I've been trying to workout a method of achieving full-text search without installing a server level piece of software.
I've read various posts throughout Stack Overflow which suggest applications such as Sphinx. However, the application I am writing is a PHP application which is deployed automatically to a chosen server and I don't want the reliance of a server level application.
Are there any PHP libraries, MySQL functions which are able to do this?
I am happy with the result set my current standard MySQL LIKE query returns, I am more seeking to resolve the issue of ordering the results by relevance.