On 9/10/05 3:13 PM, "bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if i allow a user to search on say 'aa', i'd like the user to be able to
> get:
> 
>   name       email       foo...
>   aa         [EMAIL PROTECTED]     dddd
>   b1         [EMAIL PROTECTED]    123
> 
> any ideas as to how i could go about and create the query, or what would i
> need to do to have this result...

Use like in your select statement ...

Select name, email, foo from tbl where email like '%aa%';



> 2) if i have a query that produces a number of rows, how/what would i need
> to do, to limit the number of rows displayed, and to allow the user to
> select a 'back/next' button that would generate/display the next 'N' items
> in the list/query results...
> 

Use limit in your select statement

Select * from tbl limit 10;

You can also use a start in the limit so the next button would call this
select. 

Select * from tbl limit 10, 10;

> if anybody could direct me to sample docs/code that kind of describes/solves
> what i've described, i'd appreciate it!!!

The folks on the MySQL list can help you with these questions better then
the folks here on the PHP list.



> 
> thanks
> 
> -bruce
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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