Question

I have a column in my MySQL table. The column name is “attached_products”, now, for example I have some records there and the attached_products have a value “1,16,164,1645”, how do I select all records with “16”?

I tried the where clause, it went something like:

select * from websites where attached_products like '%16%'

but it also select the records with 164 and 21645.

Thanks for any help! 🙂

Answer 1

since you are using a bad design for your database you could use, like you said:

SELECT * FROM `websites` WHERE (`attached_products` LIKE '%,16,%' OR `attached_products` LIKE '16,%' OR `attached_products` LIKE '%,16' OR `attached_products`='16');

but you should consider redesigning your database for easier selects. You can add another table with only those attached products like:

table 1
id | etc ... | etc .... |

attached_products
id | id_product | product

where id_product is from table 1 and product is the product id