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    <p>I am using a search box to find entries in my database. One column contains the title / name of the thing being looked for. Then I have a second column which gives a short description as applicable (few words usually)</p> <p>I am trying to search (with the search box) to match either one or even both of the cells combined. Is that possible, and if yes, how?</p> <p>You can see my code below which kind of shows what I try to achieve, but in any case, let me illustrate this a bit:</p> <pre><code>Example: Database.title = "towel" Database.description = "red, small" Now, if I type into my search box "tow%red" I want to find the item. </code></pre> <p>It obviously does not find it, because the title does not contain "red". But if I search for "towel" only, it might show me different items based on different sizes, colors, or other attributes and the list becomes too long. Of course I also want to be able to simply search for "%red%small% and still be able to find it, or just search for "towel".</p> <p>Here is my php code that does the search:</p> <pre><code>if ( !isset($_REQUEST['term']) ) { exit; } $search = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['term']); $queryString = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE title+description LIKE '%{$search}%'"; $query = mysql_query($queryString); $data = array(); if ( $query &amp;&amp; mysql_num_rows($query) ) { while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_ASSOC) ) { $label = $row['title']; if ($row['description']) { $label .= ' &amp;mdash; '. $row['description']; } $data[] = array( 'label' =&gt; $label, 'value' =&gt; $row['code'] ); } } echo json_encode($data); flush(); </code></pre> <p>I know the above is not going to work, I just put it that way to make clear what I want. The working code contains this line instead:</p> <pre><code>$queryString = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE title LIKE '%{$search}%'"; </code></pre>
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