Wildcard (*) in every searches

[warpeditor]

Hi, all

Since my forum is for Thai people we have to use wildcard (*) for better search result because we are using two byte fonts. However, most of the members always forget to include wildcard (*) and end up complaints for poor search result.

So, I was wondering whether it's possible to modify some files to including wildcard (*) for every searches. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Logician]

edit search.php, find:

PHP Code:

  $query=trim($query); 


after that add:

PHP Code:

if (substr($query, 0, 1)!="*") {$query='*'.$query;} 
if (substr($query, -1)!="*") {$query=$query.'*';} 


[warpeditor]

Thanks for reply.

I'll give it a try tonight.

Thanks again.

[SamirDarji]

Do you think this piece of code would allow for wildcard searches unless quotes are used? I haven't tried it and have never done any php programming, just some C. Feedback welcome before I starting hacking away...

if ((substr($query, 0, 1)!="*" && substr($query, 0, 1)!="\""))
   {
   $query='*'.$query;
   } 
if ((substr($query, -1)!="*" && (substr($query, -1)!="\"")) 
   {
   $query=$query.'*';
   }

[SamirDarji]

I tried the original suggestion on vb3, beta7 but couldn't find the same query line. I found one similar that looked like it was checking if there were any html codes in the query. I put the lines after that one, but still no results.

We really badly need auto wildcarding on our board. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.