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

If you want a search I would advise something like Sphinx or Lucene, I find Sphinx (as an independent full text indexer) to be a lot easier to set up and run. It runs fast, and generates the indexes very fast. Even if you were using MyISAM I would suggest using it, it has a lot more power than a full text index from MyISAM.

It can also integrate (somewhat) with MySQL.