Creating a site to query a database of tables

Question

I have a small problem. I am working with some manual testers who are untrained in programming/database design. Our current process means that these manual testers need to i

Answer 1

I think you could achieve this with a simple form and some ajax calls using on key up. Here is a simple example in which the list will update each time the user enters a letter in the column name they are searching for.

Index.html

next we need a script to carry out our search

ajax-search.php

    //you must define your database settings
define("DB_HOST", "FOO");
define("DB_USERNAME", "BAR");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "YOUR PASSWORD");
define("DB_NAME", "DATABASE NAME");
if(isset($_GET['keyword']))
    {
        $search = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
            if ($search->connect_errno)
            {
                echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $search->connect_errno . ") " . $search->connect_error;
                $search->close();
            }
                $keyword =  trim($_GET['keyword']) ;
                $query ="SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM ".DB_NAME.".INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%".$keyword."%'";
                $values = $search->query($query);
                    if($values->num_rows != 0)
                    {
                        while($row = $values->fetch_assoc())
                        { 
                            echo $row['COLUMN_NAME']."
";
                        } 
                    }
                    else
                        {
                            echo 'No Results for :"'.$_GET['keyword'].'"';
                        }
    }

As the user types out a column name all of the column name like this will be returned and updated on the fly, without page reload. Hope this helps