Question

Hello i want improve my search page

i am using this query to search in posts by post title or post content

SELECT * FROM posts 
WHERE post_title rlike $this->secure($_GET['p_title']) 
  OR post_content rlike $this->secure($_GET['p_title']);

i want sort posts

i want to print posts that i got by post_title first

and then print the posts that i got by post_content

should i use two querys to sort them? and if so. How to merge two mysql querys?

Answer 1

You can merge the results of two queries using the UNION operator (Docu link) like the following:

( SELECT 0 AS toBeOrdered, * FROM posts 
  WHERE post_title rlike $this->secure($_GET['p_title'])  )
UNION
( SELECT 1 AS toBeOrdered, * FROM posts 
  WHERE post_content rlike $this->secure($_GET['p_title']) )
ORDER BY toBeOrdered ASC

I inserted a column toBeOrdered to reflect your desired sorting.