Advanced search in Doctrine 1

Question

I am using LIKE query in DOCTRINE1 to search keywords in DB. Here is the example : I have a string available in DB "Developer in the hell"

$str = "Developer in the hell";
$srchKey = "%" . mysql_real_escape_string($searchString) . "%";
$q = Doctrine_Query::create()->from("Movie as m")
                             ->where('m.name LIKE '."'$srchKey'". ' or m.keywords LIKE'."'$srchKey'")
                             ->fetchArray();

The concern is if I search for "Developer" it returns me the result but if I search for "Developer hell" is returns me nothing. Because middle to words from the string are skipped.

Is there any wild card/advance options/conditions that DOCTRINE provide to handle such case.

Answer 1

First of all, you're doing it wrong when building the query.

Doctrine escape parameter that you give to the query, so you don't have to use mysql_real_escape_string on your own.

$str = "Developer in the hell";
$srchKey = "%" . $str . "%";
$q = Doctrine_Query::create()
    ->from("Movie as m")
    ->where('m.name LIKE ? or m.keywords LIKE ?', array($srchKey, $srchKey))
    ->fetchArray();

About your search engine, you should have a look at the Searchable behavior. It will be more powerfull than a simple LIKE query. But I don't know if it handle multiple term search like you want.

Or you can give a try to Lucene. A tutorial is available as part of the Jobeet tutorials.