Ok you need to use PHP to decide what they have selected and construct a sql
statement based on that.
for instance
if ($location != "" && $discipline != "") :
//construct variable with sql statement
elseif ($location == "" && $discipline != ""):
//construct variable with sql statement
elseif ($location !="" && $discipline == "");
//construct variable with sql statement
else :
// nothing selected
endif;
hth
Jon
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Database query
> Hi group,
>
> I am still getting to grips with PHP and MySQL and have a question that
hopefully someone can easily answer:
>
> I have a search page which consists of two drop down menus, the user has 3
ways of finding information.
>
> The first is by selecting a location and a discipline which would look in
the database and return any entries with the data in the two seperate
fields.
>
> The second is where they can select the location only, and this will
return all entries with that location
>
> The third is where they can select the discipline only, and again this
will return all entries with that discipline.
>
> The problem I have is when the user selects the location and a discipline
which should return no results as it is not an exact match it is returning
results as it contains part of the information.
>
> My sql query is as follows: $sql = "SELECT * FROM vacancy WHERE
('$related_discipline' = related_discipline and '$location' = location) or
('$related_discipline' = related_discipline) or ('$location' = location)
ORDER BY ID LIMIT $limitvalue1, $limit";
>
> Could someone tell me what I need to change?
>
> Again help is always appreciated.
>
>
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