How to select two or more element in SQL table?

Please note I’m a beginner in SQL and PHP and I search =every where but didn’t found anything useful
I want to select two data from the following table.

my code

else if($_SESSION['name']=='Joe')

I tried use this syntax but didn’t work ==’Joe’, ‘John’, ==(‘Joe’, ‘John’)
Please help me

>Solution :

select name from table where name in ('joe','john')