Best way to build a SMART mySQL & PHP search engine?

Question

What is the best way to build a mySQL & PHP search?

I am currently using things like

%term%

I want it to be able to

Answer 1

like '%term%' is terrible slow and unoptimized , you might want to add full-text for this column, and use boolean mode for this

Such as

match(column) against('+One +Shop +Stop' in boolean mode)

Take note on the min word lengths is 4, so, you need to consider change it to three, and full-text search only available for myisam

Other opensource search engine like sphinx is ideal for this too