很高兴看到您决定使用 PDO!
//using MySQL
//refer here for reference http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=xxx;port=xxx;dbname=xxx', $username, $password)
//write query
$sql = "SELECT * FROM search WHERE `name2` LIKE '?' AND `approved`='approved'";
//tell query what to replace ? marks with
$fill_array = array($name); // one item in array for the one ? in $sql above
//send query to DB for preparation
$prepare = $pdo->prepare($sql);
//send variables to DB, DB will bind them to the proper place and execute query
$prepare->execute($fill_array);
//get your array. I personally recommend PDO::FETCH_ASSOC but you are using ARRAY
$result = $prepare->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ARRAY);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($result, true).'</pre>';
瞧!
请注意,您必须编写代码来转义 $name 并检查诸如 % 符号和下划线之类的内容,因为如果有人按字面输入 %,则 LIKE 语句将返回所有已批准='已批准'的记录