On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:42:17 +0200, you wrote:

>does any one have an example of a function to search a database for similar
>names and display them if the user inputs a name that is not found?

Are you looking for SOUNDEX, perhaps?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=SOUNDEX+algorithm

PHP and MySQL both have soundex functions. There are other "sounds like"
algorithms out there (eg Metaphone).

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