is there a way for me to search a MySQL database with PHP and output results ignoring non alphanumeric charictors e.g. if I search for 1234 I can have 1-234 12(34 123:4 all returned? TIA Travis Harris
look into regular expressions.
I understand once I have the info out I could parse each individual string, but there are hundreds of thousands of rows, there is no way this could be efficiant... I need a way to search for it in the table in that manner. how can this be done?
