我正在做类似的事情。

获取小写的值，MySQL完成其余的工作

    $string = $_GET['string'];
    mysqli_query($con,"SELECT *
                       FROM table_name
                       WHERE LOWER(column_name)
                       LIKE LOWER('%$string%')");

和MySQL PDO替代方案:

        $string = $_GET['string'];
        $q = "SELECT *
              FROM table_name
              WHERE LOWER(column_name)
              LIKE LOWER(?);";
        $query = $dbConnection->prepare($q);
        $query->bindValue(1, "%$string%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $query->execute();

SELECT name 
       FROM gallery 
       WHERE CONVERT(name USING utf8) LIKE _utf8 '%$q%' 
       GROUP BY name COLLATE utf8_general_ci LIMIT 5 

您不需要更改任何表。只需使用以下查询，在实际的SELECT查询之前，你想使用通配符:

    set names `utf8`;
    SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=utf8_general_ci;
    SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=utf8;
    SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=utf8;

简单地使用:

"SELECT * FROM `trees` WHERE LOWER(trees.`title`) LIKE  '%elm%'";

或使用

"SELECT * FROM `trees` WHERE LCASE(trees.`title`) LIKE  '%elm%'";

两个函数的工作原理是一样的

我总是用lower来解决这个问题:

SELECT * FROM trees WHERE LOWER( trees.title ) LIKE  '%elm%'

非二进制字符串比较(包括LIKE)在MySql中默认是不区分大小写的: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/case-sensitivity.html