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    <p>I have the following code that doesn't work. It doesn't work because it will do a query</p> <p><strong>WHERE column = ' * '</strong>, instead of <strong>WHERE column = *</strong></p> <p>I tried to think of a way to get it so it will do WHERE variable = 'var' if a variable is posted in the form and WHERE column = * if not posted, but I can't think of a way, and everything I tried is hacky or not working.</p> <pre><code> if(isset($_POST['variable'])){ $variable=$_POST['variable']; } else{$variable='*';} $sql="SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = '$variable'"; </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT, Here is the actual code:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;form method='post' action='policy.php?go'&gt; &lt;input type='radio' name='gen' value='M'&gt;Male &lt;input type='radio' name='gen' value='F'&gt;Female &lt;select name='state'&gt; &lt;option value='AK'&gt;AK&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value='WY'&gt;WY&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type='radio' name='logic' value='&gt;'&gt;Older Than &lt;input type='radio' name='logic' value='&lt;'&gt;Younger Than &lt;select name='age'&gt; &lt;option value='5'&gt;5&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value='11'&gt;11&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value='17'&gt;17&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value='65'&gt;65&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type='submit' name='submit' value='Search'&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;?php if(isset($_GET['go']) &amp;&amp; isset($_POST['submit'])){ if(isset($_POST['state'])){ $state="'".mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['state'] )."'"; } else{ $state='*';} if(isset($_POST['age'])){ $age=$_POST['age']; //append to query string } if(isset($_POST['logic'])){ $log=$_POST['logic']; //append to query string } else{$log='';} if(isset($_POST['gen'])){ $gen="'".mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['gen'] )."'"; } else {$gen='*';} echo "&lt;table id='hor-minimalist-b' summary='Employee Pay Sheet' class='tablesorter'&gt; &lt;caption&gt;Age: ".$log." ".$age." Gender: ".$gen." &lt;/caption&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th scope='col'&gt;State&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th scope='col'&gt;Number&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;"; // (WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING?) $sql = "SELECT SUM(num) AS sum, state,gen,age FROM `policy-ssi` WHERE age $log $age AND gen = $gen GROUP BY state ORDER BY sum DESC"; $result = mysql_query($sql); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { </code></pre>
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