Question

I currently have database items with “Skönhet Kroppsvård Massage Spa” as category (in one string).

Currently I use

     WHERE Select6 LIKE '%spa%'

What I want is to select eg. “Spa” and get the fields containing “Spa” and not “Spas”

Answer 1

Look into mySQL fulltext search. It takes some time to get into and has some caveats, but it’s probably the only sane way to fulfill your requirement.

Boolean full-text searches should work for you, for example

SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body)
AGAINST ('+Spa' IN BOOLEAN MODE);