On Fri, May 4, 2007 10:21, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I'm having trouble figuring out the logic/query I want.
> I know that all those "OR"s are not right.
> I'm doing this in PHP and mySQL (of course),
> so if it can't be done with a single query, I can split it up.
>
> Here's the challenge, given a text field search box, someone enters:
>
>       Sony 20" TV
>
> How do I search for that, not knowing which fields are which?
> For example, they could have also entered:
>
>       20" Sony TV
>

How about:

select soundex('Sony 20" TV' ),soundex('20" Sony TV');

'S531', 'S531'

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