How to use an html form to search my database??

Hey guys,
I'm going through 100's of tutorials on creating a PHP CMS structure for my website and did manage to build a very simple 1. I have 1 question that i need your help with. I was browsing through websites on Google and discovered this website that you can search their data base with a an html form. How can I achieve this in the most simplest ways.
Site URL: http://www.istructe.org/yearbook/index.asp
Yours
Ashveer

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SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE fieldname1 = fieldvalue1 AND fieldname2 = fieldvalue2....
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After executing the search the script looks at the number of records found. If that is zero, there were no matches. If there is 1 or more records found, each is printed to the page. You would need some facility with a server scripting language to do this, although not too much. It's fairly simple.

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