Dynamic link creation in PHP and Mysql from more than one table

Question

I am beginner in PHP. I have created a search bar for a website. But i have no clue how to create a dynamic link for the results. I am able to fetch the data from around 4-5 tables. how to create a dynamic link for 4 tables(mysql).

Thanks in advance.

Any help on this is highly appreciated.

$query = $_GET['query'];       
$min_length = 3;

if(strlen($query) >= $min_length){
     $query = htmlspecialchars($query); 
     $query = mysql_real_escape_string($query);
     $sql = mysql_query(
           "SELECT id,title,brief,description,time,image1 
            FROM news 
            WHERE (`brief` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`description` LIKE '%".$query."%') 
            UNION 
            SELECT id,title,brief,description,time,image1 
            FROM articles 
            WHERE (`brief` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`description` LIKE '%".$query."%')  
            UNION 
            SELECT id,title,brief,description,time,image1 
            FROM interview 
            WHERE (`brief` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`description` LIKE '%".$query."%') 
            UNION 
            SELECT id,title,NULL,description,NULL,NULL 
            FROM academy 
            WHERE (`title` LIKE '%".$query."%') OR (`description` LIKE '%".$query."%') 
            ORDER BY id DESC ")  
           or die(mysql_error());

     if(mysql_num_rows($sql) > 0){ 
         while($results = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
             echo "<p><h3>".$results['title']."</h3><br>".$results['brief']."".$results['time']."</p>";
         }
     } else { 
         echo "No Results Found";
     }

} else {
     echo "Minimum length is ".$min_length;
}

Answer 1

Your article URL should look like this: " http://websiteurl.com/category(news,articles)/123(product-id)/short-title-for-seo ". I'd recommand you to put the id of the selected material and the category as the main filter when showing the content. To get the table name (or to convert the table name to a category alias) you can do something like this: SELECT 'table1' as tableName from table1

Answer 2

First thing to know is if you want to display a dynamic data from database, you have to store a url for a perticular $result['title'] which has to be wrapped around an anchor tag <a> . For example: <?php echo '<a href='.$result['url'].'><h3>'.$result['title'].'</h3></a>';?>

Or some part of the url can be hard coded and point to the title's id in the last part of the url. For example: <?php echo '<a href=http://www.your-domain/content/index.php?id='.$result['id'].'><h3>'.$result['title'].'</h3></a>';

Later you must create a new page which $_GET s the slug from the url and display the description or full details.