Dotan Cohen wrote:
If I have to perform 30 LIKE searches for different keywords in a
varchar field, which strategy would be recommended:
1) 30 searches, one for each keyword

No. Horribly inefficient.

2) To select the varchar field from all the rows, and search through
them with php's array functions?

No. Make the database do the work.

Use full text indexing:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/fulltext-search.html

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