Question

I have a search form, where user can look up estates he owns (search by number or keyword).

Every estate in table has an user ID to identify the owner.

$userID variable (from login session).
$accessLevel variable (from login session). / checks if user is admin
$req variable (keyword from form input)

SELECT esName, esID, esAddress FROM estates WHERE
    (esName LIKE '$req' OR esID LIKE '$req')
    AND userID='$userID'"

Now, my question is how to create an administrator access. Administrator can check all the existing estates, no matter who owns them. Is there any other option than independent queries for admins?

I have like 7 different queries for different databases (depends on radio button selection (for example: estates, payments, etc.)), and making another query for every single database would be a reall mess.

Answer 1

If you are looking for one query that works for both administrator and regular user.

$admin_access = 'true'; // if user is administrator
$admin_access = 'false'; // if user is not administrator

$query = "SELECT esName, esID, esAddress FROM estates WHERE
    (esName LIKE '$req' OR esID LIKE '$req')
    AND (userID='$userID' OR $admin_access)";