Question

Good day!

Iam making a query wherein the parameters will be stored in the ARRAY. My code is as follows:

    $conditions = array();
    if ($event != ''){
        $conditions[] = "event LIKE '%$event%'";   //ERROR HERE?
    }
    if ($event_name != 'Choose Category') {
        $conditions[] = 'event_name = "'.$event_name.'"';
    }
    if ($event_startDate != '') {
        $conditions[] = 'event_startDate = "'.$event_startDate.'"';
    }
    if ($event_endDate != '') {
        $conditions[] = 'event_endDate = "'.$event_endDate.'"';
    }

    $query = "SELECT *
          FROM eventlist 
          WHERE event_share = 1".implode(' AND ', $conditions); //IS THIS CORRECT?

    $result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error: Query failed');

There’s already previous questions regarding this and i’ve already tried most of the answers there (I’ve tried so many combinations already). But still I cannot produce the results I desired. My first error is the LIKE.. Also, I am having error with my query statement. What I want is to combine all the parameters based on what user desired. If the user did not input any parameters, it will be catched by my IF statements.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Your code above may generate somewhat query like as follows:

$query = "SELECT *
          FROM eventlist 
          WHERE event_share = 1  event like '%xyz%' "

that is you are missing AND before event…

suggestions:
1.) it would be better if you add some error code too
2.) use following code for $query:

$conditions[] = 'event_share = 1';
$query = "SELECT *
          FROM eventlist 
          WHERE ".implode(' AND ', $conditions);