Ajax autosuggest/autocomplete from database - problem

[defroster]

Hello,

 

I am trying to implement some code I found and downloaded here:

http://www.roscripts.com/Ajax_autosuggest_autocomplete_from_database-154.html

 

When I try and run this I get no search results back when searching? I have entered data in the database and all connections seem good. Several people in the comments say they have problems, but no solution.

 

Any one that can find the fault here?

 

- THANKS

 

<?php
require_once('db.php');
include('classes/stem.php');
include('classes/cleaner.php');

if( !empty ( $_POST['search'] ) ):

	$string = $_POST['search'];
	$main_url = 'http://www.roscripts.com/';

	$stemmer = new Stemmer;
	$stemmed_string = $stemmer->stem ( $string );

	$clean_string = new jSearchString();
	$stemmed_string = $clean_string->parseString ( $stemmed_string );		

	$new_string = '';
	foreach ( array_unique ( split ( " ",$stemmed_string ) ) as $array => $value )
	{
		if(strlen($value) >= 3)
		{
			$new_string .= ''.$value.' ';
		}
	}

	$new_string = substr ( $new_string,0, ( strLen ( $new_string ) -1 ) );

	if ( strlen ( $new_string ) > 3 ):

		$split_stemmed = split ( " ",$new_string );
	        
	        mysql_select_db($database); 
		$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(*) as occurences, title, subtitle FROM articles WHERE (";
	             
		while ( list ( $key,$val ) = each ( $split_stemmed ) )
		{
	              if( $val!='' && strlen ( $val ) > 0 )
	              {
	              	$sql .= "((title LIKE '%".$val."%' OR subtitle LIKE '%".$val."%' OR content LIKE '%".$val."%')) OR";
	              }
		}

		$sql=substr ( $sql,0, ( strLen ( $sql )-3 ) );//this will eat the last OR
		$sql .= ") GROUP BY title ORDER BY occurences DESC LIMIT 10";

		$query = mysql_query($sql) or die ( mysql_error () );
		$row_sql = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $query );
		$total = mysql_num_rows ( $query );

		if($total>0):

		        echo '	<div class="entry">'."\n";
			echo '		<ul>'."\n";
				while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc ( $query ) ) 
				{				
					echo '			<li>'."\n";
					echo '				<a href="'.$main_url.'articles/show/'.$row['id'].'">'.$row['title'].''."\n";
					echo '				<em>'.$row['subtitle'].'</em>'."\n";
					echo '				<span>Added on 2007-06-03 by roScripts</span></a>'."\n";
					echo '			</li>'."\n";				
				}

			echo '		</ul>'."\n";
			echo '	</div>'."\n";
		endif;
	endif;
endif;	
?>

 

The code can be found in attached zip file.

 

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