Multiple keywords in SELECT LIKE

Question

I have a search function on my site which uses GET. I have been trying to code something that would take words out of the GET post and then search in using SQL. This is what I been able to do:

$id = $_GET["search"];  
$searchTerms = explode(' ', $id);
$searchTermBits = array();
foreach ($searchTerms as $term) {
    $term = trim($term);
    if (!empty($term)) {
        $searchTermBits[] = "Name LIKE '%$term%'"
    }
}

$lol = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE .implode(' AND ', $searchTermBits).")

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I get the following error:

 You have an error in your SQL syntax;
 check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server 
 version for the right syntax to use near '(' AND ', Array).' at line 1

Answer 1

$lol = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE .implode(' AND ', $searchTermBits).")

should be

$lol = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE ". implode(' AND ', $searchTermBits). "")

Answer 2

implode is just a part of the string in your case, you need to take it out from quotes:

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE ".implode(' AND ', $searchTermBits))

Answer 3

you are using php implode function inside the double quote.place it outside the double quotes like this.

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database WHERE ".implode(' AND ', $searchTermBits))