And if you'd like to make wild carding optional keep your code the way it
is:

    $query .= " AND `model` LIKE '".$_GET['search']."'";

And put a comment on the web page "Use the % for wild cards".

The thing about:
      $query .= " AND `model` LIKE '%".$_GET['search']."%'";

Is it will return many results if $_GET['search'] is very small like one
letter.

Good Luck,
Frank


On 2/24/04 8:20 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: "Nitin Mehta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:18:24 +0530
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "-{ Rene Brehmer }-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] how to do query on partial field contents ???
> 
> for partial match
> 
> like 'value' doesn't work, use
> like '%value%'
> 
> Hop that helps
> Nitin
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "-{ Rene Brehmer }-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:57 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DB] how to do query on partial field contents ???
> 


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