How can I get the most popular words in a table via mysql?

Question

I\'ve got a table with a BLOB column. What I want to do is get it to be able to pick out words and list them in order.

For example if it contained:

• Bob

Answer 1

Don't think there is any built in MySQL function to do this so you are probably best using PHP to do the work for you using either explode(' ', $myString) or str_word_count($myString, 1) to create an array containing each word. Then loop through each word in the array and count them.