zend framework 1.11.5 is choking on search function - mysql db

ZF 1.11.5 is puking all over this search function. i've tried creating the query several different ways, sent the sql statement开发者_运维问答 to my view, copied and pasted the sql statement into phpMyAdmin and successfully retrieved records using the sql that ZF is choking on. i have been getting a coupld of different errors: 1) an odd SQL error about 'ordinality' (from my Googling ... it seems this is a ZF hang up .. maybe?) and 2) Fatal error: Call to undefined method Application_Model_DbTable_Blah::query() in /blah/blah/blah.php on line blah

public function searchAction($page=1)
{
    $searchForm = new Application_Model_FormIndexSearch();
    $this->view->searchForm = $searchForm;
    $this->view->postValid = '<p>Enter keywords to search the course listings</p>';
    $searchTerm = trim( $this->_request->getPost('keywords') );
    $searchDb = new Application_Model_DbTable_Ceres();
    $selectSql = "SELECT * FROM listings WHERE `s_coursedesc` LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%' || `s_title` LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%'";
    $selectQuery = $searchDb->query($selectSql);
    $searchResults = $selectQuery->fetchAll();
}

here's my model ....

class Application_Model_DbTable_Ceres extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
{
    protected $_name = 'listings';
    function getCourse( $courseId )
    {
        $courseid = (int)$courseId;
        $row = $this->fetchRow('id=?',$courseId);
        if (!$row)
                    throw new Exception('That course id was not found');
        return $row->toArray();
    }
}

never mind the view file ... that never throws an error. on a side note: i'm seriously considering kicking ZF to the curb and using CodeIgniter instead.

looking forward to reading your thoughts. thanks ( in advance ) for your responses

You're trying to all a method called query() on Zend_Db_Table but no such method exists. Since you have built the SQL already you might find it easier to call the query on the DB adapter directly, so:

$selectSql = "SELECT * FROM listings WHERE `s_coursedesc` LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%' || `s_title` LIKE '%".$searchTerm."%'";
$searchResults = $selectQuery->getAdapter()->fetchAll($selectSql);

but note that this will give you arrays of data in the result instead of objects which you might be expecting. You also need to escape $searchTerm here since you are getting that value directly from POST data.

Alternatively, you could form the query programatically, something like:

$searchTerm = '%'.$searchTerm.'%';
$select = $selectQuery->select();
$select->where('s_coursedesc LIKE ?', $searchTerm)
       ->orWhere('s_title LIKE ?', $searchTerm);
$searchResults = $searchQuery->fetchAll($select);