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Nov 03.2011

I have a basic search page that queries the database and displays results based on the search term. I have an “approved” field that is set to 0 by default. When the user searches, I would like to exclude rows that have the “approved” field set to 0.

Here’s what I have now:

[code=php]$q =”SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE name LIKE ‘%” . $searchterm . “%'”; [/code]

Still new to PHP/MySQL, so please bear with me if this is childs play stuff ?

Thanks in advance!

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@bruisrauthorNov 03.2011 — I searched a bit differently and found the answer:
[code=php]$q ="SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE name LIKE '%" . $searchterm . "%' AND approved != '0'"; [/code]

This kept the unapproved rows out of the search results. Hope this helps anyone else who comes across it.
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