Search by Relevance: Sort arrays or MySQL searches by relevance

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`search-by-relevance` 1.0		Free for non-comm...		3.0		Databases, Searching, Data types

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Carlson A. Soares

This class can be used to sort arrays or MySQL searches by relevance.

It can search for a string in an array of a MySQL query result.

The class returns an array of search result entries that is sorted by a criteria of relevance implemented within the class.

A number representing the relevance is returned within the sorted search results.

Innovation Award

December 2010
Number 3

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Sometimes it is necessary to determine which entries in search results are more relevant to the original search terms.

This class provides an effective solution to sort an array of results according to which results contain text more similar to the original search terms.

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Carlson A. Soares

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File	Role	Description
`est_cid.sql`	Data	Sql file with the database used in the teste.php
`search.php`	Class	Class to search in array
`search_mysql.php`	Class	class to search in mysql resultset
`teste.php`	Example	Script of exemple showing the class function