You could check out the FULLTEXT searching in MySQL, too. It's in the
manual. It has some quirks, but works well on a large database.
---John Holmes...
-Original Message-
From: Cal Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:04 AM
To: Meltem Demirkus; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] search question
it depends on how you design your database. When I know I will have
this
situation, I design a table named keyWords. Put one work per record
and
assign each word an ID number. Then I create a join table between
keyWords
and whatever table they relate to. The join table only contains 2
fields,
the pk from keyWords and the pk from the other table. Then I ad 1
record
to
the join table for each keyword that relates to each record in the
other
table.
It's simple then to join the 3 tables in such a manner as to quickly
find
the records in the other table that relate to a specific key word.
HTH,
=C=
*
* Cal Evans
* The Virtual CIO
* http://www.calevans.com
*
-Original Message-
From: Meltem Demirkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DB] search question
Hi,
Is there any other efficient way (--except using LIKE)of searching a
keyword
in mysql ...
thanks
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