PHP/MySQL Search Engine

Hello Fellow Kirupians!

I have a question about developing a small search engine for a website. Basically, a friend wants me to develop a small yet accurate search engine that users can filter results through a selection of optional checkboxes to help narrow search results, where the data is pulled in and queried from a mySQL table.

A few years ago I developed a very basic search engine for a blog using mysql stuff i.e. ‘LIKE’ and ‘%s’ etc…, but it’s was pretty poo and I need this one to be fairly good. I was wondering if any of you knew of a good tutorial or any resources that I can read up on.

Thanks, all the best Patch^_^