MySQL Search Query

Databases
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Hi,

You might have seen on websites that they allow you to search by:

"Exact word"
"All Words"
"Any words"

So for the first one i.e exact word, we use the SQL clause WHERE TITLE = 'xyz'
For the "all words" search we use the SQL clause WHERE TITLE LIKE '%xyz%'

(Pls correct me if I am wrong with the above)

I was wondering how do we make an mysql search for search strings like "hello world", such that if either the word "hello" is found anywhere in the TITLE column or the word "world" is found in the TITLE column, it should display the matching results.

Pls can anyone help me out?

Thanks
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Exact word/phrase:

WHERE title LIKE ‘%hello world%’

Any word:

WHERE title LIKE ‘%hello%’ OR title LIKE ‘%world%’

All words:

WHERE title LIKE ‘%hello%’ AND title LIKE ‘%world%’

Note there will be some work your application logic will have to carry out in order to split a search term up into multiple words, if necessary for the search :slight_smile: