Question

So i have this PM system.

At the recipient field, You can type in the full name of who you want to write to.

So I want to help the user alittle, if he don’t remember the name.

So if you want to write the full name “Megan Fox” and only know:

Megan
Megan F
Megan Fo
Meg Fo
M Fox
etc..

It will return “Did you mean Megan Fox?” This already works fine.

Now what I need In this is that if you write only Fox , with no firstname, i want it to echo “Did you mean Megan Fox?”

Here’s where Im stuck, as it creates $lastname after the space. And i really don’t want to use two fields for first and last.

How can I do that?

Here’s my code:

list($firstname, $lastname) = array_map('ucfirst', explode(' ', $mot, 2));
$qur = mysql_query("
 SELECT id, firstname, lastname, 
 (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname = '$lastname') AS full FROM users 
 WHERE (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname='$lastname') 
 OR (firstname LIKE '$firstname%' AND lastname LIKE '$lastname%')
 ORDER BY (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname='$lastname') DESC");
 $get = mysql_fetch_array($qur);

 if($get["full"] == 1){
 echo $get["id"];
 }else{
 echo "Did you mean: ".$get["firstname"]." ".$get["lastname"]." ?";
 }

Answer 1

This should work.

$qur = mysql_query("
 SELECT id, firstname, lastname, 
 (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname = '$lastname') AS full FROM users 
 WHERE (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname='$lastname') 
 OR (firstname LIKE '$firstname%' AND lastname LIKE '$lastname%')
 OR ('$lastname' = '' AND lastname LIKE '$firstname%')
 ORDER BY (firstname = '$firstname' AND lastname='$lastname') DESC");