Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
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Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
I tried searching for exact phrases in quotes on this test board and a couple of other live Olympus boards and it doesn't work. "Happy Birthday" in quotes returns the same number of results as without the quotes and returns posts that contain happy AND birthday. Is it just that exact phrase searching is not set as default? Or will exact phrase searching just not be possible with phpbb3?
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Re: Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
It will just not be possible.
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Re: Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
Because only single words are indexed?
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I'm confused. I thought tht phpbb3 used mysql's full text search to do the searching. Exact phrase search is part of mysql's capabilities, so I thought it should be available in phpbb3 as a search option. Just using mysql's full text search is the way Invision allows exact phrase searching I believe.
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Re: Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
phpBB3 can use MySQL fulltext, but I don't think it does by default.
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Ok. So I guess if you set it to use mysql full text search then exact phrase searching is possible.
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Re: Is "exact phrase" searching available as a feature in phpbb3
i don't believe this is the case.greggish wrote: Ok. So I guess if you set it to use mysql full text search then exact phrase searching is possible.
phpbb breaks the search phrase to separate words before it hands it to the search mechanism. i don't think a huge change will be required to allow phrase search if mysql fulltext is used, but some change to the code will have to be done to bypass phpbb dissecting of the search phrase.