Mysql search query two columns

Question

I\'m bulding a search function for my web site and wish to search by two columns: title and author.

Query:

SELECT title, bookID, publisher, pubDate, boo         


        

Answer 1

SELECT title, bookID, publisher, pubDate, book_image, books.authorID, authors.author 
FROM books, authors 
WHERE books.authorID = authors.authorID 
        AND (title LIKE '$queryString%' OR author LIKE '$queryString%')LIMIT 5

this should do the work

Answer 2

Try it out:

SELECT bk.title, bk.bookID, bk.publisher, bk.pubDate, bk.book_image, bk.authorID, au.author
FROM books bk,  authors au
WHERE bk.authorID = au.authorID AND bk.title LIKE '$queryString%' OR au.author LIKE '$queryString%' LIMIT 5

Answer 3

Try below :

SELECT title, bookID, publisher, pubDate, book_image, books.authorID, authors.author 
FROM books left join  authors on  books.authorID = authors.authorID 
WHERE (title LIKE '$queryString%' OR author LIKE '$queryString%') LIMIT 5

I would like to suggest you to use fulltext search in mysql.That will be more faster and efficient