http://newsourcemedia.com/blog Focused on Interactive Design, Development and Marketing Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:30:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/php-search-using-where-and-like-or-query-functions/ http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/php-search-using-where-and-like-or-query-functions/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:22:11 +0000 admin http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/2004/07/16/php-search-using-where-and-like-or-query-functions/ Continue reading →]]> Search using WHERE, AND, LIKE, OR Query Functions

1. Looking for an exact match in field1: SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = '$name'
2. Looking if the field1 contains the search word anywhere using LIKE and both '%%' SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '%$word%'
3. Looking if the field1 contains the value that begins with our word using LIKE and the last ' %' SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '$word%'
4. Looking if the field1 contains the value that ends with our word using LIKE and the first '% ' SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '%$word'
5. Looking if our search word appears in both fields using AND SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '%$word%' AND field2 LIKE '%$word%'
6. Looking if our search word appears in any of the two fields using OR SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '%$word%' OR field2 LIKE '%$word%'
7. Looking if our word is in field1 OR in field2 AND field3 using Parentheses SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE '%$word%' OR (field2 LIKE '%$word%' AND field2 LIK

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