Question

I’m looking for something like this:

Let’s say we have a string..

$chk="pie";

And we want to find something in the database with the string $chk in it..

Say the database looks like this:

username realname
123pieo  Bob
ilikepie Carl
wat      Tom

Can I select the ones that contain $chk in them some how?

Answer 1

This will select any rows that contain “pie” in the username.

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE username LIKE "%pie%"