better to use the sql UPPER/LOWER and keep your variable values the same
Except that they should be escaping the variable to make it db-safe so that will change it ... so if you're going to do that, might as well do this:
$safe_stringinput = xxxx_escape_string(strtoupper($stringinput);
One trick is to force the case in your comparison:
$ucstringinput = strtoupper($stringinput);
$qry = "select * from sometable where upper(address) like '%$ucstringinput%'"
Didn't think LIKE was case sensitive, but regardless... forcing upper or lowercase in your comparison doesn't affect output but will make your case sensitivity issue moot.
HTH
-TG
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Hi there everyone,
I have a little problem, I have a search where people can search the address
of a property BUT the search is case sensitive, I don~t WANT it to be. I~m
using MySQL and PHP and I generally use something like WHERE address LIKE
~%$stringinput%~ which works with the numbers ONLY, but when I add the
address if I don~t put a capital infront of each part of the address it
won~t show up. Any ideas how I can make it case INSENSITIVE? (Think that~s
the correct phrase).
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks everyone
Regards
Chris Payne
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