Re: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement
change your query to this: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1 word2 word3%' or description like 'word1 word2 word3%'; Peter On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
if you want to search for multiple words, u have to use multiple like operators: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; or the IN statement with wildcards: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name IN ('%word1%','%word2%','%word3%'); -- im not too sure of this, would the experts please shed some more light on this one if its correct? Amit On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
Yeah I really need to search for multiple words. Can anyone confirm if the IN statement will work for me in this situation? On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want to search for multiple words, u have to use multiple like operators: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; or the IN statement with wildcards: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name IN ('%word1%','%word2%','%word3%'); -- im not too sure of this, would the experts please shed some more light on this one if its correct? Amit On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
You can't use wildcards with IN, only with LIKE or regular expressions. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Amit_Wadhwa;Dell.com] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement? if you want to search for multiple words, u have to use multiple like operators: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; or the IN statement with wildcards: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name IN ('%word1%','%word2%','%word3%'); -- im not too sure of this, would the experts please shed some more light on this one if its correct? Amit On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
Chris Barnes wrote: Yeah I really need to search for multiple words. Can anyone confirm if the IN statement will work for me in this situation? Chris -- Why not just try it you self and let's us know. Also check to MySQL doc at http://mysql.org David On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want to search for multiple words, u have to use multiple like operators: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; or the IN statement with wildcards: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name IN ('%word1%','%word2%','%word3%'); -- im not too sure of this, would the experts please shed some more light on this one if its correct? Amit On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
ok so you would have to use : --select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; no other go. .. You can't use wildcards with IN, only with LIKE or regular expressions. ---John Holmes... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Amit_Wadhwa;Dell.com] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement? if you want to search for multiple words, u have to use multiple like operators: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; or the IN statement with wildcards: select count(distinct itemid) from business where name IN ('%word1%','%word2%','%word3%'); -- im not too sure of this, would the experts please shed some more light on this one if its correct? Amit On 4 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I've got a dilly of a problem. I'm probably doing something wrong but I don't know what. I'm trying to use the LIKE statement in a query where more than one word is used in with LIKE..e.g. select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like 'word1 word2 word3%' The problem I'm having is probably obvious to you but I don't know why this returns no matches but if i specify only 1 word in the LIKE statement then it returns a match. Am i not able to specify more than 1 word with LIKE or am I just doing it wrong? It has been designed to take input from a web form by the variable $search_string and then the query string is constructed from that e.g. $query = select count(distinct itemid) from business where name or description like' . $search_string . '; Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. --- Peter BeckmanSystems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DB] LIKE statement or IN statement?
ok so you would have to use : --select count(distinct itemid) from business where name like 'word1' or name like 'word2' or name like 'word3'; no other go. If you're not going to use wildcards, then you can use IN. The whole idea of using LIKE is that you can use _ and % as wildcards when searching. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php