Hello, hope you are all well
I have a question. On my website I have a search facility, and when a user enters their search term it can either be interpreted as a category (held in my categories table) or a name of a title of a story (held in my stories table).
Now in the stories table each story
belongs to a category from the categories table, which is storied as a foreign key in the stories table.
Now say the term entered is "racing" on my website for example, what I do is this currently is
(1) run a like query on the categories table to find all the catid's where term like '%racing%' to
hold those id values in an array to use them in my later query like so
Code:
Select catid from categories where name like '%racing%'
(2) Then run a search on my stories table to find all the stories where the term is like '%racing%' as well as imploding on the results of the previous query like so
Code:
Select * from stories where name like '%racing%' OR catid IN ('".implode("','",$array)."')
Then echo the results of this query on my page.
So currently I run two queries, which works OK, but I'd love to get it into one query. Is this possible?
Thank You