Re: mySQL WHERE/LIKE

The only way I know how to do it is by doing boolean OR's... It's not as compact and efficient as you'd like, but it works. SELECT * FROM gallery LEFT JOIN designers ON (designers.designersID=gallery.designersID) WHERE (gallery.column1 LIKE '%$search_string%' OR gallery.column2 LIKE '%$search_string%') ORDER BY gallery.galleryID"; Wilbert Enserink wrote:

Hi all, I know this is rather OT, but I searched the mySQL manual all over...couldn't find it.

I want to perform a search in a table. More then 1 columns should be searched. namely column1 and column2 and so on.

Anybody knows what goes wrong here? --(in the WHERE clause). It seems that mySQL doesn't like to perform a search in more then 1 column.:-(

$query="SELECT * FROM gallery LEFT JOIN designers ON (designers.designersID=gallery.designersID) WHERE (gallery.column1, gallery.column2) LIKE '%$search_string%' ORDER BY gallery.galleryID";

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