Question

I have this script:

$db = mysql_connect($hostname, $db_user, $db_password);
mysql_select_db($database,$db) or die( "Unable to select database");
mysql_query("set names 'utf8'");

$wordy = "pate";

$query = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM $db_table WHERE word LIKE '[pate]' ORDER BY word DESC");
$num = mysql_numrows($query); $i=0; 

while ($i < $num) {
    $word = mysql_result($query,$i,"word");

    echo $word." ";
    $i++;
}

$db_table contains English words. I want to echo out all possible anagrams; in this case it should echo tape pate peat. What query could I use to do this?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179859.aspx <- here is a description

Answer 1

I think first you must re arrange all the letters in the word to form an array

then do a sql query like :

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM $db_table WHERE word in ($array ) ORDER BY word DESC

got another idea :

you can do something like …

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM $db_table WHERE word like '%$wordy[0]%' AND like '%$wordy[1]%' AND like '%$wordy[2]%' AND like '%$wordy[4]%' ORDER BY word DESC

Froe the comments I could suggest you use

length(word) = strlen($wordy)