Question

Following on from my last question:

I am now using the statement:

    if (isset($_GET['url'])) {
        $url = $_GET['url'];
    }


      SELECT name, url FROM table WHERE species LIKE '%$url%'

species could have content likes "Brown & Rainbow Trout, Pike"

however my url for say Brown Trout is : /fishing/browntrout/

This basically prevents the statement above from returning any results.

Clearly it works fine for say : /fishing/pike/ just not for the fish that have 2 names.

Whats the best way to resolve this?

Answer 1

Try making the url /fishing/brown_trout/ instead. Then try something like this:

if (isset($_GET['url'])) { // "brown_trout"
    $url = str_replace('_', '%', $_GET['url']); // "brown%trout"
}

SELECT name, url FROM table WHERE species LIKE '%$url%'

This will make the query:

SELECT name, url FROM table WHERE species LIKE '%brown%trout%'

Which should work.