Trimming unneeded text for better search

[Anon]

I want to build a knowledge base and let my users search by using full questions. Example: What is the best something for something?

I want to be able to ommit common words such as what, is, the, best, and many other such as end, to from, who, etc.

Is there a built-in function to help me do that?

or do I have to search the phrase manually and eliminate words.

Has anybody done something like this before?

Thanks

[[deleted]]

You can put the 'noisewords' into an array,
the convert the string into an array and then use array_diff() to get the 'difference' between the array; the words that are in the first aray and not in the second.

[Anon]

Dont forget askjeeves is patented😉

[[deleted]]

lol

[Anon]

Thanks guys, I'm experimenting with array_diff and it is working great for what I need!!!

Alonso