Question

So I have a DB and a web page where I want to display the result of my db search

I have try a couple ways both work but they are incomplete for what I want to accomplish

I want to be able to search my table columns id,Id_Nombre,Pais,Estado,Ciudad,website all of them with a word or several words from my search text.

this code works but I have to type exactly the word it’s case sensitive:

$query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE concat(id,Id_Nombre,Pais,Estado,Ciudad,website) LIKE '%$Busqueda%'";

so as a result i I type a word like “People” in my search box and in my data base that word is type in any of those columns as “people” it wont find it.

second code I use works but only using one column

$query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE UPPER(Id_Nombre) LIKE UPPER('%$Busqueda%')";

the result for this code is great since it will find it no matter the case used, but I need to extend this type of search to all the other columns, but so far everithing I use does not work.

I have tried:

 $query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE UPPER(id,Id_Nombre,Pais,Estado,Ciudad,website) LIKE UPPER('%$Busqueda%')";

  $query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE UPPER(concat(id,Id_Nombre,Pais,Estado,Ciudad,website)) LIKE UPPER('%$Busqueda%')";

  $query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE concat(UPPER(id,Id_Nombre,Pais,Estado,Ciudad,website)) LIKE UPPER('%$Busqueda%')";

etc.
any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Did you try UPPER around each column name? Like this:

$query = "SELECT * FROM Medios_table WHERE concat(UPPER(id),UPPER(Id_Nombre),UPPER(Pais),UPPER(Estado),UPPER(Ciudad),UPPER(website)) LIKE UPPER('%$Busqueda%')";