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Querying a MySQL Table with Multiple URL Parameters
Hello, I'm sure there is a simple solution to this, but I've been tearing my hair out for the last couple of hours, I have a form that generates a URL with multiple variables:
hostingsearch.php?Type=0&P
I cant for the life of me get the variables included into a MySQL query.
The parameters in the URL are exactly the same as the Fields in my Table that I am querying.
I want to retrieve and display information below a certain price, above a certain storage and above a certain bandwidth.
I've been playing with the query for hours and it's a bit of a mess - I'll post it below.
N.B. The urls work for individual queries created in DW, but not when I combine them.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Betch
hostingsearch.php?Type=0&P
I cant for the life of me get the variables included into a MySQL query.
The parameters in the URL are exactly the same as the Fields in my Table that I am querying.
I want to retrieve and display information below a certain price, above a certain storage and above a certain bandwidth.
I've been playing with the query for hours and it's a bit of a mess - I'll post it below.
N.B. The urls work for individual queries created in DW, but not when I combine them.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Betch
mysql_select_db($database_webhosting, $webhosting);
$query_hostingsearch = ("SELECT `Host`, Package, Rating, Storage, `Data Transfer`, `Included Domains`, Setup, Price
FROM UKshared WHERE Type = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_Type, "double") AND PriceGBP <= %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_PriceGBP, "double") AND StorageGB >= %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_StorageGB, "double") AND DataTransferGB >= %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_DataTransferGB, "double") ORDER BY PriceGBP ASC ");
$query_limit_hostingsearch = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_hostingsearch, $startRow_hostingsearch, $maxRows_hostingsearch);
$hostingsearch = mysql_query($query_limit_hostingsearch, $webhosting) or die(mysql_error());
$row_hostingsearch = mysql_fetch_assoc($hostingsearch);
ASKER
Thanks hielo, I seem to be getting somewhere now however it returns 'query was empty'.
I'll post all of hosting search below.
I'll post all of hosting search below.
<?php require_once('Connections/webhosting.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
{
$theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($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;
}
}
$maxRows_hostingsearch = 10;
$pageNum_hostingsearch = 0;
if (isset($_GET['pageNum_hostingsearch'])) {
$pageNum_hostingsearch = $_GET['pageNum_hostingsearch'];
}
$startRow_hostingsearch = $pageNum_hostingsearch * $maxRows_hostingsearch;
mysql_select_db($database_webhosting, $webhosting);
$query_limit_hostingsearch = sprintf("SELECT `Host`, `Package`, `Rating`, `Storage`, `Data Transfer`, `Included Domains`, `Setup`, `Price` FROM `UKshared` WHERE `Type` = %s AND `PriceGBP` <= %s AND `StorageGB` >= %s AND `DataTransferGB` >= %s ORDER BY PriceGBP ASC LIMIT %d, %d",
GetSQLValueString($colname_Type, "double"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_PriceGBP, "double"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_StorageGB, "double"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_DataTransferGB, "double"),
$startRow_hostingsearch,
$maxRows_hostingsearch
);
$hostingsearch = mysql_query($query_hostingsearch, $webhosting) or die(mysql_error());
$row_hostingsearch = mysql_fetch_assoc($hostingsearch);
$totalRows_hostingsearch = mysql_num_rows($hostingsearch);
?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Host</td>
<td>Package</td>
<td>Rating</td>
<td>Storage</td>
<td>Data Transfer</td>
<td>Included Domains</td>
<td>Setup</td>
<td>Price</td>
</tr>
<?php do { ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Host']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Package']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Rating']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Storage']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Data Transfer']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Included Domains']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Setup']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row_hostingsearch['Price']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } while ($row_hostingsearch = mysql_fetch_assoc($hostingsearch)); ?>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($hostingsearch);
?>
it should be:
$hostingsearch = mysql_query($query_limit_hostingsearch, $webhosting) or die( mysql_error() );
ASKER
1 step closer, thanks so much for your help - hostingsearch.php now dispays the table but it is unpopulated/empty.
Could the problem be in the MySQL table?
Just checked MySQL and Type is "int" and DataTransferGB is "int" - Apart from that it looks fine?!!
