my engine has a problem

[pentinat]

I have just made a nice PHP/MySQL engine but I want to limit the search no to alow search string lower than 3 characters, how should I play with the var $query to do so?

Thnk you guys

[reagent]

lets say you have the query:

'how do I play baseball?'

I am assuming you are breaking out each word and building a separate LIKE clause for each, but here's what I would do (untested)

$strQuery = 'how do I play baseball?'

$strQuery = preg_replace("/\S{1,3}/i", "", $strQuery);

then do explode() or split() on the delimiters (i.e. whitespace, etc..)

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[Anon]

I think hes a newbie and deserves an answer he will understand. I am a newbie and would also like to know how to do this for my site as well. Please explain at my level...

Thanks

[reagent]

Sounds to me like he just wrote a search engine, and my answer was not very complicated, just a regular expression. If you need an explanation about a part of my answer, just ask 🙂

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