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

[Steve Esson]

I had a look at Yahoo's boss when I was last asked to do this.

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/Spelling_Suggest.html

It provides a spelling suggestion web service - free up to 5000
requests a day.   I didn't go any further than a proof of concept as
the project was a no-goer but I recall it does exactly what your
example requires.

HTH
Steve



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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