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I have a database table named with books. it consists of something like below

---------------------------------------------------------------
     title         |     author           |    category
                   |                      |  
--------------------------------------------------------------

    xyz                   madman                  fiction

    adapt                 brainless               fiction
     
    adaxx                   stupid                fiction

    follow                 idiot                  journal

    your                    man                   acadamic
--------------------------------------------------------------


user is trying to search the value by author or title and based on category
ex: if user search for adapt by selecting fiction need display both adapt and adaxx
below is the code
using mysql database
HTML
<form action="search.php" method="post">
<?php
$select_query=          "Select distinct category from books";
$select_query_run =     mysql_query($select_query);
$select_query_array=   mysql_fetch_array($select_query_run) ;
 $cat = $select_query_array['category'];
echo "<select name='name'>";
while ($select_query_array=   mysql_fetch_array($select_query_run) )
{// dynamic drop list

  echo "<option value='".htmlspecialchars($select_query_array["category"])."' >".htmlspecialchars($select_query_array["category"])."</option>";
}

echo "</select>";
?>
   <input type="text" name="searchvalue" size="5"  id="searchfield" title="searchfield" onFocus="clearText(this)"/>
     <input type="submit" name="submit" value="" alt="Search" id="searchbutton" title="Search" />
</form>
<?php
$button = $_POST['submit'];
$search = $_POST['searchvalue']; 
if(strlen($search)<=1)
{
$name = $_POST['name'];
//echo $a;
echo "Search term too short";
}
else{
echo "You searched for $search <hr size='1'></br>";
$search_exploded = explode (" ", $search);
$x = "";
$construct = "";  
foreach($search_exploded as $search_each)
{
$x++;
if($x==1)
$construct .="title LIKE '%$search_each%'";
else
$construct .="AND title LIKE '%$search_each%'";
 
}
$construct ="SELECT * FROM books WHERE $construct and category = '$name'";// I tried this but not working

$run = mysql_query($construct);
$foundnum = mysql_num_rows($run);
if ($foundnum==0)
echo "Sorry, there are no matching result for $search.</br></br>1.";
else
{
echo "$foundnum results found !<p>";
}
?>
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Updated 20-Feb-15 8:02am
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Comments
PIEBALDconsult 20-Feb-15 13:29pm    
Which database system? Should we assume MySQL? Please use Improve question to add detail and context.
Member 11406049 20-Feb-15 13:33pm    
yes mysql
W Balboos, GHB 20-Feb-15 13:51pm    
SQL: You'd probably be better served if your category column was of type int and just had the numerical values - There's no value to have 'cat x' when every entry begins with 'cat '.

PHP: what do expect to ever happen to the value you have in $button ?

Considering your previous question, this is starting to seem too much like homework.

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