Remove record num from _link

23 posts by 4 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: December 12, 2012   (RSS)

By Jason - December 12, 2012

Hi Kevin,

There isn't a trim taking place, since the only difference between the 2 tests is the presence of a trailing space inside the record, which wouldn't appear in the query. One thing you can try is to trim the address field in the database from inside your where clause like this:

// load records
list($listingsRecords, $listingsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'listings',
'where' => " TRIM(address) LIKE '".mysql_escape($title_like)."'",
'limit' => '1',
));

This should remove any leading or trailing spaces before the LIKE comparison is done.

Hope this helps
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By Jason - December 12, 2012

Hi Kevin,

What was happening is that the value stored in the database was "Acorn Lodge " but we were searching for "Acorn_Lodge", which doesn't take allow for the trailing space at the end. Using TRIM(address) removes the trailing space, so we are then comparing "Acorn Lodge" to "Acorn_Lodge". The "_" is a MySQL is a wildcard that can represent any character, in this case a space. So these two strings are now the same.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,


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