Total newbie questions about a simple PHP search using addFindCriterion to match checkbox value.

 

I have 3 checkboxes in a field called "myChoices_field" containing the following choices - where "airport" is selected.

 

[ ] air

[x] airport

[ ] air vent

 

So that means that "myChoices_fld" contains only the value "airport".

 

If I do a search via PHP looking for a record that matches only the choice "air" - this is what I would use:

 

$findCommand->addFindCriterion('myChoices_field', "air");

 

I should expect it NOT to match anything since "air" does not equal to "airport". However - I'm getting back the record that matches "airport". Clearly - it's just doing a substring match.

 

How can I search a checked value that actually just searches the whole checked value - not do a substring search? I'm I completely missing where to find this in the documentation?

 

Pointing me to the documentation would help greatly. Thanks!

All finds by default use the same search methodology as FileMaker does - a 'begins with' search... So from the above, Airport, Airplane, Airgel will all match...

 

If you use an exact match search ( ==Air ) then you will get no results.

 

However, you will also get no results for ==Airport *if* anything else is checked in the value list...