One Search String/Multiple Fields

Question

Hello! What I am trying to do is create a query page for my
users that allows them to enter one search string (var=#string#)
and then click checkboxes that correspond to the field values that
they want to search for the string in (var=#paramSelect#).
Unfortunately I haven't been able to make this work correctly and
was hoping that someone here might be able to help me with this. So
far I have tried the following methods:

Answer 1

Dan, I don't think that I am being clear here (or I have
completely misinterpreted what you are trying to say). The problem
that I am trying to overcome right now is having to put each field
into the statement on my results page. Currently the question of
using AND or OR is not a big problem for me. What I DO want to do
is pass the variable #paramSelect# which contains the values from
each of the checked checkboxes from my search page. These values
are the field names in my DB. When a user selects a checkbox, the
value of that checkbox is being passed to my output via
#paramSelect#, so if one checkbox is checked then I get
#paramSelect# equal to field1. If two or more checkboxes are
checked by the user then the value of #paramSelect# becomes a list
of the values (i.e. field1,field3,field5) - this is the dynamic
part that I am having trouble with. With your suggestion what I am
doing is hard-coding each of the field values into my results page:
AND
form.field1 LIKE '%#String#%'
OR form.field2 ....
when what I want to do is have the values passed from the
#paramSelect# variable, separated from the list, and dynamically
inserted into the code. For example:
say that #paramSelect# is passed and contains the values
field1,field3,field5
I would like to write a loop that will separate each value
contained in #paramSelect#
i.e.(field1) (field3) (field5)
and then build the WHERE from these, allowing me to place
something like my previous example:
<cfif FORM.paramSelect IS NOT ""></cfif>
WHERE 1=1
<cfloop list="#FORM.paramSelect#" delimiters=","
index="i">
AND <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar"
value="'#i#'">
LIKE '%#FORM.String#%'
</cfloop>
The idea when I built that statement was that the values
would be separated when the delimiter was reached (,) stored in the
variable #i# and it would loop through the list contained within
#paramSelect#. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be doing this
because I get 0 records returned even when I search on just 1
field. My main reason for trying to do it this way is the fact that
this DB is going to grow and the available fields are going to
change. If I can store all of this in a variable and pass that to
both the SELECT, WHERE, and a dynamic output table, then it
relieves a lot of headaches and time going through and changing
code in the future. Currently I have the dynamic SELECT and output
tables built, but the WHERE part of the SQL statement is causing
problems.
Thanks again for your input!