MySQLi WHERE LIKE multiple criteria

Question

I have the following example table and attributes:

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|  Name  |       Town     |
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| Name 1 |      POOLE          


        

Answer 1

You could explode the towns, then loop through them and build the query like so:

$towns = explode('/', $global->getPlayerTown());
$first = true;
$like_sql = '';
foreach($towns as $town) {
    $like_sql .= $first ? ' WHERE ' : ' OR ';
    $like_sql .= "`Town` LIKE '%{$town}%'";
    $first = false;
}
$query = "SELECT * FROM `table` {$like_sql}";

However I would recommend you normalise your data, and have a separate towns table, with a user_town pivot table.