Question

i need to submit a query to search posts with a specific tag. the cell in the database is written this way : “funny tech good” so every word describe a tag. so i have writed this code in order to get a posts with the “funny” tag.

'SELECT * FROM `posts` WHERE `post_tag` = "funny" ORDER BY `post_id` DESC LIMIT 50'

unfortunately , it gives me no result. what is the problem in here?

Answer 1

Use the LIKE keyword or store your tags in a 1-tag-per-entry fashion.

 SELECT * FROM `posts` WHERE `post_tag` LIKE "%funny%" ORDER BY `post_id` DESC LIMIT 50

This will however find tags, that have other tags included, so a search for “java” will also find “javascript”,