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PHP Tutorials By Vineet Kumar Saini
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Alphabetical Search in PHP
First of all we create a table in database. Suppose we created ‘student’ table in ‘test’ database.
Like as following image
<html>
<body>
<p><center>
<h3>Alphabetical Search in PHP</h3>
<form action="index.php" method="post" name="search" onclick="submit">
<a href="index.php?letter=A">A</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=B">B</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=C">C</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=D">D</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=E">E</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=F">F</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=G">G</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=H">H</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=I">I</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=J">J</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=K">K</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=L">L</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=M">M</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=N">N</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=O">O</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=P">P</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=Q">Q</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=R">R</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=S">S</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=T">T</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=U">U</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=V">V</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=W">W</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=X">X</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=Y">Y</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=Z">Z</a> |
<a href="index.php?letter=">View All</a>
</form>
<br />
PHP Tutorials By Vineet Kumar Saini
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</center></p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
if(isset($_GET['letter']))
{
$con=mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
if(!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db('test',$con);
$char=$_GET['letter'];
if($char)
{
$query = "SELECT * FROM student WHERE name LIKE '$char%' ";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$count=mysql_num_rows($result);
if($count >= 1)
{
?>
<center>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="35%" >
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Class</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['name']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['class']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['email']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
<center>
<?php
}
else
{
echo 'Records Not Found';
}
}
else
{
$query = "SELECT * FROM student";
$result = mysql_query($query);
?>
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<center>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="35%" >
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Class</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['name']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['class']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php echo $row['email']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</center>
<?php
}
}
?>
Then we run the code and click on ‘A’ then display result of A. Like as following image
If we click on ‘V’ then display result of ‘V’. Like as following image
PHP Tutorials By Vineet Kumar Saini
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If we click on ‘View All’ then display full data from table.Like as following image
