Question

I’m searching in two tables for a string.

$sql="SELECT download.title FROM download
      WHERE download.title LIKE '%$search%' 
      UNION 
      SELECT news.title FROM news
      WHERE news.title LIKE '%$search%' OR news.text LIKE '%$search%' ";  

How can I find out what table the records I have found are from?

Answer 1

Why not just add a discriminator column in your result-set? That enables you to query once, and get the results by source.

SELECT 'DOWNLOAD' AS SOURCE, download.title FROM download WHERE download.title LIKE '%$search%' 
UNION ALL
SELECT 'NEWS', news.title FROM news WHERE news.title LIKE '%$search%' OR news.text LIKE '%$search%';