[Phpwm] MySQL case insensitive string comparison

[Mike Tipping]

There isn't a iLike in Mysql. :o(

I¹ve stated to use

select * from table where lower(name) = lower(Œ$value¹)

Which works but that doesn¹t seem a very efficient way of tying to get it to
behave as it should be behaving in the first place.




On 24/06/2010 13:49, "Dan Dart" <dandart at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Have you tried using the lower/upper/camel case instructions in PHP to make
> MySQL see what you want?
> 
> Jolly confusing how it all seems to contradict itself.
> 
>> On 24 Jun 2010 13:39, "Mike Tipping" <mike at etuna.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Whenever I run a select in Mysql based on a string comparison, the
>> comparison is always case sensitive so where 'name' in the DB is 'mike',
>> select * from table where name = 'MIKE'; won't return results.
>> 
>> Looking at the MySQL documentation it says that case sensitivity on
>> comparisons depends on the collation and if I use 'latin1_swedish_ci' (which
>> I do) the comparison will be case insensitive (which it isn't).
>> 
>> It also says that STRCMP() is by default case insensitive, but when I try
>> that it still doesn't return anything.
>> 
>> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong or what I can use to do a case
>> insensitive string comparison in MySQL.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
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