Plz help me about PHP

Question

I want to make search with one input text and some checkbox, use php and mysql. Plz give me a sample to make a query mysql.
My html code
<form method='POST' action='search.php'>
<input type="text" name="key"> <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="box[]" value="firstname"> fname
<input type="checkbox" name="box[]" value="lastname"> lname
<input type="checkbox" name="box[]" value="name"> name
</form>
Help me php tks.

Answer 1

// Basic pHp query to select items

$items = "php" ;

$query = "SELECT * FROM db_table where name like '$items%';