Cheking multiple columns in a table with single select query

Question

I'm passing a value to the database(Say-'gupta'). I want to compare this value with all the columns present in the database table. If any column value matched the particular value then I want to simply print that row in my Php Page. Is there any inbuilt function to do this using select query.If yes please tell me. Remember i want to compare the passed value('gupta') with the multiple columns values in the database(corephp+mysql)

Answer 1

USE LIKE along with OR. eg.

Select * from table where (col1 like '%gupta%') or (col2 like '%gupta%')

so any col matches your input word, this will return the row.

Answer 2

只是一个主意

select * from TableName where "gupta" IN (ColumnOne,ColumnTwo,ColumnThree)