Question

I have several different filters and search functions that I need to generate mysql queries for. I am wondering if there is a class or library I can use.

For example if they input there email with a date I need to add WHERE email='email' AND date`=’date’ in the middle of the sql query. But if they also enter a city then I need to add that.

I was thinking put everything I need to search by in an array and then imploding it by AND ? Does anyone have any better suggestion?

Answer 1

I use Zend_Db for that sort of thing. Quick example, using Zend_Db_Select:

$select = $db->select()->from("users");
if($email) {
    $select->where('email = ?', $email);
}
if($date) {
    $select->where('date = ?', $date);
}
// etc

// show query
// will output something like SELECT * from `users` WHERE email = 'email' AND date = 'date'
print_r($select->__toString()); 

// execute
$results = $db->fetchAll($select);
print_r($results);