Searching phpbb's 'topic_title' via MYSQL php, but exact match doesn't work
Question
$sql = sprintf( "SELECT topic_title
FROM `phpbb_topics`
WHERE `topic_title` LIKE '%%%s%%' LIMIT 20"
, mysql_real_escape_string('match this title')
);
Which I run this query in phpMyAdmin the results are: (correct)
match this title
match this title 002
But when I run that same MYSQL query in PHP I get: (incorrect)
match this title 002
I have also tried MATCH AGAINST with the same result with both php and phpMyAdmin:
$sql = "SELECT topic_title
FROM phpbb_topics
WHERE MATCH (topic_title)
AGAINST('match this title' IN BOOLEAN MODE)";
The whole block of code im using to search with:
mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("phpbb") or die(mysql_error());
$query = "match this title";
$query = "SELECT topic_title
FROM phpbb_topics
WHERE MATCH (topic_title)
AGAINST('$query' IN BOOLEAN MODE)";
// Doesn't work (these 2 both give the same result "match this title 002" and no the "match this title")
// $query = "SELECT * FROM `phpbb_topics`
// WHERE `topic_title`
// LIKE '%$query%'
// LIMIT 0, 30 "; // Doesn't work
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$topic_title = $row['topic_title'];
echo "$topic_title";
}
Any idea as to what i'm doing wrong?
I'v been searching all over the place and have found next to no help :(
Solution
The problem is that after you execute your query you fetch the first row, do nothing with it, enter the loop by fetching the second row and start printing results..
If you remove the first $row = mysql_fetch_array($result)
, (directly after $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
) you should be fine.
Another comment; If you echo a variable you don't have to put any qoutes around it. And in the way you're doing it now, you won't get a newline between the results so you might want to change that line to echo $topic_title . "<br>";