I need to search about twenty columns for given a string with wildcards. The query essentially looks like this: SELECT * FROM `the_table` WHERE `field1` LIKE 'string%' OR `field2` LIKE 'string ...

If it matters, I'm using PHP, but I'm pretty sure I just need help with the actual MySQL query.I'm going to be building a table in MySQL with user information. What I'd like to do is select 50 ...