Question

In a database i have a table prospect and has two columns firstname and lastname.

Now the issue is that i want to search in both columns; the easy solution would be to use a query like

SELECT * FROM `prospect` WHERE lastname like '%piece of lastname%' or firstname like '%piece of firstname%'

This however requires to have two search fields, firstname and lastname. I want that users can search in one field. How should a query look like when I want to achieve this?

Answer 1

Do you mean you want to search the concatenation of two fields? Then you can use something like:

SELECT * FROM prospect
WHERE CONCAT(firstname,' ',lastname) LIKE '%ohn Smit%'