Question

I hope someone can help with the following. I’m trying to create a user-specific search feature. When someone is logged in, they can run a search which should return results from either the customer_ref or order_details columns.

I have tried the following, but it returns results from different customers.

SELECT *
FROM `job` 
WHERE c_name = 'John Doe'
AND customer_ref LIKE '%do%'
OR order_details LIKE '%do%'

I want to restrict the results to a specific customer (for obvious reasons). If I remove the bottom line (OR order_details LIKE '%do%'), the results are locked into the customer correctly, however, when it’s there I get results including other customer names.

Note that %do% is just a wildcard search term indicating door or Doreen (for testing). In the actual code it would be the value entered in the search box.

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to include round brackets in your query to clarify on what terms you are searching:

SELECT *
FROM `job` 
WHERE c_name = 'John doe'
AND (customer_ref LIKE '%do%'
OR order_details LIKE '%do%')