Ron Piggott wrote: > > I am just starting to use Prepared Statements and am in a learning curve. > > I am working on the code below. It is for a directory. This is to select > the listing for updating. > > How do I tell if there are more than 1 search result? > > Am I correctly retrieving the results, if there is more than 1? > > I want to make a WHILE loop to display the search results for the listing > the user is editing. (You can see where I have started the <ul> ... </ul> > ... I want that area in the loop) > > Ron > > > $dbh = new PDO($dsh, $username, $password); > > $stmt = $dbh->prepare("SELECT `reference`, `organization`, `city`, > `province_state`, `postal_zip_code`, `country` FROM `ministry_profiles` > WHERE ( `reference` = :organization_reference ) OR ( `organization` LIKE > %:organization_name% ) OR ( `telephone` LIKE %:organization_phone% ) OR ( > `toll_free` LIKE %:organization_toll_free_phone% ) ORDER BY `organization` > ASC"); > > $stmt->bindParam(':organization_reference', $organization_reference, > PDO::PARAM_STR); $stmt->bindParam(':organization_name', > $organization_name, PDO::PARAM_STR); > $stmt->bindParam(':organization_phone', $organization_phone, > PDO::PARAM_STR); $stmt->bindParam(':organization_toll_free_phone', > $organization_phone, PDO::PARAM_STR); > > $stmt->execute(); > > $result = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); > > echo "<ul>\r\n"; > > $search_result_organization_reference = $result['reference']; > $search_result_organization = $result['organization']; > $search_result_city = $result['city']; > $search_result_province_state = $result['province_state']; > $search_result_postal_zip_code = $result['postal_zip_code']; > $search_result_country = $result['country']; > > echo "<li><strong>" . $search_result_organization . "</strong> (Ref: " > . $search_result_organization_reference . ")<br />\r\n"; > echo $search_result_city . ", " . $search_result_province_state . " " . > $search_result_country . " " . $search_result_postal_zip_code . > "</li>\r\n"; > > echo "</ul>\r\n"; The docs are a good source of information. For instance, example 2 on http://php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.fetch.php looks to be one solution. Or http://php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.fetchall.php which gives you an array of all the result set rows. Cheers -- David Robley To shoot a mime, do you use a silencer? Today is Pungenday, the 43rd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3177. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php