Question

In my users table I have a first and last name field.

I also have a search for user by last name but when there is a user like L’Orange searching for

• lor
• LOr
• L’O
• l’o

does not work while

• L\’O does (which makes sense but not something a user would think of)

So, how can my query account for that? Right now in my query I have

OR (CONCAT(`lName`, ', ', `fName`) LIKE '$term')

I’d like the search lo or l’o to work (I think) Is there any reason the search should require the ‘?

Answer 1

How about you take the incoming search term and apply mysql_real_escape_string to it?

$term = mysql_real_escape_string($term);

then

OR (CONCAT(`lName`, ', ', `fName`) LIKE '$term')

should work. The user will have to search for l’o or L’O, but that should work.