Question

I need help in fulltext search in mysql.
I am looking for book named dreams. when i search for dreams i got

1. India in my dreams the greatest of all dreams vision
2. Dictionary of dreams – understanding dreams
3. Psyche on dreams & beyond dreams
4. Without dreams
5. Only dreams
6. Dreams
7. some other books

Actually i am looking for dreams
How to make 6th book to first one.

I want to ignore repeated words in this case dreams.

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I am facing these type of issues in different titles.

Answer 1

The relevance of columns with the search word repeated are the higest, The only solution I can see is to do a union query for exact matches with your standard full text search e.g:

SELECT * FROM books 
WHERE title = 'Dreams'
UNION
SELECT * FROM books
WHERE MATCH(title) AGAINST("Dreams")

this will show the exact match first.

or you could

SELECT * FROM books
WHERE MATCH(title) AGAINST("Dreams")
ORDER BY (CASE WHEN title = 'Dreams' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),.....