wildcard in switch/case?

[jaykup]

$search = "somethi";

switch ($search)  {
case "somethi*" in "something":
echo "you found something, which is close to your entered search of somethi";
break;
}

 

How can I do something like that?

[nrg_alpha]

I suspect you are trying to build a search engine? If so, why not simply do a Google search on 'PHP search engines' and see what comes up?

 

Cheers,

 

NRG

[jaykup]

I've already got a "search engine" for mySQL using "like" and "%", which works great.  But sometimes it does not return a result.

 

I would like to have a small case block for some major ones (mis-spellings) and re-do the search with a new value.

 

The above code is confusing, I'll try to make it better.

 

user enters a search - "bananna" which will go to "$search"

switch ($search)  {
   case "bana*":
      echo "You were trying to seach for 'banana', but typed in 'bananna' so I'll run my query with 'banana'";
      $query = mysql_query("SELECT banana FROM fruits");
   break;
}

 

I've tried that but PHP sees a literal "*"

[DamienRoche]

Have you tried

 

case "/bana(.*?)/"

 

Hope that helps.

[ibechane]

Have you tried

 

case "/bana(.*?)/"

 

Hope that helps.

I don't think you can do it that way.  You have to tell PHP that "/bana(.*?)/" is a regular expression.  Otherwise, it will assume that it's like any other normal string match the string literally.

 

Try this:

<?php

$search_results = 'banama';

switch(true) {
   case preg_match('/^bana.*/i',$search_results):
      $search_results = 'banana';
      break;
}

?>

[corbin]

Uh in that case, why not just do an if?