PHP, and X^Y searches.

Say, I have this X number of types of articles. From this articles, I search for an specific type, then, from these items, I have to search by brand, from this, I go color, and then by size.

This, of course, is a horror. PHP goes down with a whimper, not to mention that it is a terrible thing to do no matter the platform. What do you suggest me I should do? I asked my superiors if I could do some DB fixing, but they told me they cannot change the DB anytime soon.

Help?

take the logarithm of both sides and then you can solve it iterativly for a given x, so just range from x = 0 upwards to get all solutions (since they all have to positive anyway)

>>1
Forget it, it's NP-complete.

>>1
What's wrong with doing select * from table where type = 1 and brand = 'xyz' and color = 'red' and size = 'L', and putting indexes on all those columns in your where clause? Elaborate.

>>4
That's not [o]ENTERPRISE[o] enough.

>>5
([o]_[o])

The word pirahna, is all I can think of that rhymes with marijuana

Marijuana MUST be legalized.

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