I have a question about full text search using mysql and php. There is text or html file data inside mysql, then I would like to search text from these file. when I filed some text inside text box in web site. mysql colum has below b_col_id, b_col, file_name I have wrote the code; -------header.html--------------------------- <img src="img/seek.gif"style="position:absolute;top:95px;left:600px" alt="search"> <form method="get"action="documentview.php"> <input type="text" name="pattern" style="position:absolute;top:100px;left:650px"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"style="position:absolute;top:100px;left:800px;border: 1px solid;boder-color:#663366"> </form> -------------------------------------------- --part of documentview.php-------------------------------------- class seek{ function file_read($pattern){//retrieve_binary if($pattern){ $sql_select = "SELECT * FROM view WHERE b_col = '$pattern'"; $result = mysql_query($sql_select) or DIE ("Could not perform SELECT in retrieve function ".mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()); echo "$result"; if($result){ while ($temp = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { $filename = $temp['file_name']; $fileType = $temp['file_type']; $fileContent = $temp['b_col']; header("Content-type: $fileType"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename"); header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data"); echo $fileContent; } exit; } else { print "There is more then one record with that name or record does not exist!"; } } }//end function file_read }// end of class seek if ($pattern){ //print("$pattern <br>"); $obj1 = new seek(); $obj1->file_read($pattern); exit; } --------------------------------------------- if anyone knows how to search text inside mysql database when I input text box from web, please teach me how! Regards, Yui -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php