Question

I would like to Select rows where a value is being returned. If they have chosen Male or Female in the select box, I would want it to search for that. That part is working fine. However, if they choose Either, I want it to say that MySQL should look if the column contains Male or Female and return any results.

Please note that I do not want to use OR statements inside the query if possible based on how the code is being written out.

I tried the below, but it did not seem to work. The values are coming from a select box in a form which has Either, Male or Female.

if ($postgender == "either")
{
    $male = "Male";
    $female = "Female";
    $postgenderuse = ($male || $female);
}
else {
    $postgenderuse = $postgender;
}

$query4 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tennis WHERE gender='$postgenderuse' ORDER BY playerid DESC LIMIT 0,20");

Answer 1

start creating the query from statements, also check if the form is sending one of the 3 values (just to make sure)

if ($postgender == "Either")
{
    $postgenderuse = " ( `gender`='Male' OR `gender`='Female' ) ";
}
elseif ($postgender == "Male" || $postgender == "Female") {
    $postgenderuse = " `gender`='".$postgender."' ";
}
else {
    die('Error, no gender selected');
}

$query4 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tennis` WHERE ".$postgenderuse." ORDER BY `playerid` DESC LIMIT 0,20");