> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How do I find products when a user types freeform
> strings like 'Sony 20" TV' or '20" Sony TV'?
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out the logic/query I want.
> I know that all those "OR"s are not right.
> I'm doing this in PHP and mySQL (of course),
> so if it can't be done with a single query, I can split it up.
>
> Here's the challenge, given a text field search box, someone enters:
>
> Sony 20" TV
>
> How do I search for that, not knowing which fields are which?
> For example, they could have also entered:
>
> 20" Sony TV
>
> This is the one I have now, but (as you probably noticed), it
> will return many rows,
> I expect that most of the time > 1 row will be returned, but
> I'm getting a grip more than I want (or the customer would want), and
> also rows that have nothing to do with the search terms.
>
> SELECT products.*, companies.name AS company_name,
> categories.name AS category_name
> FROM products
> LEFT JOIN companies ON company_id = companies.id
> LEFT JOIN categories ON category_id = categories.id
> WHERE products.enabled = 1
> AND(
> (products.model LIKE 'sony%' OR products.model
> LIKE '20%' OR products.model LIKE 'tv%')
> OR (products.upc LIKE 'sony' OR products.upc LIKE
> '20' OR products.upc LIKE 'tv')
> OR (products.name LIKE '%sony%' OR products.name
> LIKE '20%' OR products.name LIKE '%tv%')
> OR (companies.name LIKE 'sony%' OR companies.name
> LIKE '20%' OR companies.name LIKE 'tv%')
> OR (categories.name LIKE '%sony%' OR categories.name
> LIKE '20%' OR categories.name LIKE '%tv%')
> )
> ORDER BY categories.name DESC, products.name ASC, companies.name ASC;
>
> (and that just gets uglier the more words in the search)
>
> +----+------------------+--------------+--------------+-------
> --------+
> | id | name | model | company_name |
> category_name |
> +----+------------------+--------------+--------------+-------
> --------+
> | 1 | 20" TV | STV20-KVR-HD | Sony | Tube
> | <---
> | 2 | 36" TV | STV36-KVR-HD | Sony | Tube
> |
> | 4 | Ultra-Plasma 62" | UP62F900 | Sony |
> Plasma |
> | 5 | Value Plasma 38" | VPR542_38 | Sony |
> Plasma |
> | 6 | Power-MP3 5gb | 09834wuw34 | Sony | MP3
> Players |
> | 3 | Super-LCD 42" | SLCD42hd002 | Sony | LCD
> |
> | 7 | Super-Player 1gb | SP1gb | Sony | Flash
> |
> | 8 | Porta CD | pcd500 | Sony | CD
> Players |
> ......
> +----+------------------+--------------+--------------+-------
> --------+
>
> Obviously the person wanted id = 1 in this case.
>
> Unrelated, is there any speed improvement using JOIN instead
> of LEFT JOIN ?
> Think millions of products.
>
> Thanks for help and suggestions...
>
> Daevid.
I'll attach a .php file, but this list server may strip it off, so I'll also
paste it below, sorry for any formatting issues in
advance...
<?php
if ($_POST['keywords'])
{
$_POST['keywords'] = stripslashes($_POST['keywords']);
$words = preg_split("/\s+/",$_POST['keywords'], -1,
PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
}
$sql = 'SELECT products.* FROM product_table WHERE 1 ';
$sql .= keyword_filter($words, array('products.model%', 'products.upc',
'%products.name%', 'companies.name%', '%categories.name%'),
true);
$sth = SQL_QUERY($sql);
/**
* Builds the WHERE portion of a SQL statement using the keywords in various
columns with wildcard support.
*
* @return string SQL statement fragment
* @param mixed $words either a string of words space deliminated or an
array of words
* @param array $columns an array of table.column names to search the
$words in. Use % as a wildcard for example pass in
'username%' or '%username%'.
* @param boolean $and (true) whether the words have to be ANDed or ORed
together.
* @author Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* @since 1.0
* @version 1.4
* @date 05/10/07
* @todo This should handle +, - and "" just like google or yahoo or
other search engines do.
*/
function keyword_filter($words, $columns, $and = true)
{
// this maybe useful
//
http://wiki.ittoolbox.com/index.php/Code:Translate_Boolean_Query_to_SQL_select_statement
// http://www.ibiblio.org/adriane/queries/
//
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-ferrara1.php?article=tutorial-ferrara1&kind=t&id=8238&open=1&anc=0&view=1
//
http://evolt.org/article/Boolean_Fulltext_Searching_with_PHP_and_MySQL/18/15665/index.html
// http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3512461
// this would be great, but the dumb-asses don't work with InnoDB
tables. GRRR!
// http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-boolean.html
//$sql .= " AND MATCH (".implode(',',$columns).") AGAINST ('".implode('
',$words)."' IN BOOLEAN MODE)";
if (!is_array($columns) or !$words) return;
if (is_string($words))
$words = preg_split("/\s+/",$words, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
if(count($words) < 1) return '';
if ($and) //AND the words together
{
$sql = " AND ";
$sqlArray = array();
foreach($words as $word)
{
$tmp = array();
foreach($columns as $field)
{
$col = str_replace('%','',$field);
//[dv] read the http://php.net/preg_replace
carefully. You must use this format,
// because otherwise $words that are
digits will cause undesired results.
$myword = preg_replace("/(%)?([\w\.]+)(%)?/",
"\${1}".$word."\${3}", $field );
$tmp[] = $col." LIKE '".SQL_ESCAPE($myword)."'";
}
$sqlArray[] = " (".implode(" OR ",$tmp).") ";
}
$sql .= implode(" AND ", $sqlArray);
}
else //OR the words together
{
$sql = " AND ( ";
$sqlArray = array();
foreach($columns as $field)
{
$col = str_replace('%','',$field);
$tmp = array();
foreach($words as $word)
{
//[dv] read the http://php.net/preg_replace
carefully. You must use this format,
// because otherwise $words that are
digits will cause undesired results.
$myword = preg_replace("/(%)?([\w\.]+)(%)?/",
"\${1}".$word."\${3}", $field );
$tmp[] = $col." LIKE '".SQL_ESCAPE($myword)."'";
}
$sqlArray[] = "(".implode(" OR ",$tmp).") ";
}
$sql .= implode(" OR ", $sqlArray);
$sql .= ") ";
}
return $sql;
}
?>
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