PHP bias

I am bothers me. It bothers me that that the MySQL people have a bias towards PHP. PHP is an inferior language. Deal with perl instead. Robert - Before posting, please check:

Exact word search

Hello y'all, I guess this is easy, but it is defeating me. I am having a problem with this query: $keyword = search; SELECT * FROM table WHERE field LIKE '%$keyword%' The problem is I don't want sear or earch but exactly search. What am I missing? .. Regards, Robert (Newbie)