How can the LIKE operator in SQL be utilized to search for specific patterns in PHP?

To utilize the LIKE operator in SQL to search for specific patterns in PHP, you can use the '%' wildcard character to represent any sequence of characters and the '_' wildcard character to represent any single character. This allows you to search for patterns within a string column in a database query. 

$searchTerm = "pattern";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE column_name LIKE '%$searchTerm%'";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0){
    while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
        // Process the results
    }
} else {
    echo "No results found.";
}

Keywords

PHP SQL LIKE operator search patterns specific

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