Search for 2 chars and 3 chars

[Robert9]

I want to find all add-ons from RO; I have no chance, because we cant search for "RO" without the help of skynet.
But because we are clever people, we use the [] to make the word longer, right?
That's the reason why we have

[RO] super elastic super add-on

The world is save, we are happy?

No; because the search dont let me search for [ro]; the search steals my brackets and tells me, that i cant search for "ro", because it is too short.

So what can we do?

Use AA-Ro or BB-Ro for all names and words that have only two or three chars?

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In one customer's forum, we have the rule, that every name with two or three chars must be written double.​

If your name is Eva then your thread needs to have the title:​

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Eva / EvaEva is calling you!​

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Now we can search for EvaEva ...​

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Is there a reason why the search cant search for:

[something]

?

 

[Paul B]

Is this thread supposed to be a suggestion, question, custom development, or development support?

 

[Robert9]

I want to know why the search can't be used to search for [xyz], please?
*** the brackets are part of the search term!

You can see that many, many coders give themselves a short name. But this short name is somehow senseless, if we can't search for [xy] or [xyz]; then every coder should have a name with at least four chars.

I just see:
Here i can search for "TV" or "XON", but not in my forum.

 

[Xon]

You need to use XenForo Enhanced Search with elasticsearch, as the stock MySQL full-text search has serious limitations.

 

[Paul B]

Thread moved from the suggestions forum ...

This forum uses elasticsearch.

Yours uses standard mysql search.

See points 13 and 14 of the FAQ: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-180445

 

[Robert9]

Thank you.
This would be the better solution, sure.

My mysql can search for

SELECT * FROM xf_post WHERE message LIKE '%[h2]%'


Is there a way to search in a normal xf without elastic search for:

[h2]