Search engine wildcard

[fellowsurfer]

Hi,
I have an issue with 3.0.4 Prosilver

Search fails unless you apply a wild-card to your entry.

Example:-

Hello - no vaild entries

Hello* - 91 entries.

I only have access to the templates at the moment, so my first thought is a quick fix and adding * to every entry.

I have already exchanged the form button for an image, so I imagine I could alter the code.

Here's the code. Can anyone advise what modification if any I can make, so the wildcard is added automatically?

<input class="inputbox search tiny" type="text" name="keywords" id="search_keywords" size="20" value="{L_SEARCH_FORUM}" onclick="if (this.value == '{LA_SEARCH_FORUM}') this.value = '';" onblur="if (this.value == '') this.value = '{LA_SEARCH_FORUM}';"/>
<!--<input class="button2" type="submit" value="[L_SEARCH}">-->
<input type="image" src="http://i44.tinypic.com/1607fuu.jpg" alt="Submit button" /><br />

Should add i admin for a site with 56,000 members.

Regards

Fs

[dcz]

I don't think that it's related to prosilver, but rather to the common word filtering.
Adding the wildcard will just deactivate it on word being common (thus filtered from search results) because "hello" != "hello*" (and obviously "hello*" was not used enough in posts to fell in the common words) and "hello*" will match "hello".

I don't think that adding wildcards automatically would be a good thing, would be better to either set the common word threshold to a higher value to filter less words, or even to set it to 0 to deactivate it in the search options of the acp.

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