Question

All I’m trying to do is a query for my table that contains 6 columns with a condition that has to be met by 3 of those columns

my table’s information
table name My_table columns a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6

the code I have tried is below, doesn’t work of course

$myquery = "SELECT * FROM My_table WHERE a2='$variable1' AND a3='$variable2' AND a6='$variable3' ORDER BY a2 ASC";
$myresult = mysql_query($myquery);

my result has to contain the rows that met the conditions above.

What is the right way to do this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ok this is how I made it work, it works great for me so it could help you too.

Since I’m comparing 3 columns of my table with 3 variables and I know that they are fix and has to meet those conditions exactly and in that order, I made a string of the 3 columns I’m searching in UPPER case then did the same with my variables then compare the against each other, that gave me the result I was looking for.

here is the solution code to my problem:

$myquery = "SELECT a2 a3 a6 FROM My_table WHERE concat(UPPER(a2), UPPER(a3), UPPER(a6)) LIKE concat(UPPER('$variable1'), UPPER('$variable2'), UPPER('$variable3')) ORDER BY a2 ASC";

$myresult = mysql_query($myquery);

Hopes it helps someone else too.