Compare Partial String

[timstring]

I am trying to write a rudimentary search engine. I want to see if one string matches part of another. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

If ("pancake" is a part of "Best pancakes in the world")
{
do this
}

else
{
do the other
}

[bradgrafelman]

timstring;11018821 wrote:

I am trying to write a rudimentary search engine.

And where is the data that you'll be searching? This sounds more like a job for a SQL database than PHP.

[timstring]

It's searching inside a MySQL database

[bradgrafelman]

So why not let MySQL handle the searching? For example: Full-Text Search Functions or LIKE.

[timstring]

Because I'm just now wading into the ocean of SQL. The 'like' statement did the trick