PHP&MySQL left/substring etc problem

PHP&MySQL left/substring etc problem
Hello,
I need your help about PHP (ver 4.3.1) and MySQL (ver 3.23) database.
I am struggling to customise a database (using left command etc), and am
stuck now.
Please have a brief look at my scripts below.

What I do like to do is to get first 3 letters from "loc1" column from
openart_table (MySQL).
And show the data in the follwoing part...
<td><? echo $row["loc1"]; ?><br></td>

but also I would like to make hyperlinks to jpg files to images/"the first 3
letters from loc1".jpg
So it will be something like this...
<td>
<a href="/image/<? echo $row["loc1"]; ?>.jpg"><? echo $row["loc1"];
?></a><br>
</td>

But when I tried, "select left (loc1,3) from openart_table where......"
doesnt work properly.
I do not want to destroy anything for the rest of the table.
I need all data from "tit1", "pub1", "id1", and "ref1" in each column.

Could you help me, please?

---------------------------------------------PHP script from here
<html>
<body>
<table border="1" bordercolor="black" cellspacing="0" align="center"
BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" width="900">
<tr bgcolor="#ffcc66">
<td align="center"><b>ID No</b><br></td>
<td align="center" BGCOLOR="#CC3366"><b>Book Title</b><br></td>
<td align="center"><b>Publisher</b><br></td>
<td align="center"><b>ID</b><br></td>
<td align="center"><b>Reference</b><br></td>
<td align="center" width="10%"><b>Location</b><br></td>
</tr>

<?
mysql_connect(localhost,root,cheers);
mysql_select_db(openart);
if($tit == "" &&
$res == "" &&
$pub == "" &&
$date == "" &&
$id == "" &&
$ref == "" &&
$loc == "" &&
$type == "" &&
$vol == "" &&
$fre == "" &&
$note == "")
{
echo 'Type something';
}

elseif($tit == "%" || $res == "%" || $pub == "%" || $date == "%" || $id ==
"%" ||
$ref == "%" || $loc == "%" || $type == "%" || $vol == "%" || $fre ==
"%" || $note == "%"){
echo 'Not Valid';
}

else{
if($tit == ""){
$tit = '%';
}
if($res == ""){
$res = '%';
}
if($pub == ""){
$pub = '%';
}
if($date == ""){
$date = '%';
}
if($id == ""){
$id = '%';
}
if($ref == ""){
$ref = '%';
}
if($loc == ""){
$loc = '%';
}
if($type == ""){
$type = '%';
}
if($vol == ""){
$vol = '%';
}
if($fre == ""){
$fre = '%';
}
if($note == ""){
$note = '%';
}
$result = mysql_query("select * from openart_table
where tit1   like '%$tit%'
and res1   like '%$res%'
and pub1  like '%$pub%'
and date1  like '%$date%'
and id1   like '%$id%'
and ref1  like '%$ref%'
and loc1  like '%$loc%'
and type1   like '%$type%'
and vol1  like '%$vol%'
and fre1  like '%$fre%'
and note1   like '%$note%' order by tit1");

$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo $rows,"Records Found <p>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td><a href = "openart_detail.php ?iden=<? echo $row["openart_id"] ?>"><?
echo $row["openart_id"]; ?></a><br></td>
<td><? echo $row["tit1"]; ?><br></td>
<td><? echo $row["pub1"]; ?><br></td>
<td><? echo $row["id1"]; ?><br></td>
<td><? echo $row["ref1"]; ?><br></td>
<td><? echo $row["loc1"]; ?><br></td>
</tr>
<?
}
}
?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

----------------------------------------------------end of script
Post Follow-up to this message
Sugimoto
04-19-05 08:57 AM