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    copied!<p>I have a search engine with an html form that sends data to a PHP script the queries a MySQL database. In the html form, I have a option that allows multiple selections. Thus far, I have put square brackets after the name in the HTML in order to make it an array. But I think there is a problem in the PHP because results are not correct.</p> <p>HTML</p> <pre><code>&lt;select multiple="multiple" name='category[]'&gt; &lt;option&gt;Literature&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;History&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Science&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Fine Arts&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Trash&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Mythology&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Phylosophy&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Social Science&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Religion&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option&gt;Geography&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>search.php</p> <pre><code>$button = $_GET ['submit']; $search = $_GET ['search']; } if(strlen($search)&lt;=1) echo "Search term too short"; else{ echo "You searched for &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;$search&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and "; mysql_connect("fake","fake","fake"); mysql_select_db("quinterestdb");} mysql_real_escape_string($search); $search_exploded = explode (" ", $search); foreach($search_exploded as $search_each) { $x++; if($x==1) $construct .="Answer LIKE '%$search_each%'"; else $construct .="AND Answer LIKE '%$search_each%'"; } $cat = $_GET ['category']; $comma_separated = implode("','", $cat); $constructs ="SELECT * FROM tossups WHERE $construct AND Category IN('$comma_separated')"; $run = mysql_query($constructs); </code></pre> <p>When I use the search engine, the script runs just fine, but there are still results that have categories that were not selected. Any idea?</p>
 

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