Question

look at this table please

table
|id| |name| |order|

i must get the rows, where name = something and order = somevalue

so i write

select `id` from `table` where `name` = 'something' and `order` = 'somevalue'

but depend on php logic, sometimes i need to get all rows, where name = something, independently of order value. i don’t want to change the query structure, because in practise there are many number of fields, and possible count of queries will become very big. so i want to save the structure of query, and when i need to select just by name, i want to write something like this:

select `id` from `table` where `name` = 'something' and `order` = any value 

is it possible?

thanks

Answer 1

Well, it’s kind of a hack, but if you really need to do this, it’ll work like this:

select `id` from `table` where `name` = 'something' and `order` = `order`

Then you’re just saying “wherever order is the same as itself”, so it’s always true.