MySQL doesn't let you use the calculated values (score) in the where clause. PostgreSQL does, as I recall. Sorry. You may be able to get around that with: Do a GROUP BY on something unique, so the GROUP BY is pointless, but then you can use HAVING score > 0 Use a sub-query in MySQL 4.mumble or higher, and the outer query can use 'score' to get rid of the 0-point non-matches Build up the expression for $score and $where at the same time like: $where = ' 0 '; $score = ' 0 '; $where .= " OR lastname = '$lastname'; $score .= " + 5 * (lastname = '$lastame' ) "; $where .= " OR firstname = '$firstname' "; $score .= " + 2 * (firstname = '$firstname' ) "; This gets tiresome to type, but is least confusing to non-programmers... On Thu, May 31, 2007 9:36 am, Afan Pasalic wrote: > > > Jared Farrish wrote: >> On 5/30/07, Afan Pasalic <afan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> email has to match "in total". sales@xxxxxxxxxxxx and >> info@xxxxxxxxxxxx >>> are NOT the same in my case. >>> >>> thanks jared, >> >> If you can match a person by their email, why not just SELECT by >> email >> only >> (and return the persons information)? > 'cause some members can be added to database by administrator and > maybe > they don't have email address at all. or several memebers can use the > same email address (sale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and then macthing last name > is > kind of "required". that's how it works now and can't change it. > >> Consider, as well, that each time you're calling a database, you're >> slowing >> down the response of the page. So, while making a bunch of small >> calls >> might >> not seem like that much, consider: >> >> ||||||| x ||||||| >> ||||||| a ||||||| >> ||||||| b ||||||| >> >> Versus >> >> ||||||| x, a, b ||||||| >> >> The letters represent the request/response data (what you're giving >> to >> get, >> then get back), and the pipes (|) are the overhead to process, send, >> receive >> (on DB), process (on DB), send (on DB), receive, process, return to >> code. >> >> The overhead and latency used to complete one request makes it a >> quicker, >> less "heavy" operation. If you did the first a couple hundred or >> thousand >> times, I would bet your page would drag to a halt while it loads... > agree. now, I have to figure it out HOW? :-) > > I was looking at levenshtein, though, I think the richard's solution > is > just enough: > > select member_id, first_name, last_name, email, ..., > (5*(first_name='$first_name) + 2*(first_name='$first_name')) as score > from members > where score > 0 > > though, I'm getting error: "Unknown column 'score' in where clause"?!? > > thanks jared. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
