I got a Index page on which search page is included, and when I submit it, it passes values to find.php through action and method post. The code is below
if($_POST['searchsubmit']=="Search"){
$cat=$_POST['searchcategory'];
$area=$_POST['searcharea'];
$term=$_POST['searchbox'];
}
The above code is written on find.php, Now when I try to implement paging through basic paging method with where conditions to make appropiate search query
$where="where approved='yes'";
if($term!=""){
$where.=" and name like '%$term%'";
}
if($cat!=""){
$where.=" and category like '%$cat%'";
}
if($area!=""){
$where.=" and area like '%$area%'";
}
$start=0;
$end=5;
if($_GET['page']!="")
{
$start=$_GET['page']*$end;
}
Where $start is my initial limit, and $end is my number of records. For the first page of paging, I pass a variable page with 0 for first page
<a href="find.php?page=<?php echo 0;?>">First</a>
and my search query now becomes
$que="select * from shops ".$where." ORDER BY likes DESC limit $start,$end";
As soon as I click on "first", My new link become "/find.php?page=0" and the post values which I recivied from index page search bar are lost.
Is there any way to retain those values ?The two methods which I though are sending them again through url with GET, or the other way is to store them in session. Is there any third method available ?
Marc is absolutely right. Do not use the code as it is.
As an alternate solution to your problem -