Question

I currently have multiple search fields within one form which the user can pick and choose which one to filter, everything works perfectly until I add the date range to it. If I add the date range alone without any other fields to filter it works so I know it is not that I am writing the query wrong. Please help me figure this out. THANKS!

This is the query that works: (Also for some reason doing SELECT * won’t work, I have to type the name of all the fields I want to show)

It includes the part of the form that includes the date range.

<li class="form-line form-line-column" id="id_29">
    <label class="form-label-top" id="label_29" for="input_30">
        From Date:
    </label>
    <div id="cid_29" class="form-input-wide">
        <input type="text" class="form-textbox validate" id="datepicker" name="from_date" size="10" />
    </div>
</li>
<li class="form-line form-line-column" id="id_29">
    <label class="form-label-top" id="label_29" for="input_8">
        To Date:
    </label>
    <div id="cid_29" class="form-input-wide">
        <input type="text" class="form-textbox validate" id="datepicker2" name="to_date" size="10" />
    </div>
</li> 

<?php
    $sso = $_GET['sso'];
    $assigned_to = $_GET['assigned_to'];
    $case_status = $_GET['case_status'];
    $startdate = $_GET['from_date'];
    $enddate = $_GET['to_date'];
    $subject = $_GET['subject'];

    $sql = ("SELECT 
                id, sso, full_name, case_status, assigned_to, resolution, 
                description, updated, created, additional_notes, subject
            FROM rmstable2
            WHERE 
                sso LIKE '%$sso%' AND
                case_status LIKE '%$case_status%' AND
                assigned_to LIKE '%$assigned_to%' AND
                subject LIKE '%$subject%'");
?>

This is the query I want:

<?php
    $sql = ("SELECT 
                id, sso, full_name, case_status, assigned_to, resolution, 
                description, updated, created, additional_notes, subject
             FROM rmstable2
             WHERE 
                sso LIKE '%$sso%' AND
                case_status LIKE '%$case_status%' AND
                assigned_to LIKE '%$assigned_to%' AND
                subject LIKE '%$subject%'
                AND created >= '$startdate'
                AND created <= '$enddate'");
?>

Answer 1

use BETWEEN for that and don’t forget to wrap the dates with DATE( )

$sql = ("SELECT id, sso, full_name, case_status, assigned_to, 
                resolution, description, updated, created, 
                additional_notes, subject 
        FROM  rmstable2 
        WHERE sso LIKE '%$sso%' AND 
              case_status LIKE '%$case_status%' AND 
              assigned_to LIKE '%$assigned_to%' AND 
              subject LIKE '%$subject%' AND 
              DATE(created) BETWEEN DATE('$startdate') AND DATE('$enddate')");

UPDATE 1

how about changing AND to OR

$sql = ("SELECT id, sso, full_name, case_status, assigned_to, 
                resolution, description, updated, created, 
                additional_notes, subject 
        FROM  rmstable2 
        WHERE sso LIKE '%$sso%' OR 
              case_status LIKE '%$case_status%' OR
              assigned_to LIKE '%$assigned_to%' OR 
              subject LIKE '%$subject%' OR
              (DATE(created) BETWEEN DATE('$startdate') AND DATE('$enddate'))");