RE: [PHP-DB] anyone trickier than 'LIKE' ?

[N . A . Morgan]

$keywords = str_replace(' ','%',$keywords);
select * from table where data like "%keywords%";

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From: Hadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 12 December 2003 13:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DB] anyone trickier than 'LIKE' ?


Hi all,
I have this data (eg.) "..big fat buddy..." on the database . If
a person enter "big buddy" in the search form , the "...big fat
buddy." data will not be found . Any suggestion ? Thanks in advance.


select * from table where data like "%keywords%";

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Re: [PHP-DB] anyone trickier than 'LIKE' ?

[Larry E . Ullman]

I have this data (eg.) "..big fat buddy..." on the 
database . If
a person enter "big buddy" in the search form , the "...big fat
buddy." data will not be found . Any suggestion ?
select * from table where data like "%keywords%";
You can break up the search terms into words and do
...data LIKE '%$keyword[0]%' OR data LIKE '%$keyword[1]%'...
This will be slow though. You could also do full text searches if you 
are using MySQL. Have good indexes for whichever route you go.

Larry

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