MySQL Query with multiple AND statements seems to be ignoring one

Question

I\'m trying to run a query on a MySQL database, but I found that it seems to be ignoring the \'status\' item.

SELECT * FROM  `posts`  
WHERE
      `tags` LIK         


        

Answer 1

have you tried something like:

SELECT * FROM  `posts`  
WHERE
     ( `tags` LIKE '%gda%' 
   OR `tags` LIKE '%contests%' 
   OR `tags` LIKE '%merch%')
  AND `newsID` != '2134' 
  AND `status` > '1' 
ORDER BY  `postDate` DESC  LIMIT 5