You previously mentioned a Speedtrap has 1:N Comments. Given that, your question does not provide enough information about what you want.

  1. Do you want to display all the Speedtraps, and list only Comments that match the query;
  2. do you want to display only the Speedtraps with comments that match the query, but list all the Comments; or
  3. do you want to display only the Speedtraps with comments that match the query, and only the Comments that match the query?

btw, here's a trick to simply your if:

$query = 'WHERE 1=1';
$query .= " AND state='$state'"     if ($state ne 'all');
$query .= " AND approved='$status'" if ($status ne 'all');

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Also, as I mentioned before, escape your arguments!! Unless you want someone to inject a query that deletes or modifies your database... Use replaceable parameters (as shown previously) or use quote(), as shown here:

my $q_state  = $dbh->quote($state);
my $q_status = $dbh->quote($status);

$query = 'WHERE 1=1';
$query .= " AND state=$q_state"     if ($state ne 'all');
$query .= " AND approved=$q_status" if ($status ne 'all');

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In reply to Re: Double Database Search and Sort by ikegami
in thread Double Database Search and Sort by awohld

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