sql query to search from 2 fields mysql Fulltext - mysql

Question

I have a search that searches for songs in a database, currently they can search by artist or the title of the song. So at the moment they could search tom jones or its not unusual they couldn't search tom jones unusual. How do I make this possible my current SQL looks like this
SELECT *
FROM songs
WHERE artist LIKE '%$search%'
OR songname LIKE '%$search%'
LIMIT 6
I have added full text search to the artist and songname columns. Can't work out how to search on both rows.

Answer 1

Looks like you are using tom jones unusual as your search text '$search'. When you are using like in mysql it will search for the text pattern in the given field but when you enter tom jones unusual as the search text there are no occurrences for such a text. Because tom jones is in one field and unusual is in the other field
You can do following to get done what you want
get the full search text tom jones unusual
split the search text from the white spaces in to separate variables ex $ser1 = tom; $ser2 = jones; $ser3 = unusual;
then do something like this in mysql
select * from song where artist like '%$ser1%' or '%$ser2%' or '%$ser3%' or songname like '%$ser1%' or '%$ser2%' or '%$ser3%'

Answer 2

The solution to this is using full text search. You first need to define the rows you want to use in full text search you can do this with the following mysql command
ALTER TABLE songs
ADD FULLTEXT(artist, songtitle)
and then the sql query is
$sql = "SELECT * FROM songs WHERE MATCH (songname, artist) AGAINST ('$search') LIMIT 6";
This will return results only when there is a matching word if you want like results before a full word is typed you can so something like this.
$sql = "SELECT * FROM songs WHERE MATCH (songname, artist) AGAINST ('$search' IN BOOLEAN MODE) LIMIT 6";
$sqllike = "SELECT * FROM songs WHERE artist like '%$search%' OR songname like '%$search%' LIMIT 6";
$result = mysqli_query($con, $sql);
$resultlike = mysqli_query($con, $sqllike);
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo "<a href='". $row["songid"] . "' class='songclicker'>";
echo "<div class='song whitefont'>";
echo "<img src='" . $row["artwork"]."' class='songimage'>";
echo "<p>". $row["songname"] . "</p>";
echo "<p>". $row["artist"] . "</p></div>";
}
echo "<a href='". urlencode($search) ."'><h1 class='seeall'>See all search results</h1></a>";
} else {
if (mysqli_num_rows($resultlike) > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultlike)) {
echo "<a href='". $row["songid"] . "' class='songclicker'>";
echo "<div class='song whitefont'>";
echo "<img src='" . $row["artwork"]."' class='songimage'>";
echo "<p>". $row["songname"] . "</p>";
echo "<p>". $row["artist"] . "</p></div>";
}
echo "<a href='searchresults.php'><h1 class='seeall'>See all search results</h1></a>";
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
}