Is it possible to bind a Param WHERE name as%: name%
I am testing a small search function:
But I ran into an error that I cannot solve. You can see the PDO request here:
$search = "test1"; //later to be changes to $_POST ['search'];
$sql = "SELECT id, name FROM clients WHEE name like %:name% order by id LIMIT 5";
$stm = $db->prepare ( $sql );
$stm->bindParam ( ":name" , $search);
$result = $stm->execute ();
As you can see, I'm trying to bind a parameter %:name%
from my request, but I don't know if this is actually possible?
I am getting the error:
Undefined exception "PDOException" with message "SQLSTATE [42000]: .....
And I see in error that '' is placed around test1% 'test1'%
Is what I am trying to do possible, or do I need to do something like this?
$query = "SELECT id, name FROM clients WHEE name like :name order by id LIMIT 5";
$sql->execute(array(":name" => "%" .$search . "%"));
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