Array or SQL?

Hi, I've never had reason to get deeply into array functions, but now it is very likely needed. I'm working on a small search engine (to search text from articles) and I'm not sure wheter I will be able to complete it without any external help. Here is a snip of code: /* I'm using MySQL 3.23.37 together with 4.0.6 on a FreeBSD box */ $article_query = mysql_query("select article_name, article_text from articles where article_name LIKE '%$q%'") or die (mysql_error()); /* $q is the search query with a space added in front */ while ($results = mysql_fetch_array($article_query)) { $art_name = $results["article_name"]; $art_text = $results["article_text"]; $q_count = substr_count($art_text, "$q"); } </end_of_code> What I'd like to do is to get the results displayed and ORDERED by q_count - this number shows how many times the search query accoures in the article text. Now, this could probably be done in two ways: 1) redefining the SQL query to something like this: article_query = mysql_query("select article_name, article_text from articles where article_name LIKE '%$q%' ORDER BY $q ACCOURANCE IN ARTICLE_TEXT DESC") or die (mysql_error()); What I am not sure of is how to write the 'ORDER BY $q ACCOURANCE IN ARTICLE_TEXT DESC' part. 2) building a two-dimensional array (one dimension is the $art_name and $art_text, another the $q_count), sort it by $q_count and then display the members of this array. I feel very uncomfortable both with array's and complicated SQL queries, therefore I wonder if somebody could show me the way? The solution letting MySQL to do the job is probably faster and therefore prefered... I guess. Or not? TIA, Kristjan P.S. Pls. CC me as well, I am only on the digest.