Question

I have this form which i use it to search specific records from the database.

This is the query:

$sql = "select * from `hostess` where first_name_en like '%$term' or family_name_en like '%$term%' order by `family_name_en` asc";

The issue is that if i search i.e ele there come all the names which contain ele, such as elena, etc etc, but if i write elena nothing comes up.

How come?

Answer 1

Is there a reason why you didn’t use the % at the end of the first_name_en value ?

$sql = "select * from `hostess` where first_name_en like '%$term%' or family_name_en like '%$term%' order by `family_name_en` asc"; 

Edit : For the uppercase-lowercase problem :

$term = strtolower($term);
$sql = "select * from `hostess` where lower(first_name_en) like '%$term%' or lower(family_name_en) like '%$term%' order by `family_name_en` asc";