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mysqli LIKE query does not work


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Hello every one

$db_mysqli_connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "root", "PSE_database");
if (mysqli_connect_errno($db_mysqli_connect)) {
echo 'Some error occurred during connection to the database';}
$LIKE = "rammstein";
if ($stmt = mysqli_prepare($db_mysqli_connect, "SELECT document_title FROM pse_docs WHERE document_title LIKE ?")) {
    mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $LIKE);
    mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
    $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
    if(mysqli_num_rows($result) !== 0) {
        while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
			echo $row['document_title']. "<br>";
			}
		}
    else { echo "Not Found"; }
}
else { trigger_error('Unable query users table: ' . mysqli_error($db_mysqli_connect)); }
mysqli_free_result($result);
mysqli_stmt_close($stmt);
mysqli_close($db_mysqli_connect);

this code does not work, it returns nothing,

btw, document title is Rammstein !

 

Thanks.

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You use LIKE with wildcards when you are searching for something that contains the search string. If you are looking for an exact match use "=". In this case it could be that perhaps the title in the db has extra space character at the end.

 

Try this with your current query

$LIKE ="%rammstein%";

If that fails it could be you are using a case-sensitive collation.

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