hi eveybody

i want to look how much an array comes in a database. Its pretty slow and i want to know if there's a way of searching like multiple words or an whole array without a for loop.. i'm struggeling for a while now.

here's my code

   $dateBegin = "2010-12-07 15:54:24.0";
$dateEnd = "2010-12-30 18:19:52.0";
$textPerson = " text text  text text  text text  text text  text text  text text  text text "; 



$textPersonExplode = explode(" ", $textPerson );



$db = dbConnect();
for ( $counter = 0;$counter <= sizeof($textPersonExplode)-1 ; $counter++) {


$query = "SELECT count(word) FROM `news_google_split`  WHERE `word` LIKE '$textPersonExplode[$counter]'   AND  `date` >= '$dateBegin' AND `date` <= '$dateEnd'"; 

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());



while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
 $word[] = $textPersonExplode[$counter];
 $count[] = $row[0];



}
if (!$result) {
    die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}
}

thanks for the help.