Ignoring apostrophes in mysql searches

Question

I want to take a url that does not have any apostrophes, commas or ampersands in it and match it with a record in a database that may have one of those characters.

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Answer 1

It's a little janky, but you could explode the GET and build a WHERE on multiple conditions.

Something like (untested):

$name_array = explode("-", $_GET['name']);

$sql_str = "SELECT * FROM the_records WHERE ";

$first_time = true;
foreach($name_array as $name){
    if ($name != ""){
        if ($first_time){
            $sql_str .= "name LIKE \"%".$name."%\"";
            $first_time = false;
        }
        else {
            $sql_str .= " AND name LIKE \"%".$name."%\"";
        }
    }
}