Climbing the mySQL learning curve, need a hand.

I have a field with Company names, say 1-6 words. What is the best way to set up a multiple keyword query (assume AND search) to do a word search on company names? e.g. searching on "Ford Motor" should match "Ford Motor Company" but not "Waterford Motoring Mills"

Do you also want "Ford Motor" to find such things as "Fordham Motoring" and "Motorboats by Fordham"? If so, one way to do it is,

$xArray = explode(" ", $search);
foreach($xArray as $key=>$value)
{
$searchWhere .= " (MySQL_Field like '$value%'
or MySQL_Field like '% $value')
and ";
}
// finish the final "and"
$searchWhere .= " MySQL_Field != ''";
// Make the query
$query = "SELECT * from TABLE where $searchWhere ";
// etc.

It's best of course to also clean the data; each term should be stripped of HTML and other code, and quotes and so on should be stripped. The foreach will fail if there's an empty $search so that's got to be tested too.