I have an array of words.
$terms = array('bars', 'bar', 'fun');
I am trying to find all records that contain each word.
TableName::model()->findAll('name LIKE :name, array(':name'=>implode(',', $terms)));
Not sure the right way to find all within the array.
Manquer's answer is correct for your specific situation. However, due to the implementation of compare (read the source Luke) it will not work for partial searches i.e LIKE '%ADF%'. For this you can loop through the array and add each element using compare:
$c1=new CDbCriteria;
foreach($terms as $txt){
$c1->compare('name',$txt,true,'OR');
}
TableName::model()->findAll($c1);
However should you run into a scenario where you need to add another condition for another group the results may not be as expected due to the way compare creates the query i.e you may end up with
WHERE ((((type=1) OR (name LIKE '%ABC%')) OR (name LIKE '%RET%')) OR (name LIKE '%Anything else%'))
To avoid this you have a couple of options:
Create another criteria object specifically for your array values and merge this into the other object using CDbCriteria::merge():
$c1=new CDbCriteria; // original criteria
$c2=new CDbCriteria; // criteria for handling our search values
foreach($terms as $txt){
$c2->compare('name',$txt,true,'OR');
}
$c1->mergeWith($c2); // Merge $c2 into $c1
Create another criteria object specifically for your array values and manually add this condition into the other object using CDbCriteria::addCondition():
$c1=new CDbCriteria; // original criteria
$c2=new CDbCriteria; // criteria for handling our search values
foreach($terms as $txt){
$c2->compare('name',$txt,true,'OR');
}
$c1->addCondition($c->condition); // Merge $c2 into $c1
$c1->params+=$c2->params; // Add the params for $c2 into $c1
Use (2).
You can use CDbCriteria class for this sort of Query in findAll like this
$terms = array('bars', 'bar', 'fun');
$criteria = new CDbCriteria
$criteria->compare('name',$terms,true,"AND",true);
TableName::model()->findAll($criteria);
see compare documentation for details
compare is partialMatch.