MySQL REGEXP Search

Question

I have made a search engine which works well, but I want it to disregard symbols in the database entries.

eg I search for A*BC

In the database I have a column that contains ABC.

I would like it to bring back this record even thought it has symbols in.

How would I do this?

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Hi, I tried that but it does not work.

Here is my code:

$query = '%' . rawurlencode($queryRaw) . '%' ;

        $queryClean = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "%", $query) ;

        $result = $dbh->prepare("SELECT supplier_details.id as supid, name, languages.languages, countries.country
                                 FROM supplier_details, languages, countries
                                 WHERE languageRef = languages.id
                                 AND countryRef = countries.id
                                 AND (name LIKE ? OR name LIKE ?)
                                 LIMIT 50") ;
            $result->bindParam(1, $query, PDO::PARAM_INT) ;
            $result->bindParam(2, $queryClean, PDO::PARAM_INT) ;
        $result->execute() ;

Answer 1

select * 
from tbl
where clmn like '%A%B%C%'