Search For Words?

  • philbertdog

    (@philbertdog)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi again,

    I’m creating a searchable article database and hoping that searches will find article titles which contain words which match the search term.

    Is there a way to configure search so that it will find only words, and not strings?

    As example, when I turn strict searching OFF, a search for “men” will find both the word “men” and also “mentality”. A strict OFF search is going to bring up a lot of irrelevant results.

    When I turn strict searching ON no records are found unless the field being searched contains only the search term and nothing else. So I can’t use strict searching.

    I don’t know php but I have done a lot of perl coding. If you can point me to the file/line where the search regex is, and suggest an edit, perhaps I could customize my install myself?

    I get why search is the way it currently is, as searching for strings would be useful in some uses, just not in mine.

    Again, many thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Roland Barker

    (@xnau)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    You can customize the search results yourself, given some facility with php and database queries. The plugin uses a mySQL query to get the results, and there are filters you can use to modify the query to get the desired results.

    You can also get this by using the Combo Multisearch add-on for Participants Database. It has several modes to fine-tune the results, including “whole word” and phrase searches.

    If you’ve got questions about the add-on please use the add-on’s support forum or email me directly.

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