Is it possible to do a match against a query with two tables using a join? The tricky part might be the index on the table but maybe there is a way.. sql is not my strong suit. Many thanks. I imagine it might be something like the following:
SELECT * FROM 'pages' p
LEFT JOIN `tags` t
ON p.id = u.pageid
WHERE MATCH(p.shdescript,t.tag) AGAINST ('romance, relationship')
Many thanks
It's possible, but you need to have text indexes.
mysql> alter table pages add fulltext index_text(shdescript);
mysql> alter table tags add fulltext index_text(tag);
SELECT * FROM 'pages' p
LEFT JOIN `tags` t
ON p.id = u.pageid
WHERE MATCH(p.shdescript,t.tag) AGAINST ('romance relationship')
I guess that's enough to work.
EDIT:
As of MySQL 5.6 the above fulltext search can be done on the MyISAM & InnoDB storage engines. On earlier MySQL versions only MyISAM tables supported fulltext indexes.