Simple MySQL Search Function

A quick and simple way to search a MySQL database. Example: mysqlsearch('items', 'title tags', isset($GET['q'])?$GET['q']:'', Array('columns'=>'*', 'method'=>'OR', 'extrasql'=>'AND active = "true" ORDER BY id DESC'));
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<?php

    if (!function_exists('mysql_search')) {

    function mysql_search($table, $columns, $query = '', $options = Array()) {

    if (empty($query)) { return Array(); }

    $sql_query = Array();

    $options['columns'] = isset($options['columns'])?$options['columns']:'*';
    $options['method'] = isset($options['method'])?$options['method']:'OR';
    $options['extra_sql'] = isset($options['extra_sql'])?$options['extra_sql']:'';

    $query = ereg_replace('[[:<:]](and|or|the)[[:>:]]', '', $query);
    $query = ereg_replace(' +', ' ', trim(stripslashes($query)));

    $pattern = '/([[:alpha:]:]+)([[:alpha:] ]+)[[:alpha:]]?+[ ]?/i';

    $regs = Array();

    preg_match_all($pattern, $query, $regs);

    $query = $regs[0];

    while (list($key, $value) = @each($query)) {

    $column = $columns;
    $keywords = urldecode($value);

    if (strpos($value, ':')) {

    $column = substr($value, 0, strpos($value, ':'));
    $keywords = trim(substr($keywords, strpos($keywords, ':') + 1));
    $keywords = ereg_replace('\'', '', $keywords);

    } else { $keywords = ereg_replace(' +', '|', $keywords); }

    $column_list = explode(' ', $column);

    $sql = Array();

    for ($i = 0; $i < count($column_list); $i++) { $sql[] = '' . $column_list[$i] . ' REGEXP "' . $keywords . '"'; }

    $query[$key] = Array('orignal'=>$value, 'sql'=>implode(' ' . $options['method'] . ' ', $sql));

    $sql_query = array_merge($sql_query, $sql);
    $sql_query = implode(' ' . $options['method'] . ' ', $sql_query);

    }

    $results = mysql_fetch_results(mysql_query('SELECT ' . $options['columns'] . ' FROM ' . $table . ' WHERE ' . $sql_query . ' ' . $options['extra_sql']));

    return $results;

    }

    }
?>