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Asked: 2026-06-14T11:41:36+00:00

So, I’m new in PHP and Database and I have a problem here: I

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So, I’m new in PHP and Database and I have a problem here:

I have a table called news and one of its column is tags. This column contains 1 or more tags separated by whitespaces, like economics politics sports. And I have a page which will receive one or more tags as a single parameter and I have to return all rows that contains at least one of this tags.

I could explode the tags and do as many database access as necessary but I’m sure this is not the way to do it =p

LIKE and IN won’t work either because the paramater may contain more than 1 tag in any order.

Any help?

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  1. Editorial Team

    That isn’t how to structure that.

    Have a table called news, one called tags, and one called tagsToNews.

    In tagsToNews just record the news items ID and the tag ID, then do a join to get what you want. This also means a tag can be renamed without breaking everything!

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