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Re:Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters by jrockway on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @08:04PM (#6961791)
Ah yes, php_real_escape_grep_parameters(3).
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Re:Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters by code_duck on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @11:20PM (#6965248)
Filtering out all characters other than ASCII alphabetical with preg_replace would probably do it.

And yeah, I'm not a huge fan of php - or the ridiculous function names it is known for. However, it can be dead simple to set up for trivial tasks (which is about all od want to use it for).

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