Bill Mudry wrote:
With the botanical wood tree that I have been working on, the number of
records for
genera and for species can get quite large and unwieldy. Presently I
have over 6,000
species records that takes a while to load let alone try to browse through.
I need to chop this up into querying by alphabet of the first letter of
the species
botanical names. For the species level of organization, I have been
keeping the
data in a MySQL file called simply 'species'. I want to have a single
character of the
alphabet with each acting as a link for the first character of each
species name:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
When a user click on one of them, it should be readable (eg. using
$_GET??) into a common variable for
them all that can then be used for a select statement. The rest of
displaying the
results in columns I already have working fine.
What suggestions do you have for typical code that should work?
Not quite sure what your problem is, you just need to add a filter to
the where clause of your query. I don't think MySQL has STARTING 'A',
but it certainly has LIKE 'A%', so just get each letter to return a link
containing it's letter and use that to select the 'page' of names you want.
$a = $_GET['letter'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM SPECIES WHERE NAME LIKE '$a%'";
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