Question

so I have a query for a search function like so:

    $query1 = $db->prepare("SELECT DISTINCT artistName, artistID, artistTags FROM artists WHERE artistName REGEXP :query  OR artistTags REGEXP :query");
$query1->bindParam(":query", $q);

Which works great, but I noticed an issue with an artist name ‘+44’ where it will not return the result. My question is how do I properly escape the + (and other) character to work in the REGEXP function of MySql.

Thanks

Answer 1

Put double backslash before it

\\+44