Took me forever to find this elsewhere in the notes in the manual, so I'd thought I'd put this tidbit here to help others in the future.
When using a LIKE search in MySQL along with a prepared statement, the *value* must have the appropriate parentheses attached before the bindParam() statement as such:
<?php
$dbc = $GLOBALS['dbc'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `tbl_name` WHERE tbl_col LIKE ?";
$stmt = $dbc->prepare($sql);
$value = "%{$value}%";
$stmt->bindParam($i, $value, PDO::PARAM_STR);
?>
Trying to use
<?php
$stmt->bindParam($i, "%{$value}%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
?>
will fail.
