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Posted by Harrie Verveer on 07/17/07 07:59
Hi Matthew,
you might want to look into soundex functions:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_soundex
Kind regards,
Harrie Verveer
Matthew White wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a website that is supposed to grab a French word, and return the
> English translation. The front-end has an AJAX script, that dynamically
> POST's the value to the backend:
>
> function post() {
> var string = document.getElementById("string").value;
> var poststr = "string=" + encodeURI( string );
> makePOSTRequest('dict.eng.php', poststr);
> }
>
> Then the backend takes the script, and queries a database for 30 words
> most like that word:
>
> $query = "SELECT * FROM dictionary WHERE fr like ('" . $string . "%')
> ORDER BY fr LIMIT 30";
> $query = mysql_query($query);
>
> If I enter in a word like "bonjour", the script returns the words that
> are most like bonjour. A word with a special character, like
> "français", will return no values, even though it is in the dictionary.
> The page is in UTF-8, and the database, tables, and fields are all
> utf8_bin. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
>
> Matt
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