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Nintendo-Daily
03-14-2009, 04:57 PM
Is there any way (without downloading a modification) to improve the search feature that vbulletin uses? For example, if I search for "Kirb" no results will be found for "Kirby." I would like partial parts of the work to return results.

EDIT: I guess what I am asking is if the wildcard feature can be done automatically instead of the members having to put a "*" at the end of the search query.

Nintendo-Daily
03-15-2009, 09:19 PM
Anyone?

Nintendo-Daily
03-17-2009, 12:21 AM
Anyone?

Is there any way (without downloading a modification) to improve the search feature that vbulletin uses? For example, if I search for "Kirb" no results will be found for "Kirby." I would like partial parts of the work to return results.

EDIT: I guess what I am asking is if the wildcard feature can be done automatically instead of the members having to put a "*" at the end of the search query.

Nintendo-Daily
03-29-2009, 05:30 AM
Anyone?

Is there any way (without downloading a modification) to improve the search feature that vbulletin uses? For example, if I search for "Kirb" no results will be found for "Kirby." I would like partial parts of the work to return results.

EDIT: I guess what I am asking is if the wildcard feature can be done automatically instead of the members having to put a "*" at the end of the search query.

Nintendo-Daily
03-30-2009, 12:58 PM
Am I posting this in the wrong spot or something?

Is there any way (without downloading a modification) to improve the search feature that vbulletin uses? For example, if I search for "Kirb" no results will be found for "Kirby." I would like partial parts of the work to return results.

I guess what I am asking is if the wildcard feature can be done automatically instead of the members having to put a "*" at the end of the search query.

Lynne
03-30-2009, 02:04 PM
You are asking if you can somehow add a wildcard to the end automatically but without doing a modification. If you can't do any sort of modification, then there is no way to automatically add a * at the end of the search. You would need to modify the code to do that (but you say you don't want to).

Nintendo-Daily
03-30-2009, 08:25 PM
You would need to modify the code to do that (but you say you don't want to).

I said I didn't want to download a modification. I have no problem modifying a page I just don't which one to edit. Would something like this work?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=47385&highlight=wildcard

Lynne
03-30-2009, 09:55 PM
Maybe. Try it on your test site and see.

PaulAxure
10-26-2011, 08:50 PM
Any luck with this? I can't find anything anywhere for v4.x or anything besides old versions of VB and it would be really useful.