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Fuzzy Searching in PHP: Part 1
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For a while now I have been working on a developing a wiki application, both for personal projects and for use by clients. As part of this I needed to implement a search feature, allowing users to search the content on the wiki. At this point there were a few options open to me. All the content was stored in a MySQL database, so I could simply use a ‘LIKE’ statement against all the stored content, but there are several problems with this method:
Fuzzy Searching in PHP: Part 2
In part two we looked at how we spider our content and how that content can be stored in way which allows it to be searched. In part 2 I will show you how to actually perform searches on this indexed data.
