Re: Re: SELECT query

Bastien Koert wrote:

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@actsministries.org

wrote:

One more thing ... Bible is stored by verses, t is the text of the verse On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 19:52 -0500, Ron Piggott wrote:

I am working on a web based Bible searching query. So far I am able to generate: SELECT * FROM bible_verses INNER JOIN bible_books ON bible_books.id = bible_verses.b WHERE t IN ( 'Lord' , 'Jesus' ) LIMIT 0 , 10 Is an "IN" the correct syntax to use?

This will work fine. An "IN" clause is like multiple OR's: ... where t = 'Lord' OR t = 'Jesus' ...

I am trying to take what the user types in (variable is $keyword_search) and allow a search where if the same 2 or 3 words are in the verse of the Bible that verse would be a match, but not necessarily be beside each other. $keyword_search_string = str_replace(" ", "' , '", $keyword_search); $query .= "IN ( '" . $keyword_search_string . "' ) ";

This will seem a little long winded but you need to check for sql injection. As it stands, you'll get an error when you search for a name with a quote (o'reilly). Might not be in the bible (I have no idea) but doesn't mean someone won't try it ;) // look at the keywords one by one - they are space separated $keywords = explode(' ', $keyword_search); // now go through them all and escape them. $keyword_searches = array(); foreach ($keywords as $keyword) { $keyword_searches[] = mysql_real_escape_string($keyword); } // then turn it all into an "IN" string. $keyword_search_string = "IN ('" . implode("','", $keyword_searches) . "')"; You may want to eventually look at full text searching, depending on how slow this is and how important search is to your site. The syntax is completely different. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/