Echo your query and ensure that $entry has data in it, otherwise
matching '%%' will match everything as you are getting.
Cheers,
Rob.
samug wrote:
>
> There's no php.sql, so I'll put it here.
>
> I'm trying to do a search from mysql database like this:
>
> if (!$inquiry = mysql_query("select id,link,heading,desc from links where
> heading like '%$entry%' or desc like '%$entry%'
> or keyword like '%$entry%'",$connection)){
> print "<LI>Search was unsuccesful!";
> }
> else{
> while ($link = mysql_fetch_row($inquiry)){
> print "<LI><A HREF=\"" . $link[1];
> print "\">" . $link[2];
> print "</A> <I>" . $link[3] . "</I>" ;
> }
>
> }
>
> But everytime I get all the possible entries, even though I'm sure it
> doesn't match.
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
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