Re: search syntax

Great--it works now. Thanks very much, Tony. I appreciate your help. best, Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony <e_lists@mac.com> To: Matthew K. Gold <mgold1@gc.cuny.edu>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:01 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] search syntax > Try break up the query, like: > > WHERE (column1 LIKE '%$search%' OR column2 LIKE '%$search%' OR column3 LIKE > '%$search%') AND ... > > Tony S. Wu > > > Matthew K. Gold at mgold1@gc.cuny.edu wrote: > > > hi everyone, > > > > I'm writing the code to make my mysql database searchable. I can search two > > columns, but I seem to have problems when I try to search three. > > > > In the SELECT statement, this WHERE statement works: WHERE column1 OR > > column2 LIKE '%$search%' AND... > > > > This WHERE statement doesn't work: WHERE column1 OR column2 OR column3 LIKE > > '%$search%' AND ... > > > > I'm obviously having a syntax problem...Thanks in advance for your help. > > And in case any of this is confusing, I'll include the real code below. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > > > $get_data = "select course.CourseNumber, course.CourseTitle, > > concat(prof.ProfFName, \" \", prof.ProfLName), instit.InstitName, > > disc.DiscName, course.Format from course, disc, instit, prof where > > course.CourseTitle or course.CourseDesc or disc.DiscName like '%$search%' > > and course.DiscID = disc.DiscID and course.InstitID = instit.InstitID and > > course.ProfID = prof.ProfID order by $orderby"; > > > > > > > > > > > > >