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Question

I am working on a web application which has a full text search feature working without any problems. I would like to improve this and add a prediction/correction feature to it, meaning that if the user makes a typo or something which has 0 results, a corrected version of that input would get queried instead which has results. Basically somethig like Google's did you mean: x feature.

Is there an easy built-in way in Laravel to do this, or anything useful to check? I have been Googleing the problem for some time now, but didn't find anything relevant.

I'm using Laravel 4.2 with a MySQL database, if that matters something.

Answer 1

There isn't anything built in. Initially I would look at integrating a spellcheck - there are a couple of packages available on packagist, although I don't know how well they perform

https://packagist.org/search/?q=spell

On a second level I guess you could store search terms in the DB and then do "People who searched for x also searched for y"

Answer 2

For the similar case, I used elastic search for

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Elastic search does a lot more than this like it will sort relevant results on many different cases and many more. You can use Elasticquent for Laravel which implements elasticsearch to eloquent.