Working with the LIKE Operator in PDO in PHP

To use the LIKE operator in a prepared query, you need to specify the value for its variable using a special syntax:

php<?php
  $var = '%value%';
?>

Let's find a user by name, using the LIKE operator:

php<?php
  $name = '%user1%';
  
  $res = $pdo->prepare('SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE ?');
  $res->execute([$name]);
  $row = $res->fetchAll();
  var_dump($row);
?>