Search query not working

PHP
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I have created a php function thats meant to return a sql query which I can use to perform a simple search from mysql and show results to the end user

When I submit the form using the function I get this error: Warning: mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean

FORM PHP

$dbc=mysqli_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PW,DB_NAME);
$user_search=$_GET[‘searching’];
$query=build_query($user_search);
$result=mysqli_query($dbc,$query);
//loop through the results
while ($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo ‘<table><tr><td>’.$row[‘deal_name’].‘</tr></td></table>’;
}

PHP FUNCTION

function build_query($user_search) {

	$search_query= "SELECT * FROM deals";
	
	//get the search keywords
	$clean_search=str_replace(',',' ',$user_search);
	$search_words=explode(' ',$clean_search);
	$final_search_words=array();
		if(count($search_words&gt;0)){
			foreach($search_words as $word) {
				if(!empty($word)){
					$final_search_words[]=$words;
				}
			}
		}
	//generate a where clause with the search terms above
	$where_list=array();
	if(count($final_search_words)&gt;0){
		foreach($final_search_words as $word) {
			$where_list[] ="deal_name LIKE'%$word%'";
		}
	}	
	$where_clause=implode('OR',$where_list);
	
	//add keyword WHERE clause to the search query
	if (!empty($where_clause)){
		$search_query.="WHERE $where_clause";
	}
	return $search_query;
}
2

echo $search_query before executing it

i think you omitted the space between the table name and the WHERE keyword