title: Using like statement with $wpdb->prepare showing hashes where wildcard characters are
body: <p>I'm trying to build a prepared statement with wildcards however I'm running into an issue where the percentage wildcard characters seem to be returning what seem to be hashes for the wildcards and I'm not sure why. The code in question is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$condition = $wpdb-&gt;prefix."posts.post_title LIKE %%%s%%";
  $query['conditions'][] = $wpdb-&gt;prepare($condition, $name);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the results are:</p>
  
  <pre><code>posts.post_title LIKE {d690dd63f5944b9bca120e110c22802f0ec841d8120d813dd4abc08cba4a59c0}BT{d690dd63f5944b9bca120e110c22802f0ec841d8120d813dd4abc08cba4a59c0}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Just wondered if anyone had any ideas on what could be causing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>