I have an issue that I am stuck in,
I have a table called wpg_original_word
with field tags, which contains comma separated values and what I want to achieve is search for tags which are starting with the letter 'd'
I have written the query
SELECT DISTINCT tags FROM wpg_original_word WHERE tags LIKE 'd%' ;
It returns the whole string like 'Diabetes, Nutrition, Dietician'
, but I want only the Diabetes, Dietician
.
Any help?
You could split the string with PHP, use the following code
<?php
$string = 'Diabetes, Nutrition, Dietician';
$array = explode(',', $string);
$result = array();
foreach ($array as $part) {
if (substr(strtolower(trim($part)),0,1) == 'd') {
array_push($result, trim($part));
}
}
var_dump($result);
See it in action here. http://codepad.org/SVk7FPx9
You can use in_array()
to check for a string in your query and then print it.