> I'd like users to be able to enter the first 
> few characters of a contact's name to do a search, and I'd 
> like the option of doing inexact matches or phonetic matches.

MySQL does have the SOUNDEX function; see the docs for details...

  SELECT * FROM people WHERE SOUNDEX(lastname) = SOUNDEX('Smith');

I'm sure others can suggest optimizations...

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