mysq search criteria problem

[neilfurry]

hello mate,

 

im having problem making a search criteria work....

 

i have a field named fullname, inside that field i have a data eg: "Robert Williams"

 

Im trying to use LIKE on mysql statement such as

 

SELECT fullname FROM clients WHERE fullname LIKE '%keyword%' keyword being any character from the name "Robert Williams". but when i tried to search "Williams R" it will not show me "Robert Williams"...

 

Then, how can i make it so that when i search for "Williams R" it will also show me "Robert Williams"

 

What im trying to attain here is to search any name in any order whether firstname first of lastname first.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Cheers!

 

Neil

[requinix]

a) Instead of using fullname LIKE "%Williams R%" make it do fullname LIKE "%Williams%" AND fullname LIKE "%R%".

b) If the search has two "words" make it do fullname LIKE "%Williams%R%" OR fullname LIKE "%R%Williams%". Three would probably "Last F M" so that would be OR fullname LIKE "%F%M%Last%".

 

That lone "R" sucks.

[neilfurry]

a) Instead of using fullname LIKE "%Williams R%" make it do fullname LIKE "%Williams%" AND fullname LIKE "%R%".

b) If the search has two "words" make it do fullname LIKE "%Williams%R%" OR fullname LIKE "%R%Williams%". Three would probably "Last F M" so that would be OR fullname LIKE "%F%M%Last%".

 

That lone "R" sucks.

note that this search query can be another name not just Williams Robert... so that should be $keyword sent via $_REQUEST method

[neilfurry]

so for example:

 

$keyword =""

 

When i search using the following query:

 

SELECT fullname FROM clients WHERE fullname LIKE '%".$keyword."%'

 

if i have John Doe on my clients table and i want to search Doe Jo... it should also return the name John Doe... as the search $keyword name is just a reverse of the fullname.

[requinix]

Yeah... I didn't mean for you to put literally "Williams R" in the query. It was an example.