I think you want to remove the single quotes around the field names. SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE (field_1 LIKE '%$keyword%' OR field_2 LIKE '%$keyword%' OR field_3 LIKE '%$keyword%') AND status = 'active';
>>I STFW and RTFM and I still can't figure out why this returns a 1064 >>parse error: >> >>SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE ('field_1' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR >>'field_2' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR 'field_3' LIKE '%$keyword%') AND >>'status' = 'active'; >> >>Anyone? TIA! >> >>- B1ff Lamer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php