Displaying message when no results found in PHP MySQL search

Question

I have a PHP search script which queries a MySQL database. Currently, when no results are displayed the script shows and error. How can I make it display a message like \"No

Answer 1

Try the following:

<?php

mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
mysql_select_db("database");

if(!empty($_GET['q'])){
$query=mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_GET['q']));
$searchSQL="SELECT * FROM links WHERE `title` LIKE '%{$query}%'  LIMIT 8";
$searchResult=mysql_query($searchSQL);

if(mysql_num_rows($searchResult) <= 0)
{
    echo "No results";
} else {

    while ($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($searchResult)){
        $results[]="<div class='webresult'><div class='title'><a href='{$row['url']}'>{$row['title']}</a></div><div class='desc'>{$row['description']}</div><div class='url'>{$row['url']}</div></div>";
    }

    echo implode($results);
} 
}

?>

Also please either use MySQLi or PDO as it is safer and better to use, some information can be found below. Personally I prefer MySQLi but prepared statements in PDO is really good and saves some lines of code every time you query ;)

MySQLi and PHP

PDO and PHP

Answer 2

if (empty($results)) { 
    echo 'No results found'; 
} else {
    echo implode($results);
}