Is There a way to use Zend Search Lucene in a way similar to Useing the WHERE LIKE sql in Databases?

$select = $this->_db->select()->from($this->_name,array("id","fullname","username","email"))->where("fullname LIKE '$query%'");

I am using this SQL statement currently to power my Ajax auto suggest, if i type i开发者_运维问答n "a" it gets me results starting with a.

I want to know if this can be accomplished my using Zend Lucene indices.

Your first stop should be the Zend Framework reference manual, and more specifically : http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.search.lucene.query-language.html

So you can use * for wildcard searches just like you would use % in SQL (ie. when you provide part of a word).