php + sql search
Thomas Hurst
tom.hurst at clara.net
Fri Nov 1 13:06:56 GMT 2002
* Paul Civati (paul at xciv.org) wrote:
> I'm not an SQL/db expert, but I believe if you want to be able to do
> free text search (I think is the right term?) then you would have to
> use some non-standard database add-on. Oracle has context (v8) and
> intermedia (v9) for more complex searching functionality AIUI.
MySQL has bundled full text searching:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Search.html
With boolean matching (+word -otherword) in version 4.
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