Mysql search with comma delimited string

Question

I have 1 mysql table called colors with rows id and name

1 - yellow
2 - black
3 - red
4 - green
5 - white
6 - bl         


        

Answer 1

Try this

$colors = "blue,red,white";

// Exploding string to array
$colors = explode($colors, ',');
$colors_list = array();
foreach($colors as &$color)
{
   // Escaping every element
   $colors_list[] = "'".mysql_real_escape_string($color)."'";
}

// Executing the query
$query = mysql_query('SELECT `id` FROM `colors` WHERE `name` IN ('.implode(', ', $colors_list).')');

http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php