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I have a php/mysql directory. If someone searches a company name like “Johnson & Johnson” and it’s it the DB as “Johnson and Johnson” it doesn’t match.
I’m doing a NAME LIKE ‘% var %’ kind of search currently. Is there an easy way to get this to work? I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of setting up the table as INNODB with full text on the column or if there’s more involved.
Thanks,
Don
Yeah, you need a more sophisticated search capable of tokenising the search terms and searching through a tokenised index. You could probably get some of the way there with a full text search in the InnoDB table engine, but you could also look at other options. Some that you could consider:
All of these are more sophisticated full text indexers and searchers than you will get built into a database engine, but will require more work to get set up and going than a mysql full text search too, so it depends on the features you need.