Site Search using CI

[eluser]phantom-a[/eluser]
You want to search the database using the "like" method.

Maby this tutorial might help you. It follow what your after, maby not exactly what you need but it covers a bit about it.
http://video.derekallard.com/application

But if your allowing user to search the database with like method your best off to put a limiti on characters, some searches put a limit of 3 characters or else they could 1 letter like "a" and hit search and it will pull out the whole part of your database you told it search in. :-)