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[Dismounted]

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Description:
This hack removes words that are shorter than your "minimum word length" specified, which in turn removes that annoying "The search term you specified (*) is under the minimum word length (*)...." message. Refer to the screenshot for more of a clue.

Request:
Everywhere ;)

Installation:
All the installation information is in the package.

Changes:
2 Plugins

Change Log:
22/07/2007 - Version 1.2
- Fixed Letter Instances Issue

16/07/2007 - Version 1.1
- Fixed Empty Words Issue
- Fixed Capitalised Words Issue

8/07/2007 - Version 1.0
- Initial Release

[Dismounted]

/me Reserves

[MaestroX]

Looks nice, thanks for releasing :)

[Distance]

Thanks :)

By any chance did this have anything to do with the thread I made in feedback section :p

Edit, yes it is, just seen the post :)


Thanks again ;)

[MaestroX]

Just tested this out and its a nice feature that can really enchance the user experience. To be honest this should be standard in vbulletin.

[projectego]

Great idea. Thanks for sharing. :)

[RvG2]

man this is an excellent hack... :)

vbulletin should review this part.

[TTG]

# Step 2 (Adjust Settings):

* Go to your AdminCP.
* vBulletin Options -> Click 'vBulletin Options' -> Scroll down the list until you see the 'Continue Search' options.
* Adjust each of the settings to meet your needs.



Enabled .. Yes / No :D

Nice addition .. clicked install.

[ymy]

Thanks for sharing

Install click

Ymy

[hambil]

Good work :)

[maxicep]

installed thanks.
this hack must be on new vb releases.

[rjmjr69]

Awesome works great thank you

[Gray Matter]

This is a great hack. Thanks for taking the time to do it. (Y)

[jasculs]

Thank you

[Smoothie]

vBulletin Options -> Click 'vBulletin Options' -> Scroll down the list until you see the 'Continue Search' options.
Adjust each of the settings to meet your needs.


Only see one setting, on or off, am I missing something here?

[Dannyloski]

^ That's the only setting, you dont need anything else ...

Anyways ... Installed and working perfectly ... I love this and I agree with everyone else, this should be standard in vB ... :up:

[PoetJA-1975]

Very nice share = Thanx ;)

Jacquii.

[Hornstar]

Nice work Dismounted. Hopefully this will be standard in the next vb update, because I cant stand the way the search is currently.

[Dismounted]

Only see one setting, on or off, am I missing something here?
No, it's just my standard ReadMe. :p

[dotJoel]

excellent, and really should be part of VB by default. Nominated for MOTM as it really does change the user experience.

[BadgerDog]

Installed... :)

Thanks....

How can I validate that this is working differently than the native search?

I've tried several phrases with the mod on and off, but I get the exact same results? :confused:

Regards,
Badger

[Dannyloski]

If you're not getting the following message when entering words in the search that are shorter than the "minimum word length" specified in your AdminCP, then this Hack is working ...

The search term you specified (***) is under the minimum word length (*) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.

[BadgerDog]

If you're not getting the following message when entering words in the search that are shorter than the "minimum word length" specified in your AdminCP, then this Hack is working ...


Thanks for the response... :)

I do not get that message, but if I search our entire forums for the word "the" (as an example), I get the following message:

Please specify some words or valid user names to search on. There were no matches for those that you specified.

I thought that this mod was supposed to bypass and extend the search capability past the short length limiation, or have I misunderstood what it does? The word "the" must occur somewhere in our thousands of posts?

BTW, this occurs with this mod turned ON...

Regards,
Badger

Edit: if I turn the mod OFF and serach for "the", I get the following on a new screen:

The search term you specified (the) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.

[Paul M]

It's working correctly for you then.

[BadgerDog]

It's working correctly for you then.

Thanks Paul, that's what I thought, but then why in 6,293 posts, does the word "the" (no quotes) not appear according to the first message with the mod turned ON?

Regards,
Badger

Edit: plus .. when I search with mod ON for "45 days" (no quotes), I get:

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short
and were not included in your search: 45

Sorry for being so thick ... :o

[Dismounted]

I think you're misunderstanding what this hack does. This hack removes words that are shorter than your "minimum word length" specified, which in turn removes that annoying "The search term you specified (*) is under the minimum word length (*)...." message.

If you want to include those short words, you could just lower you minimum word length.

[BadgerDog]

I think you're misunderstanding what this hack does. This hack removes words that are shorter than your "minimum word length" specified, which in turn removes that annoying "The search term you specified (*) is under the minimum word length (*)...." message.

If you want to include those short words, you could just lower you minimum word length.

Ahhhh..... :)

Thanks... now I get it.... :up:

Give me a coffee break and you'll have to retrain me.... :o

Regards,
Badger

[bazzup]

nice installed

[PoetJA-1975]

I think you're misunderstanding what this hack does. This hack removes words that are shorter than your "minimum word length" specified, which in turn removes that annoying "The search term you specified (*) is under the minimum word length (*)...." message.

If you want to include those short words, you could just lower you minimum word length.

hmmm - You should put that explanation in the 1st post :P
I actually thought the hack is an inclusive one which would accept the shorter words LOL
Same difference I suppose :) ==== Thanx for the share just the same ;)

Jacquii.

