I have two tables: who contains these fields:
gmdc_employee
file_id company_id employee_id employee_name file_description file_date file_name folder_access upload_date confirmation
1 20111253 20080407 Mariel file1 2000-01-01 agent_masterlist.xls documents/20111253/ 2011-05-16 Pending
2 20112301 20864125 Keisha file2 2000-02-01 auto_lapsed.xls documents/20112301/ 2011-05-16 Pending
11 20111253 65513215 Rovy file15 2008-01-01 attendancesheet.xls documents/20111253/ 2011-06-01 Pending
gmdc_user
company_id company_name employee_id employee_name username password_clear password_hash login_number last_login
25014462 NCST 20132248 Danica ncst ncst c7b080d11d6766a27c02591f74b2ea4d 3 2011-05-23 11:25:03
20112301 EAC 20113318 Emilio eac each 933dd8674c563081260867dfa95b5e74 4 2011-05-23 11:52:58
20111253 DLSU 20080040 John dlsu dasma 3c26c824914144d0addf0ceb850ed78a 15 2011-06-01 10:45:32
This is the query I used when I first need to get items in my gmdc_employee tables: the '%$search%' is my name for my search button and '$listname%' is my name for my panel tabs(A-Z list):
select *
from gmdc_employee
where employee_name like '%$search%'
AND employee_name like '$listname%'
The problem is in my search button. Before, my search button will only search the employee_name (my code above is the one i used which is working). But the conditions changed unfortunately :( I was asked that aside from searching the employee_name(found in gmdc_employee table) the user may also search for employee_id (which is found in the gmdc_employee) and company_name (which is found in the gmdc_user), but I don't know how to do that :( I haven't learnt from school yet about the joining of two tables, although I learned a way to do that and tried it. Unfortunately it produced wrong results. So may I give an example?
If the user searched for the company name DLSU, the output should look like this:
employee_id employee_name title file_date status confirmation
20080407 Mariel file1 2000-01-01 Pending delete //delete is a link
65513215 Rovy file15 2008-01-01 Pending delete
as to what you see,it searches and echoes files under the company name "DLSU" I hope someone could help me here :( I already tried everything but nothing works the way it was suppose to.
This is what I tried to used that produces wrong outputs. :( it echoed all data needed where and did not look in the condition that only the searched company_name info should output:
select
a.employee_id,
a.employee_name,
a.file_description,
a.file_date,
a.confirmation
from
gmdc_employee AS a
JOIN gmdc_user AS b
WHERE
a.employee_name like'%'
AND a.employee_id like '%'
AND b.company_name like 'DLSU'
