SearchFilter Modifiers#

The filter and exclude operations specify exact matches by default. However, there are a number of suffixes that you can put on field names to change this behavior. These are represented as SearchFilter subclasses and include.

• StartsWithFilter
• EndsWithFilter
• PartialMatchFilter
• GreaterThanFilter
• GreaterThanOrEqualFilter
• LessThanFilter
• LessThanOrEqualFilter

An example of a SearchFilter in use:

	// fetch any player that starts with a S
	$players = Player::get()->filter(array(
		'FirstName:StartsWith' => 'S',
		'PlayerNumber:GreaterThan' => '10'
	));

	// to fetch any player that's name contains the letter 'z'
	$players = Player::get()->filterAny(array(
		'FirstName:PartialMatch' => 'z',
		'LastName:PartialMatch' => 'z'
	));

These suffixes can also take modifiers themselves. The modifiers currently supported are ":not", ":nocase" and ":case". These negate the filter, make it case-insensitive and make it case-sensitive, respectively. The default comparison uses the database's default. For MySQL and MSSQL, this is case-insensitive. For PostgreSQL, this is case-sensitive.

The following is a query which will return everyone whose first name starts with "S", either lowercase or uppercase:

	$players = Player::get()->filter(array(
		'FirstName:StartsWith:nocase' => 'S'
	));

	// use :not to perform a converse operation to filter anything but a 'W'
	$players = Player::get()->filter(array(
		'FirstName:StartsWith:not' => 'W'
	));

• SearchFilter