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nikkofir
(@nikkofir)

6 years, 11 months ago

Search results are only being returned on the first word – is this intentional?
e.g. searching for ‘Mouse’ returns results. Searching for ‘Mouse Pentecost’ returns exactly the same results…
Searching for “Mouse Pentecost” (with quotes) returns results for the exact phrase, but then escapes the quotes \”Mouse Pentecost\”

What’s going on here?

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Plugin Author Ajay
(@ajay)

6 years, 11 months ago

The quotes get escaped which is due to the security filtering. I’m still to find a solution for that one. However, you don’t need to be entering the quotes for the searches from my tests.

The reason is because the search should pull results which has the phrase first as it’s usually best matched.

Please see details: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/fulltext-restrictions.html

Thread Starter nikkofir
(@nikkofir)

6 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for the reply about the quotes.
However, our search function is still only searching on the first word, whether or not we use quotes?

Plugin Author Ajay
(@ajay)

6 years, 5 months ago

Can you try enabling boolean mode in the settings page?

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