Question

$db_item =  $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM wp_wowhead_items WHERE name LIKE %s", "%". "Hello" . "%") );

This above one works… But the below one doesn’t work!

$text = "Hello";
$db_item =  $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * FROM wp_wowhead_items WHERE name LIKE %s", "%". $text . "%") );

Where am I missing the syntax? I tried almost every combination with quotes, slashes, escapes…

Answer 1

Try this:

$db_item =  $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(
    "SELECT * FROM wp_wowhead_items WHERE name LIKE %s", '%$text%'"
));