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I am trying to create a dynamic WHERE clause where depending on which options are chosen from the drop down menus, it will compile the correct WHERE clause. But I do not think I am doing it correctly.
First of all there should be a default WHERE clause, no matter which option is selected from the drop down menus there should be a WHERE clause checking for selected SessionId
so this should be SessionId = ?
Then depending on the options chosen from the drop down menus it will compile the other fields in the WHERE clause. There are two drop down menus which are for Students
and Questions
. The possible outcomes are:
Student selected != 'All'
: Add StudentId
= ? in WHERE clause
Student selected == 'All'
: Remove StudentId
= ? from WHERE clause
Question selected != 'All'
: Add QuestionId
= ? in WHERE clause
Question selected == 'All'
: Remove QuestionId
= ? from WHERE clause
My question is that how can I set this up?
Below is what I have currently:
if(isset($_POST['answerSubmit'])) // we have subbmited the third form
{
$selectedstudentanswerqry = "
SELECT
StudentAlias, StudentForename, StudentSurname, q.SessionId, QuestionNo, QuestionContent, o.OptionType, q.NoofAnswers, GROUP_CONCAT( DISTINCT Answer
ORDER BY Answer SEPARATOR ',' ) AS Answer, r.ReplyType, QuestionMarks,
GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT StudentAnswer ORDER BY StudentAnswer SEPARATOR ',') AS StudentAnswer, ResponseTime, MouseClick, StudentMark
FROM Student s
INNER JOIN Student_Answer sa ON (s.StudentId = sa.StudentId)
INNER JOIN Student_Response sr ON (sa.StudentId = sr.StudentId)
INNER JOIN Question q ON (sa.QuestionId = q.QuestionId)
INNER JOIN Answer an ON q.QuestionId = an.QuestionId
LEFT JOIN Reply r ON q.ReplyId = r.ReplyId
LEFT JOIN Option_Table o ON q.OptionId = o.OptionId
";
if ($_POST['student'] != 'All'){
$selectedstudentanswerqry .= "
WHERE (SessionId = ? AND StudentId = ?)
";
}
if ($_POST['question'] != 'All'){
$selectedstudentanswerqry .= "
WHERE (SessionId = ? AND QuestionId = ?)
";
}
$selectedstudentanswerqry .= "
GROUP BY sa.StudentId, q.QuestionId
ORDER BY StudentAlias, q.SessionId, QuestionNo
";
global $mysqli;
$selectedstudentanswerstmt=$mysqli->prepare($selectedstudentanswerqry);
if ($_POST['student'] != 'All'){
// You only need to call bind_param once
$selectedstudentanswerstmt->bind_param("ii",$_POST["session"],$_POST["student"]);
}
if ($_POST['question'] != 'All'){
// You only need to call bind_param once
$selectedstudentanswerstmt->bind_param("ii",$_POST["session"],$_POST["question"]);
}
// get result and assign variables (prefix with db)
$selectedstudentanswerstmt->execute();
$selectedstudentanswerstmt->bind_result($detailsStudentAlias,$detailsStudentForename,$detailsStudentSurname,$detailsSessionId,$detailsQuestionNo,
$detailsQuestonContent,$detailsOptionType,$detailsNoofAnswers,$detailsAnswer,$detailsReplyType,$detailsQuestionMarks,$detailsStudentAnswer,$detailsResponseTime,
$detailsMouseClick,$detailsStudentMark);
$selectedstudentanswerstmt->store_result();
$selectedstudentanswernum = $selectedstudentanswerstmt->num_rows();
}
?>