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Posted by Alex on 10/23/70 11:53
That's sounds like exactly what I needed! I'll try that out now.
Thanks very much.
Alex
Geoff Berrow wrote:
> Message-ID: <1153390889.552937.42770@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> from
> tallalex85@gmail.com contained the following:
>
> >
> >I'm trying to design a very basic php script which displays the
> >contents of the table, then I want to enable the user to filter out
> >certain results. So I went about writing a MySQL query something like
> >.....WHERE gender="$gender" AND group="$group" and then wrote a
> >form which sets the variables $gender and $group. Now is there a way of
> >setting $gender and $group to something that would display the whole
> >table?
> >
> >And is this the right way of going about this? Or is there a better
> >way... Infact does anyone know of a good site that might guide me in
> >creating such a script?
>
> If you want to do this you'd probably be better of using the keyword
> LIKE and the wildcard (%) instead of the = sign alone
> for instance
> WHERE gender LIKE "$gender%"
>
> would match 'male' if you input 'm', 'ma', 'mal' or 'male'
>
> If it doesn't contain anything you would get all records.
> --
> Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
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