In article <11**********************@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
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GustavoBrust wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm having a problem with a search I want to make.
It's like this:
The user can choose about 15 checkboxes to be his search pattern.
According to the combination of checkboxes checked, I must do a
different query.
Is it really necessary to make 15 if...else statements and type in a
query for every combination the user may choose?
If anyone knows any easier way to do it, please help me.
Thanks.
Gustavo.
You can post the checkboxes as one array from html, then in use foreach
with one if statement in it.
If you provide us the code it will be easier to determine ...
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Depending on the type of query you're building, you might not even need
foreach() ... maybe something like this...
<body>
<form
action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>"
method="post"
>
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="2" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="3" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="4" /><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
<pre>
<?php
print_r($_POST);
if(isset($_POST['id']) {
$query =
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE id='" .
implode("' OR id='",$_POST['id']) .
"'" ;
}
// do your query processing
?>
</pre>
</body>
Of course you'd want to do a bit of validation first. And there are
other issues, for example, escaping single quotes, depending on whether
nor not Magic Quotes is enabled on your server.
