Question

I have a PHP string with a like query – something like this:

$select = "select category_id, category_name from categories where category_name like %"'.$category.'"%;

But I am pretty sure this is totally wrong, and I am getting confused in the million quotes 🙂

Whats the right way to put this query together?

Thank you!!

Answer 1

I’m pretty sure it’s just:

$select = "select category_id, category_name from categories
           where category_name like '%$category%'";