Question

I was just thinking that how could we group by or seperate similar words in PHP or MYSQL. For instance, like i have samsung Glaxy Ace, Is this possible to recognize S120, S-120, s120, S-120.

Is this even possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you could do is strip all non alphanumeric characters and spaces, and strtoupper() the string.

$new_string = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/", "", $string);
$new_string = strtoupper($new_string);