> Doing a search engine and want to allow users to enter multiple strings > each strings bounded by quotes to search on the occurrence of those > strings in the target db. So, like tokanizing functions do their > tokanizing thing on characters like space or whatever based only on one > character, it would be handy to tokanize strings defined by enclosing > quotes. > > So, if somebody searched on "quick brown fox" and "wild dogs", the two > strings could be placed in array cells (tokens?) and used in a search. > I've been looking at POSIX regular functions, but most recently read > that native PHP functions would execute faster. Question is, I guess, > is there a tokanizing PHP function that will break out strings defined > by enclosing quotes?
You should examine fulltext searches on MySQL 4.1. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/fulltext-search.html James _____ James D. Keeline http://www.Keeline.com http://www.Keeline.com/articles http://Stratemeyer.org http://www.Keeline.com/TSCollection http://www.ITeachPHP.com -- Free Computer Classes: Linux, PHP, etc. Spring Semester Begins Jan 31 -- New Classes Start Every Few Weeks. Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
