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Asked: 2026-05-26T12:02:05+00:00

Is there a PHP library (or maybe a snippet) which would cover the following

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Is there a PHP library (or maybe a snippet) which would cover the following search functionality?

  • “an exact phrase”
  • all these words
  • this OR that
  • this but -not -these

I have an array, which arrives from MySQL database, and would like to filter the items based on a query, which has one or more rules I’ve specified above. For example, the query may look like this: word1 "word2 word3" -word4. This query would return all items containing word1 and word2 word3 (phrase) in any order, but not word4.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do this with plain MySQL.

    The functions have everything you need.
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-search.html

    Boolean :
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-boolean.html

    Example for a perfect match you use the LIKE keyword and %.

    SELECT * FROM `messages` WHERE `body` LIKE "%confused about%"
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