My table example:
customer (id , name ....)
transactions (id , sender , receiver .....)
The sender and receiver are both related to the customer id
I joined the table by
$this->db->select('transactions.*', FALSE);
$this->db->select('tbl_receiver.name as receiver_name,tbl_sender.name as sender_name');
$this->db->join('customer as tbl_receiver','tbl_receiver.id=transactions.receiver');
$this->db->join('customer as tbl_sender','tbl_sender.id=transactions.sender');
Now I am able to display a table like (id,receiver_name , sender_name ...) I need a search bar that can search receiver/sender name
$this->db->like('receiver_name','Jackson');
But it said that no such column as receiver_name . How do I let it able to search by receiver name?