Question

For my site, I’ve created a search page where users can search for the phone model name or the manufacturers name — but not both. Users can type “apple” and get a list of all Apple’s phones, or they can type “3g” and get a list of all the phones with “3g” in their name.

But, if a user types, “apple iphone” or “htc evo”, they get zero results because the manufacturer name and the phone name are in two different columns.

This is my search statement:

$sql = "SELECT 
            o.id,
            o.label,
            o.manufacture_id,
            o.buyback_price,
            o.image_path,
            u.id,
            u.label
            FROM phone_models as o 
            LEFT JOIN manufactures as u ON o.manufacture_id = u.id
            WHERE o.label like \"%$searchTerm%\" OR u.label like \"%$searchTerm%\"
            order by o.label";

Is there a way to create a new column that has both data from u.label AND o.label?

Thanks!

Answer 1

try:

$sql = "SELECT 
            o.id,
            o.label,
            o.manufacture_id,
            o.buyback_price,
            o.image_path,
            u.id,
            u.label
            FROM phone_models as o 
            LEFT JOIN manufactures as u ON o.manufacture_id = u.id
            WHERE CONCAT(u.label,' ',o.label) like \"%$searchTerm%\"
            order by o.label";

But replace spaces in your $searchTerm with %:

$searchTerm = str_replace(' ','%',$searchTerm);