Date: 12/21/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: no keywords

I have a col, cats, that contains data like "#Art, Music, & Books#Consumer Electronics#Cruises"

When I am selecting rows, I want to see if any elements in an array match a sub string in cats.

Sample array to match: UserCats = array('Cruises', 'Baby');

I guess what I want to do is convert cats to an array and then find out if it intersects with UserCats.

THX

Here is my current working query


SELECT
ad.userID,
ad.adID,
ad.adTitle,
ad.adBlurb,
ad.endDate,
ad.postingDate,
ad.paymentStatus,
loc.userAdID,
loc.streetAddress,
loc.city,
loc.zip,
loc.state,
u.vendorCompanyName,
u.phone

FROM fb_user AS u
INNER JOIN vendorAd AS ad ON u.userID = ad.userID
LEFT JOIN adLocation AS loc ON ad.userID = loc.userID AND ad.userAdID = loc.userAdID

WHERE ad.status = \"active\"
AND ad.paymentStatus =\"mickeymouse\"
AND ad.hideRecord =\"n\"
AND ad.endDate >= \"".$formattedToday."\"
AND (loc.zip IN($zips) OR loc.city IN($cities))

ORDER BY ad.endDate


Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/79325.html