've been wracking my brain trying to find a solution for this for a couple of days. I'm trying to make a "smart" query that can handle a wide range of search terms. The queries run fine until there are special characters involved and I've had some success w/ the REPLACE method on some characters such as commas and dashes. Other characters such as quotes and ampersands will result in empty queries.
Here's a few examples:
the original name I'm searching for is "French Is Fun, Book 1 - 1 Year Option" and with this query below, I get results returned with these search terms:
1. "French Is Fun"
2. "French Is Fun, book"
3. "French Is Fun, book"
4. "French Is Fun, Book 1"
However, when the original title has an ampersand in it like such: "Global History & Geography: The Growth of Civilizations - 1 Year Option" - I get an empty query when I try these different search terms:
1. "Global History & Geography"
2. "Global History Geography"
I've tried this to no avail
I also tried adding an escape character to the ampersand and it doesn't help:
And commas in the name also return empty results. As a demonstration, the original name is this:
"Amsco's AP Calculus AB/BC Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examinations - 1 Year Option"
This attempt always returns empty queries:
Any ideas?
Here's a few examples:
the original name I'm searching for is "French Is Fun, Book 1 - 1 Year Option" and with this query below, I get results returned with these search terms:
1. "French Is Fun"
2. "French Is Fun, book"
3. "French Is Fun, book"
4. "French Is Fun, Book 1"
Code:
SELECT * FROM `products` WHERE ( (LOWER(name) LIKE '%french is fun book%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%french is fun book%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%french is fun book%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '-','')) LIKE '%french is fun book%')1. "Global History & Geography"
2. "Global History Geography"
I've tried this to no avail
Code:
SELECT * FROM `products` WHERE
(LOWER(name) LIKE '%global history geograph%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ',','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '&','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '-','')) LIKE '%global history geography%');Code:
SELECT * FROM `products` WHERE
(LOWER(name) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ',','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '\&','')) LIKE '%global history geography%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '-','')) LIKE '%global history geography%');"Amsco's AP Calculus AB/BC Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examinations - 1 Year Option"
This attempt always returns empty queries:
Code:
SELECT * FROM `products` WHERE
( (LOWER(name) LIKE '%amscos ap calculus%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ' ','')) LIKE '%amscos ap calculus%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '\'','')) LIKE '%amscos ap calculus%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, ',','')) LIKE '%amscos ap calculus%' OR
LOWER(replace(name, '-','')) LIKE '%amscos ap calculus%')
) AND ( (`products`.`type` = 'Rental' ) );Any ideas?