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Apologies for the newbie question.
My website has a form.
<form action='' method='get'>
<select id="cSelector" name="cSelector">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="">Show All Items</option>
<option value="Compensation">Compensation</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
My querystring, created on form submission, looks like this:
http://website.com/table_example.php?cSelector=Compensation
My query looks like this:
$stmt = $conn->prepare("
SELECT t1.CategoryID,t1.SubCategoryName, t1.CategoryName, t1.SubCategoryID, t2.ItemText from
(SELECT Category.CategoryID,CategoryName, SubCategoryName, SubCategoryID
FROM Category
JOIN SubCategory
ON Category.CategoryID = SubCategory.CategoryID) t1
RIGHT JOIN
(SELECT SubCategoryID, ItemText FROM Item) t2
ON (t1.SubCategoryID = t2.SubCategoryID)
WHERE 1 ".$searchQuery." AND CategoryName = ".$search2." ORDER BY ".$columnName." ".$columnSortOrder." LIMIT :limit,:offset");
The intended result produces a table queried by CategoryName.
My question. Why does this properly execute?
$search2='Compensation';
And this does not?
$search2 = "'".$_GET['cSelector']."'";
Any help would be very much appreciated. And thank you!
You're submitting this form viaGET
<form action='' method='get'>
Your line though$search2 = "'".$_POST['cSelector']."'"; is using$_POST
It should be$_GET instead:
$search2 = "'" . $_GET['cSelector'] . "'";`
AFTER OP's CHANGES
This
$search2='Compensation';
and
$search2 = "'".$_GET['cSelector']."'";
are not the same. The top is just a string value. The bottom is a string value wrapped in quotes, so it isn'tCompensation it is'Compensation'.
The core of the issue is actually that you're not exactly sure what the query is. If the two strings sent were identical, they would both run, but they're not. Somehow.
The real need is visibility into your query. So something like
$strQuery = "SELECT t1.CategoryID,t1......";
echo "<pre>$strQuery</pre>";
$stmt = $conn->prepare($strQuery)
Now you can see what it's doing. You're operating blind as it is.
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