"OR" in queries?

[Lucky13]

Hello...I want something like this:

When I go to index.php?id=x or index.php?name=x, if gets the same info for the record, but if I just go to index.php, it does something else. This is what I have:

if ($id OR $name) {
if ($id) {
blah blah FROM database WHILE id=$id
} elseif {
blah blah FROM database WHILE name=$name
}
(this is the individual record)
echo " . $rows[name] . ";
} else {
(this is a list of all of the records)
blah blah
}

Anyone have any ideas? Thank you very much.

~Lucky13

[Cheap Bastard]

wouldn't you just put the HTML page you want displayed with just index.php between the braces of the last else { } statement?

[Lucky13]

That's what I would have through, but it said that the procedure of calling the last query (under "if ($name) {") wasn't supported on my server...

[gyrbo]

useing || I think

[Lucky13]

where?

FROM db WHERE id=$id || name=$name ????

Thanks.
~Lucky13

[Cheap Bastard]

|| is just another way of saying OR
why are you using an elseif statement without giving it anything
either you give it another condition

elseif($name) {
yadayada
}

or you can just make it else

else {
yadayada
}

Also, note if you take the first option you can make it bullet proof by adding another else statement below it. I don't see how anything could get through after your OR statement, but if you're feeling like extra safety take option one. If you're feeling like shorter scripts take option two...

[Lucky13]

OK...it's not working. This is what I have:


if ($id || $name) {
if ($id) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM kod WHERE id=$id",$db);
$myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result);
} elseif ($name) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM kod WHERE name=$name",$db);
$myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result);
} else {
echo "Unable to comply";
}
yada
} else {
yade


It works fine if I go to Roster.php?id='x', but when I go to Roster.php?name='y' it says that it has a problem with the line that says
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM kod WHERE name=$name",$db);

I'm stuck. Can anyone help?

Thanks
Lucky

[gyrbo]

What is the exact error?
Maybe the colum doesn't exist, or is empty

[Lucky13]

No...the column "name" is there, and it's full. It says

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/niaad/niaad-www/kod/roster.php on line 34

Line 34 is when it call the query with the name=$name stuff.

[lucifer]

2 things

"SELECT * FROM kod WHERE name='$name'",

as it's a text string



put

if ($result=mysql_query(.....)){ do stuff }
else {your error msg}

as returns false if a db error occurs so you can catch errors

[Lucky13]

HORRAY!

Lucifer is smart! You were right about the whole thing with the text string. I'll have to remember that :)

Thanks a lot!
~Lucky13