[BNM] Suggest in search - way of doing with MySQL?

Paul Silver paul at tenpastmidnight.com
Thu Oct 2 16:21:49 BST 2008


Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll give Levenshtein and the PHP
version of Lucene a look

Thanks!

Paul

> > 2008/10/2 Paul Silver <paul at tenpastmidnight.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm making a search within a database driven site soon. We'd like to be
> >> able to suggest corrections or just show results for the suggestions if
> >> nothing is returned from a straight search.
> >>
> >> E.g. visitor searches for "bananas in pijamas"
> >>
> >> Results say: "No results for 'bananas in pijamas', would you like to
> >> search for 'banans in pyjamas'"
> >>
> >> Is there an easy way of doing this with PHP 5 & MySQL 5?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Paul
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