Search on reference problems

BerntR
I am not able to search on references, such as 2-M-1.

I even pasted this reference from a post by Yoda, but it still doesn't appear. Quotation marks doesn't seem to make a difference.

So my suggestion is ..... to enable search on book references (surprise surprise)
Daryl
How would I search for a phrase. "Homers Notes"
HungryBear
Originally Posted by Daryl How would I search for a phrase. "Homers Notes"
Daryl,
May I add that if an Admin. (bambam) answers.
Please include a listing or point to a listing of ALL BOOLEAN AND OTHER OPERATIVES for the Forum search function.

Thanks
The Bear
bambam
Originally Posted by HungryBear Daryl,
May I add that if an Admin. (bambam) answers.
Please include a listing or point to a listing of ALL BOOLEAN AND OTHER OPERATIVES for the Forum search function.

Thanks
The Bear
Searching on 2-M-1 is problematic for our forum software because '-' is not considered a word character, instead it tells the search to exclude any results with the word following the -. I'm working on 2 things: a short term workaround for this issue and a long term replacement for our search indexer.

If you search for Homers Notes, that's the same as searching for Homer OR Notes. To search for that phrase you would put quotes around it. To search for Homer AND notes, you can type just that.

If you want all the nitty gritty details for our boolean search syntax, you can read through this page:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/...t-boolean.html

The last and probably most useful solution for this is google. We've opened up our forum so it's readable to the world, including google (I hear they're pretty good at this whole search engine thing).

Enter this at google, and you'll get pretty good results: "2-M-1" site:www.lynnblakegolf.com
Daryl
Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ.

Wow, the Boolean search syntax works great. '"Homers Notes"'
Yoda
Originally Posted by bambam Searching on 2-M-1 is problematic for our forum software because '-' is not considered a word character, instead it tells the search to exclude any results with the word following the -. I'm working on 2 things: a short term workaround for this issue and a long term replacement for our search indexer.

If you search for Homers Notes, that's the same as searching for Homer OR Notes. To search for that phrase you would put quotes around it. To search for Homer AND notes, you can type just that.

If you want all the nitty gritty details for our boolean search syntax, you can read through this page:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/...t-boolean.html

The last and probably most useful solution for this is google. We've opened up our forum so it's readable to the world, including google (I hear they're pretty good at this whole search engine thing).

Enter this at google, and you'll get pretty good results: "2-M-1" site:www.lynnblakegolf.com
I knew all this.



Thanks, Bambam. You're the best!