Question

I’m using the following query to find users in the ‘Employer’ table:

$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$query = "SELECT password, salt
        FROM Employer
        WHERE Employer_Name = '$username';";

I have a second table called Clients (with the password & salt fields as well as a username field) , is it possible to search both tables for a single username?

(If any more information is required then let me know)

Answer 1

I think what you need here is a UNION:

SELECT password, salt, 'employer' as user_type
FROM Employer
WHERE Employer_Name = '$username'
UNION
SELECT password, salt, 'client' as user_type
FROM Clients
WHERE Clients_Name = '$username'