Question

I need to do a few things here and I’m confused on how this should work.

Here are the variables I need to work with:

Date Range
Employee ID
Team

and a possible additional search term (acct_number=’$_REQUEST[q]’) if someone wants to search for a specific account number.

Each variable is populated with a drop down select, the first option being * for all records. The dates are set using a date picker, calendar style, and it’s automatically set as date 1=seven days ago and date 2=today.

My query:

SELECT * FROM table
WHERE job_date BETWEEN '$search_date1' AND '$search_date2' AND
    employee_id='$searched_employee' AND team='$searched_team' AND
    acct_number='$_REQUEST[q]'
ORDER BY employee_id desc

I know the records are there but my search still returns no records. After the date, the AND employee_id=’$searched_employee’ could be * so it should return all records and the same goes for the team.

Echoing the variables to try make sure something was set gives me this:
No records found for “Employee” for dates between 2011-05-01 and 2011-05-31 and on team “Team”.

Can I not request more with AND in the Select statement after I use the BETWEEN?

Thanks in advance!

–Joel

Answer 1

You cannot use ‘*’ wildcard for WHERE clause.

Try using variables for conditions you put in your query, like:

if( is_numeric( $searched_employee ) )
  $employee_cond = " AND employee_id=$searched_employee";
else
  $employee_cond = "";

and put $employee_cond inside your query instead of AND employee_id='$searched_employee'.
Repeat for every condition you need.