You're testing for description being logically true and longdescription matching whatever $search looks like. To get a case-insensitive match, you could transform everything to one case with UPPER(), say. Use placeholders.

$sth = $dbh->prepare(
    "SELECT * FROM `items`
    WHERE
      UPPER(description) LIKE UPPER(?)
    OR
      UPPER(longdescription) LIKE UPPER(?)");
$sth->execute($search,$search) or die $dbh->errstr;

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You should consider listing the columns you want, instead of using the wildcard. That way you don't fetch unneeded data, and can control the order of results.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: MySQL Like Statement and case sensitivity by Zaxo
in thread MySQL Like Statement and case sensitivity by andrew

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