Question

I have a script that searches for users in the db. I have two input fields so that I can search for e.g. city and house number. What I want is that if I type e.g. London in the city field and the number 20 it returns the record with London AND 20 in it. I’m not quite sure how to achieve this. I did enough research on Google but still didn’t find the answer.

Here is my code:

if($_GET['search'] != ''){
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM klant WHERE klant_id LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR             voornaam LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR achternaam LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR email LIKE '%"        .$search."%' OR plaats LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR bedrijfsnaam LIKE '%" .$search."%'ORDER BY       klant_id DESC");


$result2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM klant WHERE klant_id LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR voornaam   LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR achternaam LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR email LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR   plaats LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR bedrijfsnaam LIKE '%" .$search2."%'ORDER BY klant_id DESC");
$i = 0;

}

What I need is something that will give the proper $result where those two search values ($search and $search2) are combined. Thus allowing me to search much easier.

Hope that i phrased my question well enough for you to understand me and I hope that you can help me!

Answer 1

Please try with the following logic –

if($_GET['search'] != ''){
$search = $_GET['search'];
$where[] = "( klant_id LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR  voornaam LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR achternaam LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR email LIKE '%"        .$search."%' OR plaats LIKE '%" .$search."%' OR bedrijfsnaam LIKE '%" .$search."%' ) ";
}
if($_GET['search2'] != ''){
$search2 = $_GET['search2'];
$where[] = " ( klant_id LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR voornaam   LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR achternaam LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR email LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR   plaats LIKE '%" .$search2."%' OR bedrijfsnaam LIKE '%" .$search2."%') ";
}
$query_where = (is_array($where))?" WHERE ".implode(" AND ", $where):""; 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM klant ".$query_where." ORDER BY klant_id DESC");