the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I did a search for BBC it found nothing! Weird! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 three letter words don't usually work I've found Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Wll tht a fat lot of god. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Search for BBC* and it will work... Thought ex Moderator would know that.. Foxy Fox Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thanks! I was reading the Phorum manual but there doesn't seem to be a config option for search.I wonder if . ! or % work as well? Is the index corrupt? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 you know what foxy, I feel as if I should have known that but for some reason it never occured to meI'm often trying to search for 3 letter words so cheers for the tip Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 They don't! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Star ' * ' is just a Wildcard. Fox. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Yes % _ ? and . are also common metacharacters.I think it would worth charging the minum word length. But then I don't know the full picture.For Chinese, full text search is not a useful feature. In the Phorum config file, ft_search can be disabled, making the search for Chinese a lot more useful.For 'nobody', you are looking at a MySQL quirk. MySQL full text searching does make use of a list of stop words. The stop words are not included in the search data by default. For a list of stopwords see this MySQL manual page.The administrator of the MySQL server can disable the stop word behavior by using the following in the my.cnf configuration file:[mysqld]ft_stopword_file = ""After setting this option and restarting the MySQL server, the search index needs to be rebuilt. In the admin interface, there is an option for that below the database integrity menu item. After rebuilding the search index, searching for 'nobody' or other stop words should work as well.Futhermore, note that MySQL also uses a max word length for full text indexing. Words that are shorter than this length are ignored as well. If you have troubles searching for short words, then the MySQL server admin can set ft_min_word_len= 2 for example to use a different minimal word length. A server restart + search index rebuild operation are needed for this too.When you have no willing MySQL admin at hand, then you can always switch to non-full-text search in the Phorum config file. Note however that for a big board this might slow down the search speed. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Looks like the default stop words are there - nobody is only found with an asterisk after it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukesdenver Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Use Google:site:www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk bbcLoads of results. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 i guess you guys are joking???BBC search came up with (and I quote)"About 705,000,000 results (0.12 seconds)"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AxU1IWKk0jY/Tbi8N61iw0I/AAAAAAAAAOA/Q1eu6DDhv0I/s1600/information+overload.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 charliecharlie Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> i guess you guys are joking???> > BBC search came up with (and I quote)> "About 705,000,000 results (0.12 seconds)"> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AxU1IWKk0jY/Tbi8N61iw0I/> AAAAAAAAAOA/Q1eu6DDhv0I/s1600/information+overload> .jpgThought we were talking about ED Forum search not Google.. (!) Foxed Fox Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Thats a good idea. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/23138-is-search-working/#findComment-539678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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