I'll post the form..
Could the problem be in the MySQL table?
Just checked MySQL and Type is "int" and DataTransferGB is "int" - Apart from that it looks fine?!!
I'll post the form..
</div>
<div id="divSearchPlans">
<form action="hostingsearch.php" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_parent">
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td width="115" align="left" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Hosting Type :</td>
<td align="right" valign="top"><select name="Type">
<option value="0">Shared Hosting</option>
<option value="1">Virtual Private Server</option>
<option value="2">Dedicated Server</option>
<option value="3">Reseller Hosting</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="115" align="left" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Monthly Price :</td>
<td align="right" valign="top"><select name="PriceGBP" id="PriceGBP">
<option value="0" selected="selected">No Price Limit</option>
<option value="5">£5 or less</option>
<option value="10">£10 or less</option>
<option value="25">£25 or less</option>
<option value="50">£50 or less</option>
<option value="100">£100 or less</option>
<option value="100">£150 or less</option>
<option value="200">£200 or less</option>
<option value="300">£300 or less</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="115" align="left" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Storage :</td>
<td align="right" valign="top"><select name="StorageGB" id="StorageGB">
<option value="" selected="selected">- - -</option>
<option value="1">At Least 1GB</option>
<option value="10">At Least 10GB</option>
<option value="25">At Least 25GB</option>
<option value="50">At Least 50GB</option>
<option value="100">At Least 100GB</option>
<option value="1000">At Least 1000GB</option>
<option value="0">Unlimited</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="115" align="left" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">Transfer :</td>
<td align="right" valign="top"><select name="DataTransferGB" id="DataTransferGB">
<option value="" selected="selected">- - -</option>
<option value="10">At Least 10GB</option>
<option value="500">At Least 500Gb</option>
<option value="1000">At Least 1000Gb</option>
<option value="5000">At Least 5000GB</option>
<option value="10000">At Least 10000GB</option>
<option value="15000">At Least 15000GB</option>
<option value="-1">Unlimited</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="right" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="search" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
On the four calls to:
GetSQLValueString(..., ...)
I don't see you defining the first variable anywhere for any of these calls. I see you have:
GetSQLValueString(..., ...)
I don't see you defining the first variable anywhere for any of these calls. I see you have:
$maxRows_hostingsearch = 10;
$pageNum_hostingsearch = 0;
but I am NOT seeing:
$colname_Type=...;
$colname_PriceGBP=...;
$colname_StorageGB=...;
$colname_DataTransferGB=...;
(where ... is supposed to be some value) anywhere on top of the page. You need to provide values for those. Otherwise your query may be returning zero records.
ASKER
Thanks, I've added the 4 variables but if I populate them with numbers, my query just returns results for those numbers.
I need to populate my query with the URL variables.
Thanks again Betch
I need to populate my query with the URL variables.
Thanks again Betch
$maxRows_hostingsearch = 10;
$pageNum_hostingsearch = 0;
$colname_Type= [Type];
$colname_PriceGBP= ['PriceGBP'];
$colname_StorageGB= ['StorageGB'];
$colname_DataTransferGB= ['DataTransfer'];
if (isset($_GET['pageNum_hostingsearch'])) {
$pageNum_hostingsearch = $_GET['pageNum_hostingsearch'];
}
$startRow_hostingsearch = $pageNum_hostingsearch * $maxRows_hostingsearch;
mysql_select_db($database_webhosting, $webhosting);
$query_limit_hostingsearch = sprintf("SELECT `Host`, `Package`, `Rating`, `Storage`, `Data Transfer`, `Included Domains`, `Setup`, `Price` FROM `UKshared` WHERE `Type` = %s AND `PriceGBP` <= %s AND `StorageGB` >= %s AND `DataTransferGB` >= %s ORDER BY PriceGBP ASC LIMIT %d, %d",
GetSQLValueString($colname_Type, "int"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_PriceGBP, "double"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_StorageGB, "double"),
GetSQLValueString($colname_DataTransferGB, "int"),
$startRow_hostingsearch,
$maxRows_hostingsearch
);
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ASKER
Thanks very much hielo, it works perfectly now!
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