So I have two rows in my Database - user_one and user_two, these rows are occupied by User ID's as numbers for a messaging system, I have also included a support ticket system within the same message feature but am having a few issues with this code snippet...
$sqlc="SELECT * FROM ap_conversations WHERE user_one = '$user_id' AND user_two != '999' OR user_two = '$user_id' AND user_one != '999' OR user_one = '$user_id' AND user_two != '999d' OR user_two = '$user_id' AND user_one != '999d'";
As you'll notice, the support tickets ID is 999, and when it was kept to just checking that neither ID's were 999 this code worked perfectly. Although I also need it to check that neither user_one or user_two has ID's of 999 or 999d. This current code returns 1, when I know for a fact it should return 0 so I know something is defiantly going wrong and I think I may have it set up incorrectly. I have attempted to set it up like this in many different formats:
$sqlc="SELECT * FROM ap_conversations WHERE user_one = '$user_id' AND (user_two != '999' OR user_two != '999d') OR user_two = '$user_id' AND (user_one != '999' OR user_one != '999d')";
But still get the same results? Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong here or how I can make this code perform better?
(user_one = '$user_id' AND user_two != '999')
OR (user_one = '$user_id' AND user_two != '999d')
...is a problem, it simplifies to user_one = '$user_id', the AND conditions become irrelevant.
If you don't believe me, try a row where user_one = user_id and user_two = '999'.. It fails the first bracketed condition, but passes the second and is returned.
I assume you want:
SELECT * FROM ap_conversations
WHERE (user_one = :user_id AND user_two NOT IN ('999','999d'))
OR (user_two = :user_id AND user_one NOT IN ('999','999d'));
N.B. Passing in '999' or '999d' as the $user_id will still return the support tickets. I quite like this functionality but if this is not desired you could use:
SELECT * FROM ap_conversations
WHERE (user_one = :user_id OR user_two = :user_id)
AND user_one NOT IN ('999','999d')
AND user_two NOT IN ('999','999d');