Search Interface

Question

I am about to pull my hair out one strand at a time.  I am trying desperately to create an advanced recordset. I need this explained to me in the simpliest of terms.  I have a table that has nine columns:  posting title, size, dress condition, dress length, color, city, state, email and additional details. I want visitors to my site to receive results based on whatever keyword they choose to search by.  So for example, they should receive a result whether they type in the name of a city or a color.  How do I filter this?

Answer 1

Ah, I didn't think I was the one giving you the "Request.Querystring" code.
How are you running th e test when you say you test it and get No Data? If it's from the recordset dialog, you won't get results because it is using the default values in each of your variables for the search criteria. You would need to temporarily change the default values to actual search terms to mimic run-time search values.
Also, someone should have mentioned this before, but please take a look at this thread for how to post code in your posts, it makes it much easier to read:   http://forums.adobe.com/thread/427712 
Here's the source from my demo page - but keep in mind that other than the recordset, there are other things that will lead to unsuccessful results including how your search page is set up to other elements on your results page. Have you tried building this using only one or two variables/column? It's usually better to build and test with more limited data to rule out other issues first.
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
  if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;   
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  return $theValue;
$colname_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname2_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname2_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname3_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname3_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname4_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname4_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname5_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname5_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname6_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname6_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
$colname7_rsColors = "-1";
if (isset($_POST['inputColor'])) {
  $colname7_rsColors = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $_POST['inputColor'] : addslashes($_POST['inputColor']);
mysql_select_db($database_demoConn, $demoConn);
$query_rsColors = sprintf("SELECT * FROM colorTable WHERE color1 LIKE %s OR color2 LIKE %s OR color3 LIKE %s OR color4 LIKE %s OR color5 LIKE %s OR color6 LIKE %s OR color7 LIKE %s", GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname2_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname3_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname4_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname5_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname6_rsColors . "%", "text"),GetSQLValueString("%" . $colname7_rsColors . "%", "text"));
$rsColors = mysql_query($query_rsColors, $demoConn) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsColors = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsColors);
$totalRows_rsColors = mysql_num_rows($rsColors);
?>