Hello:

I have a online dating community and I want to make a search script that lets a member locates someone by different fields (age,sex,gender,country,name). Something like aol member directory feature. Can anyone give me a example on how to do this?

I tried doing 'if' commands to cover all the possible combinations the user wants to search for, but the coding is way to long and to many possible cominations! ex.

if a user wants to search for:
age,sex,name
if ($age ne "" && $sex ne "" && $name ne "") {
  if ($age eq "agex" && $sex eq "sexx" && $name eq "namex") {
    &printresults($member);
  }
}

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age,country,name
age,gender,country,sex
etc.etc.


Is there anyway to make the coding easier and more effiecient?

Thanks,
Anthony

In reply to Search Categories - Most efficient way by perleager

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