[nickaster]

on hugg, this search:

http://www.hugg.com/?search=car

Gets no result, even though a lot of posts talk about cars. Is the search function onlylooking for tags?

[Yankidank]

2 issues with this...

1. Due to some MySQL restrictions you can't search for items with 3 characters or less.
2. Pligg is very specific about searching, so if you try to search for something like "game" it won't display results that have the word "games". The characters have to match exactly in order to turn up in search results. This is something that we will eventually tweak down the road.

[3dKiller]

In response to "2 Issues":

1. Clearly digg uses something other than MySQL as you can search successfully for words less than 3 characters in length.

2. Exact search must be fixed pronto. This should be a high priority. Anyone here have the knowhow to get this done?

~3d

[AshDigg]

I had a fix but it broke other things so I'm still working on it

[3dKiller]

Originally Posted by AshDigg

I had a fix but it broke other things so I'm still working on it

AshDigg,

I'm so glad to hear you are working on this! It's so important.

Here is what I want (as if that matters, LOL):

Search should search ALL content. I know I've said this before, but there ya go, I said it again, because as I said, it's really important.

Another flavor, please work on our codebase in Trac, so we can spin out a good revision w/MB soon.

Thanks alot!

~3d

[AshDigg]

I rewrote some of the search functions and put it on my test site here. Please give it a test if you have some time, and let me know if anything breaks. Also, it's supposed to show the MySQL code at the moment.

thanks!

[beatniak]

got it working on my site for some time now. Was this an issue?

http://www.keepaddit.com/?search=tv

I will put it in Mollio Beat 1.3 and/or 2.0

It's only a few lines in index.php above this line:
$main_smarty = do_sidebar($main_smarty);

//Steef: quick hack to get 2 character search working in tagcloud
  if(!empty($_REQUEST['tag'])){
    if(!empty($_REQUEST['search'])){
      $mysearch = $_REQUEST['search'];
      $from_where = "FROM links, tags WHERE tag_words='$mysearch' AND link_id=tag_link_id ORDER BY `link_votes` DESC ";
    }
  }

//Steef: quick hack to get 2 character search working in normal search
    if(!empty($_REQUEST['search'])){
      $mysearch = $_REQUEST['search'];
      $from_where = "FROM links, tags WHERE tag_words='$mysearch' AND link_id=tag_link_id ORDER BY `link_votes` DESC ";
    }
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------

[The Humanaught]

Hey, I'm running a recent version of both Pligg and the Mollio theme... but it would seem that my search is still just searching tags. This is a bit lame, any way to fix this? A quick hack or something?

And am I right in thinking that all the search code is in the shakeit_center.tpl file?

[kaoru5thchild]

yes i would love to see a better search algorithim since site using pligg needs to be able to search. I am not looking for the google agorithim but something that gives better returns would really help this cms

[Yankidank]

Originally Posted by kaoru5thchild

yes i would love to see a better search algorithim since site using pligg needs to be able to search. I am not looking for the google agorithim but something that gives better returns would really help this cms

You just brought up a 3 year old thread. Pligg now has more advanced search options. Check out the advanced search page.