Forum Search - How to

[pmitch_82]

Does anyone know how to do a multi-word search when looking for something in forums...eg if i'm looking for all star, making search find both words together not all posts with the word "all" and all posts with the word "star"..
If that makes sense, I've tried putting all+star but it still searches for both words indiviually.
Being a 90's collector its easier to search by set name rather than all the posts as theres not many 90 collectors out there...

 

[WoobieZarz]

What if you searched for "all star" with quotes?

Havent tried it, just suggesting it...

EDIT:
Not sure that works, didnt for me.

Not sure what you can try.

 

[graham]

Good question. I will figure it out. In the meantime you can use the site google search (in the search drop down) and use "quotes" around the search term eg "all star"

 

[dickyKnee]

Will have to try that. Do you have any idea how many results for Paul Davis there are, when you consider all the Pauls and the 50 million Davis' (three on the clippers alone ) there are

 

[graham]

I think i've figured it out.

Search for Paul+Davis - that should bring up all the Paul Davis results.

EDIT - thats incorrect. I will find out from vBulletin how to do it - surely there is a way!

 

[dickyKnee]

I think i've figured it out.

Search for Paul+Davis - that should bring up all the Paul Davis results.

Just tried again. The Google search works as it does on the main site (and so is an excellent addition to this site), but the site search with Paul+Davis still brings all all posts with Paul and Davis in them, but not necessarily as a phrase Paul Davis. But thats cool as the google search is excellent

 

[graham]

There you go - fixed it Searching for the term "Paul Davis" now brings up all posts with the exact phrase "Paul Davis" and none others (and you can search for "anything like this" inside the " and it will bring up any posts with those exact phrases.

For those that are really keen - this is the syntax you can use when searching
MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 11.8.2 Boolean Full-Text Searches

I will do up an FAQ post for searching.

 

[dickyKnee]

Sweet, thanks