Question

I’m not sure why this code isn’t working, so any help would be appreciated.

I want to search for a users username and also show the name of their character, which is store in the profile table.

$search = $_POST['search'];

$this->db->join('user_profiles', 'user_profiles.id = users.id');
$this->db->like('username',$search);
$this->db->or_like('user_profiles.character_name',$search);
$data['users'] = $this->db->get('users');

The page seems to fire fine without any errors, but no matter what I type into the search I get 0 results.

Solved: Nothing wrong with code, it was my form validation.

Answer 1

I suggest that you run the following after your $this->db->get()

echo $this->db->last_query();

This will allow you to debug your query which is being run. This will highlight problems with input criteria and the query itself.