Question

I’m trying to get results for articles that have a title or subcategory name similar to the request.

Table 1
Subcategory_ID Subcategory_Name

Table 2
Article_ID   Title  Subcategory_ID

Now I need to fetch articles from table 2 where title or subcategory_names match what we’re looking for.

Here is what I have, but I can’t come up with the rest

 SELECT table1.*, table2.* FROM table1,table2 WHERE table2.title = '%keyword%'

and the rest I mess up…

What is the solution?

Answer 1

SELECT table1.*, table2.* FROM table1, table2 
  WHERE table1.Subcategory_ID=table2.Subcategory_ID 
  AND (table2.title LIKE '%keyword%' OR table1.Subcategory_Name LIKE '%keyword%')

With MySQL INNER JOIN it is implicit if you use “table1.Subcategory_ID=table2.Subcategory_ID” in the WHERE clause.