Reputation: 1435
I have a sample code for my problem. what i want to do is if i search for "Helloworld" then i want to inform the user that there's no data matched based from their inputted data. Im thinking if can i use if else statement to do a validation if the data inputted didn't matched any rows and if the inputted data matched some rows. As i visualized the solution for this problem i think this method is the solution but i don't how can i do this. i think the solution is to put if else condition here's my code how i thought about it
if the result of search is not nothing then it will show the result then if nothing then the message will appear "no data matched"
<?php
if(isset($_POST['search']))
{
$valueToSearch = $_POST['valueToSearch'];
// search in all table columns
// using concat mysql function
$query = "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE CONCAT(`id`, `fname`, `lname`, `age`) LIKE '%".$valueToSearch."%'";
$search_result = filterTable($query);
}
else {
$query = "SELECT * FROM `users`";
$search_result = filterTable($query);
}
// function to connect and execute the query
function filterTable($query)
{
$connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "test_db");
$filter_Result = mysqli_query($connect, $query);
return $filter_Result;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP HTML TABLE DATA SEARCH</title>
<style>
table,tr,th,td
{
border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="php_html_table_data_filter.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="valueToSearch" placeholder="Value To Search"><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Filter"><br><br>
<?php
if($result_validation != ''){
?>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Age</th>
</tr>
<!-- populate table from mysql database -->
<?php while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($search_result)):?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row['id'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['fname'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['lname'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['age'];?></td>
</tr>
<?php endwhile;?>
</table>
<?php
}else{
echo "no data matched";
}
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1971
Reputation: 16963
I see no point in displaying the entire table inside the form, you should display it somewhere outside of the form. Having said that, $result_validation
variable is undefined, you need to use $search_result
in your code.
And as per your question, use mysqli_result::$num_rows
to check number of rows returned from the SELECT
query.
if($search_result->num_rows){
// display table
}else{
echo 'no data matched';
}
Upvotes: 1