private static function _getSimilarCharacters($bracketId, $query) { $retVal = []; // Search for similar entered characters first $characters = Api\Character::searchBracketCharacters($query, $bracketId); if ($characters && count($characters)) { $retVal = $characters; } else { // Search nominees so that maybe we can prevent another similar character being nominated $nominees = Api\Nominee::searchBracketNominees($query, $bracketId); if ($nominees && count($nominees)) { $retVal = $nominees; } } return $retVal; }