yii2 ActiveQuery 'OR LIKE' filter

Question

i have a task - add to search model searching by full name. Full name is first name + last name. So i need to build query like

WHERE first_name LIKE '%var%' OR last_name LIKE '%var%'

The only way i could do it :

$query->andFilterWhere([
'OR',
'profiles.first_name LIKE "%' . $this->userFullName . '%" ',
'profiles.last_name LIKE "%' . $this->userFullName . '%"'
]);

But i dont like it because % its unsafe. I dont know how... I think there is the way to build such query with yii2 active builder, and i would like to get in result smth like

$query->andFilterWhere(['LIKE', 'profiles.first_name', $this->userFullName]);
$query->andFilterWhere(['OR LIKE', 'profiles.last_name', $this->userFullName]);

The problem is in the query Like, i could use array as the values that attribute will be comapred but i cant use array as list of attributes to be compared with.

or

$subQuery1 = Profile::find()->Where(['LIKE', 'profiles.first_name', $this->userFullName]);
$subQuery2 = Profile::find()->Where(['LIKE', 'profiles.last_name', $this->userFullName]);
//i think its overloaded(3 queries insteadof 1 but still) and the final query
$query->andFilterWhere([
'OR',
$subQuery1,
$subQuery2
]);

Any ideas how to build query whithout "%"?

Answer 1

You should simply try :

$query->andFilterWhere([
    'or',
    ['like', 'profiles.first_name', $this->userFullName],
    ['like', 'profiles.last_name', $this->userFullName],
]);

or: similar to the and operator except that the operands are concatenated using OR. For example, ['or', ['type' => [7, 8, 9]], ['id' => [1, 2, 3]] will generate (type IN (7, 8, 9) OR (id IN (1, 2, 3))).

Read more : http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-db-queryinterface.html#where()-detail