And yes, the specific column does exist already.
Also, when you wrote this portion:
$this->Model->find('all', array('conditions' => array('Model.lastname LIKE'
=> '%' . $searchterm . '%')));
I didn't see that in the tutorial, where did you get this?
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Dee Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I understand correctly you want to search for a literal 'Smith' and not
> any %Smith% which yeilds results containing Smith as well? If you have a
> column for last name already you can just alter your find query in the
> controller to only bring back that specific item
>
> $this->Model->find('all', array('conditions' => array('Model.lastname' =>
> $searchterm)));
> as opposed to
> $this->Model->find('all', array('conditions' => array('Model.lastname
> LIKE' => '%' . $searchterm . '%')));
>
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