Question

I have this foreach loop, that I use for a search feature:

$keywords=$_GET['keyword']; 
$exploded=explode(' ',trim($keywords));
$mysql_command="SELECT * FROM items WHERE completed='1' AND ";

foreach ($exploded as $key => $value){
    if ($key>0)
        $mysql_command.=' OR ';

    $mysql_command.="title LIKE ? OR description LIKE ?";
        }

I want to use this prepared statement:

$stmt=$cxn->prepare($mysql_command);
$stmt->execute(array("%$value%","%$value%"));

The problem is, I don’t know how many keywords there is going to be. So how can I make a prepared statement with an unknown number of keywords?

Thanks a lot in advance. Regards

Answer 1

Why you don’t create the array after the request like this :

$params=Array();
foreach($exploded as $key => $value){
  $params[]="%$value%";
}
$stmt->execute($params);