Question

I am trying to run a query with multiple WHERE clauses. If I do a multiple search, it returns a record from a single criteria. I need this query to return a result that has ALL of the criteria instead of just one.

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Additionally, I have provided the code:

if (isset ( $_POST ["btnSearch"] )) {
echo "<br>Selected Options are :<br>";
$checked = $_POST ["criteria"];

$criteria = "";
$separator = ", ";
for($i = 0; $i < count ( $checked ); $i ++) {
    echo "  " . $checked [$i] . "<br/>";

    if ($i == count ( $checked ) - 1) {
        $separator = "";
    }

    $criteria = $criteria . "'" . $checked [$i] . "'" . $separator;
}
echo "<br><br>";

echo $criteria . "<br><br>";
include "config.php";

mysql_select_db ( "MyHead", $con );
//$DM = implode(',',$criteria);
$mysqlQuery = "SELECT tblRestaurants.RestName, tblLocDet.LocationID, tblLocDet.DetailID, tblDetails.DetailName, tblRestaurants.RestName
FROM tblRestaurants INNER JOIN (tblLocations INNER JOIN (tblLocDet INNER JOIN tblDetails ON  tblLocDet.DetailID = tblDetails.DetailID) ON tblLocations.LocationID = tblLocDet.LocationID) ON  tblRestaurants.RestID = tblLocations.RestID
GROUP BY tblRestaurants.RestName, tblLocDet.LocationID, tblLocDet.DetailID, tblDetails.DetailName
 HAVING tblDetails.DetailName IN (" . $criteria . ");";

if (! $rs = mysql_query ( $mysqlQuery )) {
    echo "Cannot parse query";
} elseif (mysql_num_rows ( $rs ) == 0) {
    echo "No records found";
} else {
    echo "<table id=\"myTable\" table width=\"710\" class=\"beautifuldata\" align=\"Left\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n";
    echo "<thead>\n<tr>";
    echo "<th>PLACE</th>";
    echo "<th>ADDRESS</th>";
    echo "<th>PHONE</th>";
    echo "<th>PRICE</th>";
    echo "<th>RATING</th>";
    echo "</tr>\n</thead>\n";
    while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array ( $rs ) ) {
        echo "<tr><td><strong><a href='" . $row [RestPage] . "'>" . $row ['RestName'] . "</a></strong></td>";
        echo "<td>" . $row ['DetailName'] . "</td>";
        echo "<td>" . $row ['Phone'] . "</td>";
        echo "<td>" . $row ['Price'] . "</td>";
        echo "<td>" . $row ['Rating'] . "</td>";
        echo "</tr>";
    }
}
echo "</table><br />\n";

mysql_close ( $con );
}
?>

Tables:

tblRestaurants (RestID, RestName)
tblLocations (LocationID, CityID, AreaID, CuisineID)
tblLocDet (DetailID, LocationID)
tblDetails (DetailID, DetailName, DetailType)

Answer 1

To ensure that all the selected rows have all the items in the $criteria, one way to do so is to count those items in this criteria variable and then having a HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT DetailName) = $n, so that any selected rows should have all of them, something like:

SELECT 
  r.RestName, 
  ld.LocationID, 
  ld.DetailID, 
  d.DetailName
FROM tblRestaurants     AS r
INNER JOIN tblLocations AS l  ON r.RestID     = l.RestID
INNER JOIN tblLocDet    AS ld ON l.LocationID = ld.LocationID
INNER JOIN
(
  SELECT l.Locationid
  FROM tblLocDet l
  INNER JOIN tbldetails d ON l.detailid = d.detailid
  WHERE d.detailname IN ('det1', 'det2', 'det3')
  GROUP BY l.locationid
  HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT DetailName) = $n
)                       AS ld2 ON ld.locationid = ld2.locationid
INNER JOIN tblDetails   AS d   ON ld.DetailID   = d.DetailID   
GROUP BY r.RestName, 
         ld.LocationID, 
         ld.DetailID, 
         d.DetailName;

SQL Fiddle Demo.

This will give you something like:

| RESTNAME | LOCATIONID | DETAILID | DETAILNAME |
-------------------------------------------------
|     res1 |          1 |        1 |       det1 |
|     res1 |          1 |        2 |       det2 |
|     res1 |          1 |        3 |       det3 |

---

You can, however, shorten this query; for example if you remove the detailid, and detailname from the GROUP BY clause and use the GROUP_CONCAT to select them in one row concatenated with , like this:

SELECT 
  r.RestName, 
  ld.LocationID, 
  GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT d.DetailName separator ',') Details
FROM tblRestaurants     AS r
INNER JOIN tblLocations AS l  ON r.RestID     = l.RestID
INNER JOIN tblLocDet    AS ld ON l.LocationID = ld.LocationId
INNER JOIN tblDetails   AS d  ON ld.DetailID  = d.DetailID   
WHERE d.detailname IN ('det1', 'det2', 'det3')
GROUP BY r.RestName, 
         ld.LocationID
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT d.DetailName) = 3;

Updated SQL Fiddle Demo.

This will give you something like:

| RESTNAME | LOCATIONID |        DETAILS |
------------------------------------------
|     res1 |          1 | det3,det2,det1 |

Note that: the HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT d.DetailName) = 3 will give you all the rows that have all the details names = 3 if you want to get those rows that had at least change it to >=.