CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user7885788
user7885788

Reputation:

PHP database search issue

I have an issue with some code. It's a HTML file that sends a string to a PHP file which then searches an offline database and it returns a link to the html page. Each time I search it states there are no results found.

<?php $searchfor=$_GET['keyword'];
$contents=file_get_contents('/users/tutors/mhtest15/share/shakespeare/home.html', true);
if (stripos($contents, $searchfor) !==false) {
  $startpos=stripos($contents, $searchfor);
  $getcode=substr($contents, $startpos, 150);
  $isolate=explode('"', $getcode);
  $sendlinkback='https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/'.$isolate[1];
  echo "<br> <a href ='".$sendlinkback ."'>The file $searchfor Exists here</a>";
}

else if ($isolate !=='$searchfor') {
  echo "<li>no results to display</li>";
}

?>
<html>

<head>
  <title>William Shakespeare Archive Search Engine</title>

</head>

<body>

  <p>
    <p>

      <div id="container">
        <center><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fc/20/b4/fc20b40a4447af0bc71746bf47d2849e.jpg" alt="Shakespeare Image" height="400" width="350">

          <h1>Shakespeare Search Engine</h1>

        </center>

        <div style="text-align: center">
          <br>
          <form action='test.php' method="GET" id="search" name="search">
            <input class="button" type="submit" value="Search">
            <input name='search' style="width:200px;font-size:14pt;" placeholder="Search term...">
          </form>
        </div>
      </div>
</body>

</html>

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 741

The first issue is, you are checking the $_GET['keyword'] variable, but your input name is search.

Change:

$searchfor=$_GET['keyword'];

To:

$searchfor=$_GET['search'];

If you can show us the format of your html file would be great.

And change file path to this: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/

UPDATE:

Finally, something like this should work (but it's still ugly)

$searchfor=$_GET['search'];
$contents=file_get_contents('https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/', true);

if (stripos($contents, $searchfor) !==false) {
  $startpos=stripos($contents, $searchfor);
  $getcode=substr($contents, $startpos, 150);

  $isolate=explode('"', $getcode);
  $sendlinkback='https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/'.$isolate[0];
  echo "<br> <a href ='".$sendlinkback ."'>The file ".preg_replace('/^>/','',strip_tags($isolate[1]))." Exists here</a>";
}

Upvotes: 2

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