Thanks everyone for your attention but still at the 1st step. What I want (not need but want) is to keep my code as short as possible for future referencing from others. Looking at some on-line manuals I found this just now:
(^|[^a-zA-Z])foo([^a-zA-Z]|$) which Works if you want to find "foo" in "foo bar", "bar foo", "bar foo bar", or "foo" but NOT in "foobar" or "barfoo". I guess that just by taking out the *foo* word between them can make it work for quite a useful wildcard. What do you think pals? C. > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:06 AM > To: 'César Aracena' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Wildcard > > Theres no point selecting on a value if they've not specified one. The > following code should generate a valid query, assumin that the default > value for each value select value is an empty string: > > $query = "SELECT * FROM table_name "; > > $where_string = "WHERE "; > $and = ""; > if ($select1 != "") { > $where_string .= $and."col1 = '".addslashes($select1)."'"; > $and = " AND "; > } > if ($select2 != "") { > $where_string .= $and."col2 = '".addslashes($select2)."'"; > $and = " AND "; > } > if ($select3 != "") { > $where_string .= $and."col3 = '".addslashes($select3)."'"; > $and = " AND "; > } > > if ($where_string != "WHERE ") { > $query .= $where_string; > } > > And then run the query as normal. > > HTH, > > Richy > > ========================================== > Richard Black > Systems Programmer, DataVisibility Ltd - http://www.datavisibility.com > Tel: 0141 435 3504 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: César Aracena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 10 July 2002 11:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Wildcard > > > Ok. Maybe I didn't express myself well (must be the 3-4 days awake ;) > > No, I don't have an example on-line 'couse this is something I'll start > doing in a few days or hours. Well, just what it will probably be the > search options at: http://www.icaam.com.ar/proyects/os-seek/ which I > posted a few hours ago. > > What I want, is to let the visitor search for an OS developer by > WORK-AROUND and/or LANGUAGE and/or LOCATION and have just ONE static > query to handle all this. The thing is that if I make the query like > this: > > SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE col1 = $elect1 AND col2 = $select2 AND > col3 = $select3 > > I think maybe the script will go nuts if no option was selected > (remember the and/or?). So I figured out that maybe by telling HTML that > the default value of each SELECT box is % (or any kind of wildcard) the > query might run as predicted. Does this makes ant sense now? > > Please go to the site I've mentioned before and afterwards (if have the > time and will) go back a couple of dozens post back and read the post > called *MORE WORK FOR US I HOPE* so you have a more clear understanding > of what my need will be. > > Thanks, C. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:27 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PHP] Re: Wildcard > > > > why put in your query you want to look for an value .. if they don't > want > > to > > look for it ?.. > > > > > > vins writes: > > > > > Shit..... > > > Doesn't really make sense > > > Sorry... I probably don't understand > > > > > > do you have an online example. > > > > > > > > > "César aracena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > 000101c227fb$74eed940$68ed0dd1@gateway">news:000101c227fb$74eed940$68ed0dd1@gateway... > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to do a search trough a MySQL db using > LIKE > > > or = but the thing is that I have 3 select boxes from where to > choose > > > the search terms. Can I use something like a wildcard instead of > making > > > several IF statements like this? > > > > > > SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE col1 = value1 AND col2 = value2 AND > col3 > > > = % > > > > > > % goes for an unselected select box (default value = %) in case the > user > > > doesn't want to make an *advanced* search, so it fetches all rows > which > > > does contains values 1 & 2. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cesar Aracena > > > CE / MCSE+I > > > Neuquen, Argentina > > > +54.299.6356688 > > > +54.299.4466621 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
