PHP/MySQL 搜索结果 - 完全匹配优先

Question

Let's say I have a series of options which the user is searching for via a JQuery autocomplete dropdown:

Shiplake

Lake

Uplake

Downlake

When the user types in "Lake" they get the results sorted alphabetically:

Downlake

Lake

Shiplake

Uplake

The code in question is something like

"SELECT name FROM names WHERE name LIKE '%".$q."%' ORDER BY name ASC"

But what I'd like is if the query matches EXACTLY a name, it would appear first then everything else alphabetically - so

Lake

Downlake

Shiplake

Uplake

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

You can always add an ORDER BY clause:

ORDER BY name=? DESC, name

Where that sorts by exact match first, then by the actual value second. ? represents a placeholder value for the search term.