Lee, why not? That is what ft-search is meant for.
Regards, Thomas Spahni On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, leegold wrote: > I asked a ques, in a previous post but maybe I should simplify the > question. Am I totallly crazy to use FullText for specific keyword > searchs? Let's say I have a text data type field and I load it with > keywords (text after all), the couldn't I just use a Fulltext index on > that field then search for specific keywords? I'd have the boolean mode > with a minimum of coding. > > If not, well, I haven't found tutorials that lay it out how to code for > "and, or, phrase, not" searches without Fulltext. I assume it'd be some > more SQL to do that. I'm not too handy with set theory at the moment - > it seems the fulltext pust me on the road to having a nice keyword > search w/bells and whistles w/min. of hassel even though I'm not using > it for it's heralded intended purpose. > > Thanks, > Lee G. > Wash DC > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
