Question

I want to update search results as the user types.

I’m using MATCH to compare search terms with rows. MATCH is great because it’s not case sensitive and it treats accented characters as regular characters.

My problem for this implementation is that it only find results if the user typed the full word.

E.G: If the user types `arbol` MATCH finds all similar rows (árbol, Arbol etc)
however when he just typed `árb` MATCH doesn't find any results.

How should I write the WHERE clause so it shows all occurences whether is in a string or substring?

Answer 1

Appending a wildcard (*) to your match string should do what you want.

WHERE MATCH (columnName) AGAINST ("term*");

EDIT: oh, and you’ll need:

IN BOOLEAN MODE

as well to use wildcard matching.