What is full text search?
Full text search is searching method that will use the entire words and find all match search against our database.
And according to Wikipedia
In text retrieval, full text search refers to a technique for searching a computer-stored document or database. In a full text search, the search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search words supplied by the user
In our traditional search method mostly we only search our criteria for against 1 column in our table.
Let’s say we have 1 million data about books, and we have title, author, and summary.
And now, we’re trying to create simple search against them. If I want to search book with title ‘PHP and MySQL Web Development’

We fill the form and click search button, and ta da, we got the result. But wait … Continue reading »
March 3rd, 2009 |
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