MySQL table with similar column info - HELP!!!
- by George Garman
I have a DB with a table that is named "victim". The form that dumps the info into the table has room for two victims and therefore there is vic1_fname, vic1_lname, vic2_fname, vic2_lname, etc.. (business name, person first, person last, address, city, state, zip) a "1" and "2" of each. Now I want to search the DB and locate listed victims.
This is what I have so far:
$result = mysql_query(
"SELECT victim.*
FROM victim
WHERE vic1_business_name OR vic2_business_name LIKE '%$search_vic_business_name%'
AND vic1_fname OR vic2_fname LIKE '%$search_vic_fname%'
AND vic1_lname OR vic2_lname LIKE '%$search_vic_lname%'
AND vic1_address OR vic2_address LIKE '%$search_vic_address%'
AND vic1_city OR vic2_city LIKE '%$search_vic_city%'
AND vic1_state OR vic2_state LIKE '%$search_vic_state%'
AND vic1_dob OR vic2_dob LIKE '%$search_vic_dob%'
");
<table width="960" style="border: groove;" border=".5">
<tr><th colspan=10>You search results are listed below:</th></tr>
<tr>
<th>Case Number</th>
<th>Business Name</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>DOB / Age</th>
<th>Address</th>
<th>City</th>
<th>State</th>
</tr>
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{ ?>
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_business_name']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_fname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_lname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_dob']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_adress']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_city']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic_state']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</table>
The info did not display in the table until I changed the table to this:
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_business_name']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_fname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_lname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_dob']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_adress']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_city']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic1_state']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_business_name']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_fname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_lname']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_dob']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_adress']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_city']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><?php print $row['vic2_state']; ?></td>
</tr>
Now it displays both rows, even if its empty. It doesn't matter if the victim was listed originally as vic1 or vic2, i just want to know if they are a victim.
I hope this makes sense. I can't get it to display the way I want, line-by-line, irregardless of whether you are vic1 or vic2.
