Question

I want to do the following:

$searchParams is an array, which contains some strings (dynamicly generated).

Now the Statement would be something like this:

SELECT manufacturer FROM shop_articles WHERE manufacturer LIKE '".$searchParams."%'

But what I want is the result with the most matches. Can I code that in one statement?
So it would be something like

ORDER BY MATCHES DESC

How do I do that?

Answer 1

For each param in your searchParam array you have to make a like clause

    SELECT Manufacturer, COUNT(*) AS Matches FROM
    FROM shop_articles WHERE (
manufacturer LIKE '".$searchParams[0]."%' OR
manufacturer LIKE '".$searchParams[1]."%' OR 
...
manufacturer LIKE '".$searchParams[n]."%' OR )
    GROUP BY Manufacturer
    ORDER BY Matches