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Posted by: arial
Date: November 29, 2006 03:42PM

I'm having a problem. I have two tables setup for a DVD Database.

One table is called "dvd_data" it contains the DVD title, release year, cast, ect...

The second table is called "stars" it contains the stars full name along with a unique id.

The dvd_data table has a column called "stars" that has text like: ,1,2,3,4,

The stars table looks like:
ID Name
1 John Doe 1
2 John Doe 1
3 John Doe 1
4 John Doe 1

Right now the query I have to search for text is:
SELECT *, ( (1.3 * (MATCH(`title`) AGAINST ('$qstring' IN BOOLEAN MODE))) + (0.6 * (MATCH(`desc`) AGAINST ('$qstring' IN BOOLEAN MODE))) ) AS relevance FROM `dvd_data` WHERE ( MATCH(`title`, `desc`) AGAINST ('$qstring' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ) HAVING relevance > 0 AND `status`='1' ORDER BY relevance DESC LIMIT $start , $limit

However I would like for it to search the stars also. Since the names arent in the same table how could I go about it?

Currently I search for stars like this:

First query: SELECT * FROM `stars` WHERE name LIKE '$_GET[q]%' AND `status`='1'

Then after getting the stars unique id I do this: SELECT * FROM `dvd_data` WHERE `stars` LIKE '%,$r[id],%' AND `status`='1'

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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