Conditions help....

Hi there!

One question, how can I filter something coming from a database in PHP using a conditional, for example, I have a table with posted jobs, those jobs belongs to departments, for example

Brokerage - System
Brokerage - Management
Brokerage - Services
Brokerages - Payroll
Carrier - Real Estate
Carrier - Documents
Carrier - Programming
etc.

If you see, the departments are just 2 Brokerage and Carrier but in the database they are called like I described you Brokerage - Something and Carrier - Something.

I want to have 2 HTML tables, the table in the left with only posting the Brokerage Positions and the one in the right with the Carrier Positions, I used this on the left one:

<?php
if (@$row_rsBJ['Job_Department'] != "Brokerage") {
?>

<?php do { ?>
<table>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rsBJ = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsBJ)); ?>
<?php }


but didn't work, I need to filter with something like "Send me only departments that start with brokerage" or something like that, but my programming expertise is minimal, any idea? or suggestion?

Thanks so much in advance!

Arturo

assuming the name of the table is "jobs" and the name of the column is "departments"


you could use the following SQL for Brokerage:
SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE departments LIKE 'Brokerage%'

and this for Carrier:
SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE departments LIKE 'Carrier%'

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  assuming the name of the table is "jobs" and the name of the column is "departments"


you could use the following SQL for Brokerage:
SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE departments LIKE 'Brokerage%'

and this for Carrier:
SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE departments LIKE 'Carrier%'  

Hi Jason, thanks so much!! you're right, that should do the trick, the thing is, my query is a little bit complex, for example, the one that should call the brokerage ones is:


SELECT CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_Logo, CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_COName, Jobs.Job_Date, Jobs.Job_Position, Jobs.Job_Salary, Jobs.Job_Department, Jobs.Job_Division, Jobs.Job_City, Jobs.Job_State, Jobs.Job_Contact, Jobs.Job_Email, Jobs.Job_Summary
FROM (Jobs
LEFT JOIN CompanyInfo ON CompanyInfo.ID_User=Jobs.ID_User)
ORDER BY Jobs.Job_Date DESC

So now not sure where t place what you explained.

Thanks Jason!

A.-

SELECT CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_Logo, CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_COName, Jobs.Job_Date, Jobs.Job_Position, Jobs.Job_Salary, Jobs.Job_Department, Jobs.Job_Division, Jobs.Job_City, Jobs.Job_State, Jobs.Job_Contact, Jobs.Job_Email, Jobs.Job_Summary
FROM (Jobs
LEFT JOIN CompanyInfo ON CompanyInfo.ID_User=Jobs.ID_User)
WHERE departments LIKE 'Brokerage%'
ORDER BY Jobs.Job_Date DESC

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  SELECT CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_Logo, CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_COName, Jobs.Job_Date, Jobs.Job_Position, Jobs.Job_Salary, Jobs.Job_Department, Jobs.Job_Division, Jobs.Job_City, Jobs.Job_State, Jobs.Job_Contact, Jobs.Job_Email, Jobs.Job_Summary
FROM (Jobs
LEFT JOIN CompanyInfo ON CompanyInfo.ID_User=Jobs.ID_User)
WHERE departments LIKE 'Brokerage%'
ORDER BY Jobs.Job_Date DESC  

Hi Jason thanks a lot, now it works, thanks so much!

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  SELECT CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_Logo, CompanyInfo.CompanyInfo_COName, Jobs.Job_Date, Jobs.Job_Position, Jobs.Job_Salary, Jobs.Job_Department, Jobs.Job_Division, Jobs.Job_City, Jobs.Job_State, Jobs.Job_Contact, Jobs.Job_Email, Jobs.Job_Summary
FROM (Jobs
LEFT JOIN CompanyInfo ON CompanyInfo.ID_User=Jobs.ID_User)
WHERE departments LIKE 'Brokerage%'
ORDER BY Jobs.Job_Date DESC  

Hi Jason, again, thanks for all the help, I have one question, see, I need now to filter the departments and only print jobs under brokerage and certain departments, for example,

Show only brokerage jobs with Brokerage - System
or
Show only brokerage jobs with Brokerage - Administration

etc, how should I construct the query to have jobs listed only within the requested department? I plan to have 2 pages, one with the department categories where you can click on any and that should be sent as URL parameter like:

list-brokerage-by-category.php?<?php echo $row_rsShowCats['Job_Department']; ?>=Department Here

but the other page, the one that receives that parameter is where I need to construct that query.

Any idea will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

A.-

you have the idea of the link backwards

list-brokerage-by-category.php?Department=<?php echo $row_rsShowCats['Job_Department']; ?>

this creates a querystring variable named Department that is given the value of the department name from the recordset.

for the recordset, set the where clause to:
WHERE departments = paramDepartment

then create a new variables as:
name: paramDepartment
Type: Text
Default Value: -1
Run Time Value: $_GET['Department']

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  you have the idea of the link backwards

list-brokerage-by-category.php?Department=<?php echo $row_rsShowCats['Job_Department']; ?>

this creates a querystring variable named Department that is given the value of the department name from the recordset.

for the recordset, set the where clause to:
WHERE departments = paramDepartment

then create a new variables as:
name: paramDepartment
Type: Text
Default Value: -1
Run Time Value: $_GET['Department']  

As usual, thanks so much Jason!

you're welcome.