Mysql SELECT Help needed

[archael]

first of all my script is a perl script. It takes a query in the environment and cuts it into exactly what i want. Can be a combination of up to 3 search terms and a category. There is no problem there.

On my SELECT part for my query, something goes wrong.

All my terms are always perfect whether only 1 or 3 or even none are present.

Here is what i have:

SELECT * FROM Table WHERE description like '%$search%' OR description like '%$search2%' order by ID limit 0,144;

When i have only 1 search term its fine, when i have 2 or 3 it messes up, have no idea why.

Anyone might know?

Jon

[raymor]

Try printing out the query, as it's seen by MySQL:
$query = "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE description like '%$search%' OR description like '%$search2%' order by ID limit 0,144"
print "query: $query\n";

Also what does "it doesn't work" mean?
Do you get an error message? If so, what does it say?
DO you just not get the results you expected?

I suspect that if you read the query that gets printed
aloud and translate it into English you'll see where your problem is.
I could just tell you, but I'd rather teach you how to find it.

[archael]

thanks a lot for helping out bro, its working now thanks to you ;)

Jon