Help with multiple parameter search recordset

Question

I have a mysql table being searched by two fields City and
State
using dreamweaver, I have set up a form with a text field as
city and a list as state and I have them being passed with the get
method.
The problem is on the results page, I have a recordset SELECT
* FROM table name. What do I do with the WHERE, I have tried
multiple configurations, and I can't get anything to work. I only
want to search by two fields, city and state. The state has to
match, but if the city is left blank, I still want to filter by
state.
Can somebody help me or point me in the right direction,
please?

Answer 1

SaigonJeff wrote:
> Oops... sorry!
>
> I'm using PHP / MySQL
>
> PHP 4.3.4
> MySQL 4.1
>
> Thanks for the help...
I was going to suggest a Stored Procedure approach, as that
is how I
always approach filtering, but I use MS SQL, and I don't know
if/how to
do it in MySQL.
The first part is fairly easy:
SELECT *
FROM yourTable
WHERE Column1 = MMColParam OR Column2 = MMColParam OR Column3
= MMColParam
Obviously this will match the entire value of MMColParam to
the entire
value of any 3 of the columns. If you want to latch the value
of
MMColParam to any part of the columns contents, you need to
do this:
SELECT *
FROM yourTable
WHERE Column1 LIKE '%' + MMColParam + '%' OR Column2 LIKE '%'
+
MMColParam + '%' OR Column3 LIKE '%' + MMColParam + '%'
This doesn't include the filter. How do you want to the
filter to work?
Steve