Question

My users can search for an order by an address right now. What I would like to do is let them be able to search with multiple criteria. Let them search by address, city, state, etc etc.

I have tried using the following code, but it doesn’t seem to work.

$sql = ("SELECT order_number, sitestreet FROM  `PropertyInfo` WHERE  `sitestreet` LIKE '%$street%' OR `sitecity` LIKE '%$city%' AND `user` LIKE '$user'");

$result = mysql_query($sql);

I don’t think it’s reading the value in $user cause it displays all orders for all users.

How can I make it possible to search for an order using multiple serach values?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Wrap your OR statements in parenthesis so it forms one top-level condition, the user is the other top-level condition:

$sql = '
  SELECT 
    `order_number`, 
    `sitestreet` 
  FROM  
    `PropertyInfo` 
  WHERE  
     (
        `sitestreet` LIKE "%'.$street.'%" OR 
        `sitecity` LIKE "%'.$city.'%"
     ) AND 
     `user` = '.$user;

Also note, you want a direct match to the user column, use = instead of LIKE. I am assuming that $user is a numeric ID…