Trying to combine multiple queries into one query - php

Question

*Note, if you can think of a more constructive title, please do edit.
I have a table that looks like this:
id | forGame | otherType | otherName | otherDesc
9 |+Stellar+Dawn |Character |Car |Car
10 |+Stellar+Dawn |Item |Brugson Burson |a guy
11 |+Stellar+Dawn |Item |Space Pie |A pie from space
Now, my problem is that I'm trying to seperate multiple queries into one:
$gameOther_typeItem = $database->queryDB("SELECT * FROM `mainSite_others` WHERE otherType='Item' AND forGame='$gameName'");
$gameOther_typeEntity = $database->queryDB("SELECT * FROM `mainSite_others` WHERE otherType='Entity' AND forGame='$gameName'");
$gameOther_typeCharacter = $database->queryDB("SELECT * FROM `mainSite_others` WHERE otherType='Character' AND forGame='$gameName'");
(Don't worry about the $database->... part, that's my class.)
How might I combine these into one?
Thank you.

Answer 1

You could use "`OR'".
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE column1 = value1 AND column3 = value3 OR column2 = value2 AND column3 = value3
Or, you could use multiple query to execute multiple queries at the same time?
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.multi-query.php
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT CURRENT_USER();";
$query .= "SELECT Name FROM City ORDER BY ID LIMIT 20, 5";
/* execute multi query */
if ($mysqli->multi_query($query)) {
do {
/* store first result set */
if ($result = $mysqli->store_result()) {
while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
printf("%s\n", $row[0]);
}
$result->free();
}
/* print divider */
if ($mysqli->more_results()) {
printf("-----------------\n");
}
} while ($mysqli->next_result());
}
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Answer 2

SELECT * FROM mainSite_others WHERE (otherType='Item' OR otherType =
'Entity' OR otherType = 'Character') AND forGame='$gameName';