Question

I am attempting to create a search function for user profiles on my site.

$search= $_POST['search'];
$res=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".TBL_USERS." WHERE username LIKE '$search%'");

This is the code I use. This will only work if you search something that matches the start of the result. Is there any way I can return values that have what i type as part of the username regardingless of upper or lower cases?

Thankyou

Answer 1

“%” is the wildcard, so if you also place it in front of your search string (like %$search%) it will match $search anywhere in username.

Use “LOWER” in SQL to make your username lowercase and “strtolower” in PHP to do the same, then execute the query to get case-insensitive results.

And as David Dorward said: read bobby-tables.com before you do anything else!!!