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How to Identify Duplicate and Similar Text
It's not a common problem but sometimes you have to check if 2 texts are similar. If you have to aggregate data from multiple sources you might know what I'm talking about.

Yahoo BOSS Custom Search
This free tutorial shows PHP developers how to take advantage of Yahoo's search technology to build a quick, effective custom search solution.

PHP Search
Learn how to create a site search using php.

Search IMDB script
This script is to search for movie in.

Foul language filter in PHP
You will learn how to create a simple PHP foul language filter function which uses a file containing foul words to replace them in the string of your choice with asterisks.

Related Topics
This tutorial completes our outline of the online winestore. We present here the completed searching and browsing module, and two related topics in web database applications.

PHP/MySQL search engine script
This tutorial will show you how to create PHP/MySQL search engine with search keywords displayed in bold.

Building a fulltext search engine with PHP
In this article I will show you how you can use the database library from eZ publish to build database independent fulltext search engine. I will show you a relatively simple algorithm to get search result ranking and stop words. You will get the full source code for a complete working program to get you started.

Using PHP to search a MySQL database and return paged results
PHP, MySQL and a Web Server capable of parsing PHP pages, like Apache or IIS. This search script does not spider all your pages by crawling the links, so the content you want to be searchable must be within the database. Knowledge of PHP and MySQL is also necessary because this script is just the bones of a working solution.