Need Help With Active Record For Search Function

[eluser]Joshua Logsdon[/eluser]
Yeah, like noctrum said, seeing the SQL being built may be easier to pinpoint what's going on...

You may be unexpectedly finding "OR name_last LIKE ''" or something that is making the search pull the entire database as you're saying. Also it might be a little "OR" crazy and somehow your filters aren't working as expected... something that doesn't pop out in the code but would in the SQL.