Search - How does it work.

[Digital Doctor]

I searched for Trophy Skin as I remember talking about the idea.
However: No results returned.


I guess the actual post contained: Trophy Skins
Trophy Skin (no hit)
Trophy Skin* (hit)

When searching for Trophy Skin, should Trophy Skins show up by default ?
Anyone have some details here ?

 

[Shadab]

Guess it does an exact "word" search. and not related-words-search. So a word "xyz" would match only "xyz", not "xyza". I could be wrong. But I couldn't find anything in the MySQL documentation that would indicate otherwise.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Guess it does an exact "word" search. and not related-words-search. So a word "xyz" would match only "xyz", not "xyza". I could be wrong. But I couldn't find anything in the MySQL documentation that would indicate otherwise.

This does seem to be the case.

IMO: I think by default for title searching especially, that a search for Skin should hit on a title called with Skins.
You want to encourage title searching.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Another weird thing:

In the Addons forum.
When I Title search for *welcome* I get 197 his.
When I Title search for welcome* I get no hits.
When I search (titles and posts) I get :

The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common.
I think this is confusing.

 

[Paul B]

"Welcome" is an SQL stopword so search can't be performed using just that.

By introducing a wildcard (*), you're actually just searching all titles.

Why can't I search for certain words?
The MySQL search function has what are called stopwords, which are typically common words, and are excluded from searches. Find more information on the MySQL site.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-180445

 

[erich37]

As Kier said he is currently working on "Search", I do hope he is not just working on "Sphinx" for the "big boards", but also improving "search" for XF itself, so for the average-size forum-webmaster.

 

[Steve10]

As Kier said he is currently working on "Search", I do hope he is not just working on "Sphinx" for the "big boards", but also improving "search" for XF itself, so for the average-size forum-webmaster.

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that Kier is not working on Sphinx and is instead using a different alternative. I would hope that the new alternative would improve search for all sizes however I find the search we have at the moment very good anyway for medium sized boards.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that Kier is not working on Sphinx and is instead using a different alternative.

Where was that mentioned ? People would want to know about that.

 

[Steve10]

Where was that mentioned ? People would want to know about that.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I saw it somewhere, I'll see if I can hunt it down.

EDIT: I was wrong, sorry about that, I completely misread a post.

EDIT 2: I wasn't wrong, look at Brogan's post for a link to Kier's comment on using Sphinx.

 

[erich37]

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...munity-using-xenforo.12452/page-4#post-195167

 

[Paul B]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I saw it somewhere, I'll see if I can hunt it down.

EDIT: I was wrong, sorry about that, I completely misread a post.

You weren't wrong

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/sphinx-search-engine.6447/page-3#post-174139

 

[Steve10]

You weren't wrong

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/sphinx-search-engine.6447/page-3#post-174139

I KNEW IT! Thanks!