Combine mysql query result

Question

I am searching for words that contain "un" from two columns in a database table. How can I get both row data in the output $data?

Example:

col1 | col2


tom -------- unfriendly

train ------- fast

unused--- cloth 

.

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table 
WHERE col1 LIKE '%un%' 
OR col2 LIKE '%un%' 
ORDER BY col1 ASC");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    $data[] = $row['col1'];
}

I get $data = [tom,unused] from the above code. How can I get $data = [ tom - friendly, unused - cloth] ?

Answer 1

As @TimBegeleisen said, you can use CONCAT in your SQL request, but you could also concat your string in your PHP code :

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table 
WHERE col1 LIKE '%un%' 
OR col2 LIKE '%un%' 
ORDER BY col1 ASC");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    $data[] = $row['col1'] . ' - ' . $data['col2'];
}

Answer 2

Try using CONCAT :

SELECT CONCAT(col1, ' - ', col2) AS result
FROM table 
WHERE col1 LIKE '%un%' OR
      col2 LIKE '%un%' 
ORDER BY col1 ASC

And then you would access the result set in your PHP code via:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    $data[] = $row['result'];
}