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Clean Up resets the
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a few sensible
records.

Person Table
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Date-Search

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Date Search

SELECT first_name, last_name, date_of_birth FROM person WHERE date_of_birth < '' ORDER BY date_of_birth

First Name

Last Name

DOB

Code Listing : personDateSearch.php

<?php
  $search_text = htmlentities($_POST['search_text']);
  
  require "../MySQL_Login.php";    // Contains host, username, password, and database
  $link   = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password) or die(mysql_error());
  mysql_select_db ($database) or die(mysql_error());
  $sql    = 
"SELECT first_name, last_name, date_of_birth FROM 
  person 
WHERE
  date_of_birth < '$search_text'
ORDER BY
  date_of_birth";
	       
  $result = mysql_query($sql, $link) or die(mysql_error());
  
  mysql_close($link);
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Date Search</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>

<?php
  include "nav.php";
  echo "<h2>Date Search</h2>";
  echo"<font size=\"+2\"><b><pre>$sql</pre></b></font>";
?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
    <tr> 
      <td><div align="right">Enter a date - people born before this date will 
          be listed (YYYY-MM-DD)</div></td>
      <td>
        <input name="search_text" type="text" id="search_text" 
	 value="<?php echo $search_text;  ?>">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td colspan="2"><div align="right"> 
          <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
        </div></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

  <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
    <tr>
      <td><h3>First Name</h3></td>
      <td><h3>Last Name</h3></td>
      <td><h3>DOB</h3></td>
    </tr>

<?php 
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) 
  {
    echo "    <tr>\n";
    echo "      <td>" . $row['first_name']    . "</td>\n";
    echo "      <td>" . $row['last_name']     . "</td>\n";
    echo "      <td>" . $row['date_of_birth'] . "</td>\n";
    echo "    </tr>\n";
  }
?>

  </table>

<?php
  include "dump.php";
  dump_page(basename($_SERVER[SCRIPT_FILENAME]));  // Display the code of this page
?>

</body>
</html>

Enter a date - people born before this date will be listed (YYYY-MM-DD)