MySQL/PHP Search Efficiency

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Published on 2010-06-01T23:21:45Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 23:33 UTC
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Hi! I'm trying to create a small search for my site. I've tried using full-text index search, but I could never get it to work. Here is what I've come up with:

if(isset($_GET['search'])) {

$search = str_replace('-', ' ', $_GET['search']);
$result = array();

$titles = mysql_query("SELECT title FROM Entries WHERE title LIKE '%$search%'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($titles)) {
    $result[] = $row['title'];
}

$tags = mysql_query("SELECT title FROM Entries WHERE tags LIKE '%$search%'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($tags)) {
    $result[] = $row['title'];
}

$text = mysql_query("SELECT title FROM Entries WHERE entry LIKE '%$search%'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($text)) {
    $result[] = $row['title'];
}

$result = array_unique($result);
}

So basically, it searches through all the titles, body-text, and tags of all the entries in the DB. This works decently well, but I'm just wondering how efficient would it be? This would only be for a small blog, too. Either way I'm just wondering if this could be made any more efficient.

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