echo " <a href='search.php?page=$page&submit=$b'> </a>";
?>

Here $page is name in simple html form,see:

<form action="search.php" method="GET">
<b>Enter Search Term:</b> <input type="text" name="page" >
    <br>
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

Pls help,i want to include search query in pagination.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (2)

Olim Saidov
Olim Saidov

Reputation: 2844

Use PHP's built in function urlencode to encode $page value correctly.

Alternatively you can use http_build_query to build query string dynamicly:

$searchTerm = 'foo bar'; // it can be empty 

$queryData = $searchTerm ? ['search' => $searchTerm] : [];

for ($i = 1; $i <= $maxPages; $i++) {
    $queryData['page'] = $i;
    $href = 'search.php?' . http_build_query($queryData);
    echo " <a href='$href'>$i</a>";
}

Upvotes: 1

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 3338

There are two variables that you need to keep track of:

  • What page are you currently on
  • The search term

This means that your final url should look something like this:

search.php?search=words&page=2

If you loop through your $_GET variables, you will see entries for both $_GET['search'] and $_GET['page']. Your code should also have something that specifies the page a 1 if it is not set.

Your form can stay the same. However, when building the page links, you should do the following: 

for($p=1;$p<=$maxPages;$p++) {
    echo '<a href="search.php?search=';
    echo urlencode($_GET['search']);  // urlencode() escapes spaces and other special characters
    echo '&page=' . $p;
    echo '">' . $p . '</a>';
}

Upvotes: 0

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