Hi I have a search page that is not working. Can anyone tell me how I can fix my code below to make it work?
Thank You
<?php
require_once "../db/connect.php";
// make link here
$link = $db->_impl;
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Employee</title>link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper"><!-- end #header -->
<div id="menu-wrapper">
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="TDBOE.php">Department</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
<li class="current_page_item"><a href="search.php">Search</a></li>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
<li><a href="#"> </a></li>
<li><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<!-- end #menu -->
<div id="page">
<div id="page-bgtop">
<div id="page-bgbtm">
<div id="page-content">
<div id="content">
<div class="post">
<h2 class="title">Search Proposals:</h2>
<p> </p>
<p>Enter a proposal name below to search...</p>
<!-- search -->
<div class="search">
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="search.php">
<input type="hidden" name="searching" value="yes" />
<input type="text" value = "Search here..." name="search" id="search" />
<input type="submit" id="searchSubmit" name="searchSubmit" value= "Find" />
</form>
</div>
<!-- ENDS search -->
<?php
//error handling////////////
//If they did not enter a search term, show an error
if ($search == "")
{
echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term";
exit;
}
//entered a value, show results
//Only displayed if they have submitted the form
if ($searching == "yes")
{
echo "<h2>Results:</h2><p>";
}
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM PROPOSALS p WHERE p.Name LIKE '%$searchSubmit%'';
$result = mysqli_query($link, $sql);
//if no matches in DB
$matches=mysql_num_rows($data);
if ($matches == 0)
{
echo "Sorry, but we can not find an entry to match your query<br><br>";
}
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($link, $sql))
{
echo " SEARCH RETURNED RESULTS! ";
}
?>
<div class="post">
<h2 class="title">
</h2>
<p class="meta">
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<!-- end #content -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- end #page -->
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
<!-- end #footer -->
</body>
</html>