Question

I have a table like this:

Products ( 'id', 'name', 'description', 'location' )

And a search string:

'car 1000 london'

Now what I want to do is:

bring all records where 'car' exists in 'name' or 'description' or 'location'
and
bring all records where '1000' exists in 'name' or 'description' or 'location'
and
bring all records where 'london' exists in 'name' or 'description' or 'location'

How can I search like this..

Thanks

Answer 1

In InnoDB

  SELECT * FROM products p 
  WHERE (p.name LIKE '% car %' 
     OR p.description LIKE '% car %' 
     OR p.location LIKE '% car %')
UNION 
  -- same query but with '% 1000 %'
UNION 
  -- ditto with '% london %'

In MyISAM

  SELECT 
    MATCH (p.name, p.location, p.description) AGAINST('car') as relevance,
    p.* FROM products p
   WHERE MATCH (p.name, p.location, p.description) AGAINST('london')   
   ORDER BY relevance DESC
UNION 
  -- same query but with '1000' <<-- see note below
UNION 
  -- ditto with 'car'           <<-- see note below.

Match against has a minimum length of 5 chars, see:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-restrictions.html