[livewirecebu]

My impression of this hack was the same as POETJA-1975. The explaination in the first page was not so clear that i thought that it will allow me to search shorter words.

[Dismounted]

You should put that explanation in the 1st post :P
Done.

[youryogi.com]

Good hack!

I agree with others that this should be standard in vbulletin.

[MaestroX]

I found a small bug. When searching for all threads by a member, the line:

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:

appears in the search results. This line isn't relevent to the search so shouldn't be displayed?

Thanks

[Dismounted]

I'll look into it.

[Dismounted]

Hack Updated!

16/7/2007 - Version 1.1
- Fixed Empty Words Issue
- Fixed Capitalised Words Issue

[BadgerDog]

Thanks for the update.... :up:

Just a note....

It still shows ver 1.0 after install and overwrite, instead of v1.1?

Regards,
Badger

[MaestroX]

Thanks Dismounted!

[Dismounted]

It still shows ver 1.0 after install and overwrite, instead of v1.1?
Small issue, updated zip.

[Dannyloski]

Awesome, upgraded!

[Videx]

After updating to 1.1 I've lost the message "were not included...". i.e., "its all that" drops the words its and all, but doesn't say why.

Actually, maybe 1.0 was doing this too. If there are no results, the message doesn't appear. It appears normally if there are results.

[Dismounted]

After updating to 1.1 I've lost the message "were not included...". i.e., "its all that" drops the words its and all, but doesn't say why.

Actually, maybe 1.0 was doing this too. If there are no results, the message doesn't appear. It appears normally if there are results.
If it hasn't got any results, it shows the standard "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." error.

[Videx]

If it hasn't got any results, it shows the standard "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." error.Right. But isn't that misleading? It leads the user to believe they searched for three words when really they only searched on one.

[jasculs]

Right. But isn't that misleading? It leads the user to believe they searched for three words when really they only searched on one.

I my opinion it's much more annoying not even getting any results because one word was 3 letters and another word was 4

Example in the regular search

hat - no results because of 3 letter word
hat stand - no results because of 3 letter word in phrase
stand - produces results

Example with this mod:

hat stand - produces some results because it bypasses the 3 letter word error

[Zork2]

I love this idea, vbulletin should have this built in.

but the first search I did "a family guy" changed my search to "fmily"

when I search for "b family guy" then it searches for "family" like it is suppose to.

I just searched for "I family" and it was changed to "famly" so it seems to do it with other characters also.

[Dismounted]

Hack Updated!

22/07/2007 - Version 1.2
- Fixed Letter Instances Issue

[Axel Foley]

Great hack Dismounted...;)

One little glitch: the automatic version checking from ACP doesn't work. Could you look into it? I just upgraded to 1.2 and if I do the check version it tells me last version is 1.0.

Thanks for your work. :)

[Axel Foley]

Great hack Dismounted...;)

One little glitch: the automatic version checking from ACP doesn't work. Could you look into it? I just upgraded to 1.2 and if I do the check version it tells me last version is 1.0.

Thanks for your work. :)

Never mind, I just noticed that the problem is the version number of the hack on THIS thread...you should update it...;)

[Dismounted]

Never mind, I just noticed that the problem is the version number of the hack on THIS thread...you should update it...;)
Whoops, fixed.

[squidstir]

Very nice, just upgraded from VB 3.6.1 to 3.6.8 and I thought my members were going to lynch me.

[marcossalazar]

Such a great hack! Great Job! Thanks!

[KURTZ]

thx :)

[Antivirus]

Brilliant dismounted, jelsoft should have thought of this.I always hate that "too short message".

[nexialys]

hum, btw, a little note... why do you add a setting to activate it, if the only thing we need to do is deactivate the product if we do not need it?!... this is redundant and add more entries to the settings table... my 2?.. ;)

btw, where is the vote button?

[Dismounted]

Yeah, it's just a habit really. The vote button is under "Mod Information" :).

[fortforum.org]

Sorry to say that i had a problem installing. Does it work on 3.5.x?

[Dismounted]

Yes, but you need to remove all instaces of this in the product install file:
executionorder="5"

[zmmmzz]

thanks man

[SBlueman]

Very nice modification, thank you for this!

[Alfa1]

This should be part of vbulletin. Thanks for the hack!!

[Lynne]

I had this installed, but it isn't allowing users to use the words in my 'goodwords' options. Looking at the code, it looks like my users should be able to search for these 'goodwords', but they aren't. I'm running 3.6.8 PL2. Is anyone else seeing this problem?

[AlexanderT]

There seems to be a bug with searches wrapped in quotes.

When I search for "Sketches By Boz" with Continue Search enabled, the result is no matches and the text in the search form is changed to "sketches*boz".

When I search for "Sketches By Boz" with Continue Search disabled, the proper matches are returned.

[Dismounted]

I'll have a look at it.

[F0xy]

will this work in 3.7 RC1

[Dismounted]

This is standard functionality in vBulletin 3.7.

[alfaowner]

works great on 3.8.2

[Makc666]

works great on 3.8.2
Read above what Dismounted had said.

There is no need for this mod in 3.8.* and 3.7.* as this is standard functionality in vBulletin.