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Prashank
Prashank

Reputation: 796

Search multiple columns in two mysql tables?

I have two tables and a search form to just search for a keyword. I am trying to search for that keyword on two table for multiple columns and if the query matches get the id column for further use. I have tried this (suppose "coupon" is the term user is searching for)

SELECT `ID` FROM `Profiles` AS `p` WHERE `p`.`Status` = 'Active' AND `p`.`Address`
LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`BusinessName` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`BusinessSubCategory`
LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`DescriptionMe` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`Tags` LIKE '%coupon%'
UNION SELECT `id` FROM `products` AS `d` WHERE `d`.`status` = 'approved' AND
`d`.`title` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `d`.`desc` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `d`.`tags` LIKE '%coupon%'

Here i want the id of profile and id of products that matches the keyword. I tried this and this is returning very strange results and looks like only profile ID. So, its a wrong query. What should be the query for this kind of search? INNER JOIN? Please give me some sample queries for this, i will be very grateful for any help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 168

Answers (2)

Sashi Kant
Sashi Kant

Reputation: 13465

Try this::

SELECT `ID`,'profile_ID' FROM 
`Profiles` AS `p` 
WHERE `p`.`Status` = 'Active' AND `p`.`Address`
LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`BusinessName` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`BusinessSubCategory`
LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`DescriptionMe` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `p`.`Tags` LIKE '%coupon%'


UNION ALL

SELECT `id`, 'productID' FROM `products` AS `d` WHERE `d`.`status` = 'approved' AND
`d`.`title` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `d`.`desc` LIKE '%coupon%' OR `d`.`tags` LIKE '%coupon%'

Upvotes: 1

NewInTheBusiness
NewInTheBusiness

Reputation: 1475

First off, I wouldn't use AS p when you're not doing an INNER JOIN etc... seems like overdoing it plus I guess you need parentheses after AND - surrounding the ORs as well if you explicity want the to find results where status is "Active".

How about:

    SELECT ID FROM Profiles WHERE Status = 'Active' AND (Address LIKE '%coupon%' OR BusinessName LIKE '%coupon%' OR BusinessSubCategory LIKE '%coupon%' OR DescriptionMe LIKE '%coupon%' OR Tags LIKE '%coupon%')
UNION SELECT id FROM products WHERE status = 'approved' AND (title LIKE '%coupon%' OR desc LIKE '%coupon%' OR tags LIKE '%coupon%')

Upvotes: 2

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