Hello all,

I'm looking for the sort of programming inspiration I suspect I won't find in manuals 
- I have checked the web first!

When saving records to a table I generally do a fairly standard check to ensure that 
there is not already a record of the same name.  I even put a big warning message on 
the page asking users to check to ensure that a record of a particular name doesn't 
already exist before they create a new record.  But this hasn't stopped entries such 
as the following:

Record x: "The Prince's Trust"
Record y: "The Princes Trust"
Record z: "the Prince's Trust"

Two of these were entered as consecutive records by the same person!

I know I won't be able to make any application entirely foolproof but are there any 
steps I could use within the combination of MySQL and PHP that might minimize such 
duplication?

Thanks in advance,

Michael Egan

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