Codeigniter: Weird behaviour of $this->db->like()

Question

I\'ve written a simple query for searching a keyword in the database.

$keyword = \"keyword sample\"; 
$keyword = str_replace(\" \", \"%\", $keyword);   

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Answer 1

You just try it like this:

$this->db->select('*')
$this->db->from('table');
$this->db->like('column', $keyword);
return $this->db->get()->result_array();

If you want to control where the wildcard (%) is placed, you can use an optional third argument. Your options are 'before', 'after' and 'both' (which is the default).

example:

$this->db->select('*')
$this->db->from('table');
$this->db->like('column', $keyword, 'before');
return $this->db->get()->result_array();

If you do not want to use the wildcard (%) you can pass to the optional third argument the option 'none'.

example:

$this->db->select('*')
$this->db->from('table');
$this->db->like('column', $keyword, 'none');
return $this->db->get()->result_array();

BUT, for your example you must need to search like "%keyword sample%", or like "%keyword%" OR "%simple%";

For example:

$this->db->like('column', 'keyword simple');
// Produces: WHERE column LIKE '%keyword simple%' 

OR

$this->db->like('column', 'keyword');
$this->db->or_like('column', 'simple');
// Produces: WHERE column LIKE '%keyword%' OR column LIKE '%simple%'  

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