Question

What I am trying to do: Multi word search, and when the user selects pub from the drop down it needs to only retrieve records where pub is not equal to ‘-‘ in the table.

What’s going wrong: It does some filtering but the last record is a record with a ‘-‘

What I have tried:

I’ve tried the following query in the MySQL console.

My query:

SELECT * FROM ticker where pub <> '-' AND (summary LIKE '%funny%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%funny%') OR (summary LIKE '%joke%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%joke%') OR (summary LIKE '%impact%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%impact%') ORDER BY `created` DESC

The above query is generated via:

constructing the multi-word search..

$words = explode(" ",$keywords);

        $queryWords = '';
        $i=0;  

        foreach($words as $each){
            $i++;

            if ($i == 1){
                $queryWords.=" (summary LIKE '%$each%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%$each%') ";   
            }
            else{
                $queryWords.=" OR (summary LIKE '%$each%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%$each%') ";    
            }
          }

snippet of query code..

elseif ($ticket_type == 'Pub'){
                if ($status == 'All'){
                        if (empty($product)){
                            $query="SELECT * FROM ticker where pub <> '-' AND".$queryWords."ORDER BY `$order_by` DESC";
                        }

EDIT: Sample search string is ‘funny joke impact’

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT * FROM ticker 
WHERE TRIM(pub) != '-' 
  AND (
    (summary LIKE '%funny%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%funny%') 
    OR
    (summary LIKE '%joke%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%joke%')
    OR 
    (summary LIKE '%impact%' OR cust_exp LIKE '%impact%')
  ) 
ORDER BY `created` DESC