Question

I have a field in my database called categories which holds the categories of a clothing store topics (New Arrival, Top Sellers, Men, Women, Kids etc)

I have one record that has: New Arrival, Men
I have a second record that has: New Arrival, Women

How could I query the database to select just women or just men?

I’ve tired this: SELECT * FROM products WHERE categories RLIKE [[:<:]]Men[[:>:]]'

This does work for men but it doesn’t work for women.

Answer 1

Well if you are actually storing the words “Men” or “Women”, your database is set up incorrectly

You should be using a linked table let us say categories to link products to categories.

Then you can do something like:

SELECT * FROM products p
JOIN categoriesToProducts ctp ON ctp.productId = p.productId
JOIN categories c ON c.categoryId = ctp.categoryId
WHERE c.categoryName = "Men";