Question

I have a table on my database that lists different sections to show. We only want to show the sections if the user ID is inside a column of the database called ‘userAccess’ which will have a comma seperated list of the users who can see it.

Example row

id    section   userAccess
1     editNews  1,13,15

So how can I query that out and say something like

SELECT `section` WHERE '$userID' is in `userAccess`

I tried LIKE %, but obviously that will return all 3 users if I do LIKE %1%.

Answer 1

SELECT `section` WHERE FIND_IN_SET('$userID', `userAccess`) != 0