Question

I’m trying to do MySQL query to extract specific rows without the help of PHP if conditions,

okay,
i want to select a row where the variable is not in a specific row but here’s the thing

$blocked_user = "aaron";

and in MySQL

+----------+-----------------------+
| id       | blocked               |
+----------+-----------------------+
| 1        | aaron,john            |

i want it to skip “aaron” while selecting and process to john

a false example :

SELECT * FROM table WHERE $blocked_user NOT IN blocked

What i was doing is get blocked content and seperate them using php explode function then using in_array and if to confirm its not there :

if(in_array($blocked_user, explode($row['blocked'])){
  exit;
}

but now i want to get rid of this and do it using a single query, how is it done ?

Answer 1

You should really put each of the CSV values in different rows (perhaps in a blocked table), but what you can do is this:

SELECT * 
FROM tbl
WHERE FIND_IN_SET('$blocked_user', blocked) = 0

If the $blocked_user is contained within the CSV list in the blocked column, that row is not selected.

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