Any way to achieve fulltext-like search on InnoDB

Question

I have a very simple query:

SELECT ... WHERE row LIKE \'%some%\' OR row LIKE \'%search%\' OR  row LIKE \'%string%\'

to search for som

Answer 1

Using PHP to construct the query. This is an horrible hack. Once seen, it can't be unseen...

$words=dict($userQuery);
$numwords = sizeof($words);
$innerquery="";
for($i=0;$i<$numwords;$i++) {
    $words[$i] = mysql_real_escape_string($words[$i]);
    if($i>0) $innerquery .= " AND ";
    $innerquery .= "
        (
            field1 LIKE \"%$words[$i]%\" OR
            field2 LIKE \"%$words[$i]%\" OR
            field3 LIKE \"%$words[$i]%\" OR
            field4 LIKE \"%$words[$i]%\"
        )
    ";
}


SELECT fields FROM table WHERE $innerquery AND whatever;

dict is a dictionary function