Question

I have a table setup the following way

  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `eventid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `invites` text COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)

In that table i have rows which look like this

1, 127, '32215, 55648, 89887, 55555, 66666, 33333'
2, 168, '44444, 33333, 121212, 0540541'

How would i search the contnts of the invites field for a match for a particular number such as if i wanted to search for 33333, it would return both rows, but if i searched for 44444 it would return only the second?

Answer 1

I believe you can use find_in_set(), so something like:

select * from tablename where find_in_set('44444', invites);

This isn’t very good database design though.