Re: simple php search
| From: | Paul Duggan | Date: | Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:59:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: simple php search | ||
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is anyone away of any tutorials as I'm having difficulty constructing the
remainder of my code. Thanks for the replies!
"Paul Duggan" <paulduggan@f2s.com> wrote in message
news:20031205144538.36940.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> if I create a text box:
>
> <body>
>
> <form action="nextpage.html" method="GET" name="myform">
>
> <input type="Text" name="surname" align="TOP"
> size="25"><br>
>
> <input type="Submit" value="Submit" align="MIDDLE">
>
> </form>
>
>
> how do I go about extracting a surname from a mysql database?
>
>
>
> will it be something along the lines?
>
> select firstname,surname
> from employees
> where surname = textbox.surname;
>
>
> new to this so im trying to get my head around it, basically i just want
to
> search a mysql database by someones surname.
>
> cheers!
>