Question

I’m using MySQL version 5.0.51a and PHP to access the database, and this query returns nothing when it should return at least 2 rows which match the LIKE condition.

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE name LIKE '%".$search."%'OR email LIKE    '%".$search."%' ORDER BY ".$order, $con);

The $search variable is ‘Name‘,

there is no problem with ORDER, $order or $con, i’ve already tried that, and there are 2 rows where the name is ‘Name’, but somehow it can’t find those rows and it returns nothing.

Does anybody know where the problem is?

Answer 1

Try removing double commas

$result = mysql_query("
                    SELECT 
                        * 
                    FROM user 
                    WHERE name LIKE '%{$search}%' OR email LIKE '%{$search}%' 
                    ORDER BY ".$order, $con);