Question

I am trying to do a query on my MySQL database. I want it to be case insensitive. If “RED” exists in the database and I search for “red”, I want the result to show.

Unfortunately, this query is being case-senstivie and I dont know why:

$color = "red";
$size = "large";

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM items WHERE color = '$color' OR size = '$size'");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {

    if ($color == $row['color']) {
        echo "The color exists in the database";
    }
    if ($size == $row['size']) {
        echo "The size exists in the database";
    }

}

Using this example, “RED” exists in the database, but it’s not being found.

What’s wrong with the query?

Answer 1

Because the collation of you column is case sensitive