"Ashley Sheridan" <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message news:1275652880.2217.54.ca...@localhost... > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 14:54 +0300, Tanel Tammik wrote: > >> "Ashley Sheridan" <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:1275652342.2217.51.ca...@localhost... >> > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 14:44 +0300, Tanel Tammik wrote: >> > >> >> "Ashley Sheridan" <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message >> >> news:1275651371.2217.46.ca...@localhost... >> >> > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 14:12 +0300, Tanel Tammik wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> >> >> if there is some webpage content with html tags in database is it >> >> >> possible >> >> >> to search it without tags? >> >> >> >> >> >> data : '<div style="">you need some styling!</div>' >> >> >> >> >> >> when i now search for 'you style' i don't want to get any rows! is >> >> >> it >> >> >> possible? >> >> >> when i search 'you styling' i get the row! >> >> >> >> >> >> Br >> >> >> Tanel >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Use a second field in the DB that stores the content without any >> >> > HTML >> >> > tags. That way, you can search and not worry about tags and >> >> > attribute >> >> > values getting in the way. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Ash >> >> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> Is this the only way? Couldn't i do it in mysql query? Seems much >> >> cleaner... >> >> >> >> Br, >> >> Tanel >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > You could try and do it in MySQL with a regex to filter out the HTML >> > tags. The regex would be real complex though, and prone to failure if >> > the HTML wasn't perfectly formed. And it would be a *lot* slower than >> > searching a plain text field. I think it's far cleaner to use a second >> > field like that. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Ash >> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >> > >> > >> > >> OK! then i should use preg_replace before making the serch entry for DB >> storage? What would be the regular expression for that? Basically i need >> to >> get rid everything between the html tags with tags included? >> >> Br >> Tanel >> >> >> > > > No, you'd have to use a regex within MySQL, not PHP. Like I said, it > would be very complex, and I wouldn't know where to begin writing a > query that would search for specific strings and ignore any content > within the < & > without writing sub-queries. > > Also, you did see that I said it would be a lot slower didn't you? > Imagine at the moment a query is taking a second to complete. With this > sort of complex regex it could take maybe 5 seconds. That's 5 seconds > per person searching. > > Are you not able to make a second field in the DB? > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > >
Yes i can. You misunderestood me or i didn't express myself correctly. how can i get rid of the tags before entering the data into the second field created for search engine? Br Tanel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
