Multi input & multi column for each loop PHP

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

Currently taking all get request through foreach function. Looking if column called season contains them. Next step is adding 1 more column to check if any get request is LIKE any of the next column values. The second column has to be an AND and not and OR, which means if the first column season contains any of the get requests AND the second column contains any of the GET requests.

Currently:

$array_name = array();
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
    $array_name[] = "'%" . escape_string($value) . "%'";
};

$string = implode(' OR season LIKE ', $array_name);

$tank = "SELECT * FROM shrubs2 WHERE season LIKE {$string}";
echo $tank;          

First edit:

      function searchByColumn($values, $columnName) {
      $string = implode(" OR $columnName LIKE ", $values);
      return "SELECT * FROM shrubs2 WHERE $columnName LIKE $string";
  }

  $array_name = array();
  foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
      $array_name[] = "'%".escape_string($value)."%'";
  }

  $colNames = array("season", "日照"); // can add here more column names
  foreach($colNames as $colName) {
      $str = searchByColumn($array_name, $colName);
  }

  echo $str;


 ///// creating the query with the variable $str

manpreet 3 years ago

You can define function to search for each column:

function searchByColumn($values, $columnName) {
    $string = implode(" OR $columnName LIKE ", $values);
    return "SELECT * FROM shrubs2 WHERE $columnName LIKE $string";
} 

Then use it as:

$array_name = array();
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
    $array_name[] = "'%".escape_string($value)."%'";
}

$colNames = array("season"); // can add here more column names
foreach($colNames as $colName) {
    $str = searchByColumn($array_name, $colName);
    echo $str; // or run it
}