Count occurrences of a word in a row in MySQL

Question

I\'m making a search function for my website, which finds relevant results from a database. I\'m looking for a way to count occurrences of a word, but I need to ensure that

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

select count(*) from table where fieldname REGEXP '[[:<:]]word[[:>:]]';

The gory details are in the MySQL manual, section 11.4.2.