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    <p>I am having a product table with following schema:</p> <p><code>products (itemname VARCHAR(50), itemid INT(10));</code></p> <p>Sample records are shown below (<code>itemname</code>, <code>itemid</code>):</p> <ul> <li><strong>blackberry curve 3g (black), 1</strong></li> <li><strong>samsung ace, 3</strong></li> <li><strong>blackberry curve 3g (white), 2</strong></li> <li><strong>apple iphone 4 32gb (black), 4</strong></li> </ul> <p>Now suppose user enters the query into the search box of the website and accordingly results are displayed. i.e. if user enters <code>blackberry</code> then Blackberry mobiles should be displayed</p> <p>I am looking answers for the following questions:</p> <ol> <li>How can search text be matched with the items? For example: user may enter <code>blackberry</code> in the search box then how it can be searched? Should I search for <code>blackberry</code> word as a sub-string of <code>itemname</code> column of the above table?</li> <li>If the user enters two words like: <code>apple 32gb</code>. Now if I use the above mentioned method of sub-string then it wont work because there is no row in the table having <code>apple 32gb</code> as sub-string. How to search in this case?</li> <li>If the user enters a very generic search text like: <code>mobiles</code>. In this case, all the mobile phones should be displayed. Matching the <code>itemname</code> as a sub-string will not work in this case also.</li> <li>User may enter search text: <code>apple 32gb black color</code>. In this case, apple products of 32GB capacity and black color should be displayed. </li> </ol> <p>I know that implementing the search 100% correct is not possible. I am just looking for hints/how to proceed. I am using PHP, MySQL, Apache. </p>
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