Have you considered creating a full text index on that field? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CREATE_INDEX.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Search.html
Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine "Chris W. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/08/2004 04:11:07 PM: > Dan Venturini <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Friday, October 08, 2004 11:51 AM said: > > > Now If I do a search for "cleaning mouse" I get 0 results. If I do > > "cleaning computer' I get 0 results. But If I do mouse cleaning, > > mouse, cleaning your,I get the articles. > > [snip] > > > My question is am I doing something wrong here? Do you have anytips on > > making a smart search work? This is the only way I was taught where > > you match the user input to something in the database. > > well i think the principal is that you need to search for each word > individually, grouping them with AND. i had the same question but never > got around to working on it so i did a little investigation but came up > dry (so far). > > i thought an easy way to do it would be to use the IN() function: > > SELECT name > FROM products > WHERE name IN ('cleaning', 'computer') > > but this doesn't work as it's looking for a name with exactly 'cleaning' > or exactly 'computer'. so i tried adding LIKE before the IN, but that's > just plain invalid. then i tried wrapping each item with % but although > it doesn't throw an error, that doesn't work either. > > the only other thing i can think of (not that a better answer is not out > there of course) is to create a statement like the following: > > SELECT name > FROM products > WHERE name LIKE '%cleaning%' > AND name LIKE '%computer%' > > > report back to the list if you find out anything else, or if anyone > would like to chime in and answer this. > > > > chris. > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
