RE: [PHP-DB] Decent Search Engine (for MySQL)

Shall I resign myself to using a search with "like %var%"? Are there no other better methods? Maybe REGEXP has something to offer? -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Amm Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2003 4:00 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Decent Search Engine (for MySQL) Hi All, I'm after a tutorial, if you can point me to one I'd appreciate it. I want to create a search script that will look through tables/fields (that I specify) in a MySQL database. I don't want to use the MySQL full text searching (as I'm using an ISP database & the default min word length is >3, we have a number of words that are 3 chars & need them to be picked up in the search) & I really hope there are better options than the "LIKE" command (These seem to be very popular from my searching). Regards, Gavin -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php