Search function here

[phunkymama]

Does it just not work at all?

I've tried entering a single word, and all forums, and I come up with no results. I've tried searching for a phrase in one specific forum, and I get a error.

Is there a way to get the search function to work? Maybe it's just me, but I think it's pretty important.

[nathan_anderson]

Does it just not work at all?

I've tried entering a single word, and all forums, and I come up with no results. I've tried searching for a phrase in one specific forum, and I get a error.

Is there a way to get the search function to work? Maybe it's just me, but I think it's pretty important.

What did you attempt to search for? The search system eliminates words that have too high of a frequency to be useful. For instance; the word "sew" has probably been eliminated by now since a good chunk of messages have that word it in to make it useful to search on.

Nathan.

[stitching_mouse]

It doesn't seem to work very often for me, either.

I just tried to search for "bizz" in all forums/etc (there is a current thread that contains this word), and got no hits.

[phunkymama]

What did you attempt to search for? The search system eliminates words that have too high of a frequency to be useful. For instance; the word "sew" has probably been eliminated by now since a good chunk of messages have that word it in to make it useful to search on.

Nathan.

There was a thread a while back about how long to wait for seamstress boutique transactions. I tried to search "wait transaction" and got the error when I limited it to the Material Girls board. When I used the same phrase and searched all boards, I got a bunch of results from the feedback board which is not where the original thread was posted. I did finally find the post I was looking for on the 3rd page of results.

[nathan_anderson]

It doesn't seem to work very often for me, either.

I just tried to search for "bizz" in all forums/etc (there is a current thread that contains this word), and got no hits.

Bizz is probably removed because it is only 4 characters long... Smaller words are removed automatically just because of the size of the messages.

Nathan.

[stitching_mouse]

I wonder if this is why it doesn't work when I search for patten numbers, then?
I tried searching on a 4 digit number a few times and was puzzled when nothing came up, because I knew that specific pattern number had been discussed.

[nathan_anderson]

I wonder if this is why it doesn't work when I search for patten numbers, then?
I tried searching on a 4 digit number a few times and was puzzled when nothing came up, because I knew that specific pattern number had been discussed.

If they are 4 digits it is probably automatically excluded for size reasons.

Nathan.

[stitching_mouse]

Is that ann automatic function of the software, or can admin can set it differently? Just curious - sometimes it would be nice to be able to search on 4 letter things!

[nathan_anderson]

Is that ann automatic function of the software, or can admin can set it differently? Just curious - sometimes it would be nice to be able to search on 4 letter things!

If I recall corrently it is programmed that way... 4 letters unfortunately would cause the word list to grow astronomical causing searches to be extreamly slow. For instance in this post group alone we have over 50--four letter words (not including quotes). Every one of them would cause an additional word to be added to the word database... Think how quickly that grows -- and once the Word DB gets to a certain size; the searching is worthless...

Nathan.

[nutmeg]

Is there a solution for this? We need this to work better. I had a google search in a block, I guess I could do that again.

We need to be able to search for pattern numbers which are often 4 numbers.

[nutmeg]

bumped and moved so maybe we can work this out somehow :heart:

[arasmama]

Now "t-shirt" works for me today. As do 4 letter terms. Maybe it depends on some sort of alignment of the planets.

I can't get numbers to come up though. I was searching otto issues - like 2/05, etc.

[Anonymous]

Now "t-shirt" works for me today. As do 4 letter terms. Maybe it depends on some sort of alignment of the planets.

I can't get numbers to come up though. I was searching otto issues - like 2/05, etc.

Hmm, I could be wrong but I thought the default search disabled 4 letter words... I didn't actually look at the code...

Now if you NEED number; I can add code to support 4 number sequences.

Nathan.

[nutmeg]

Yes, please add numbers.

I just tried to look for 'swap' in the Runway and got this message:

General Error

Could not obtain topic ids

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY p.topic_id' at line 5

SELECT p.topic_id FROM nuke_bbposts p WHERE p.post_id IN (577, 1676, 1746, 53474) AND p.forum_id = 5 GROUP BY p.topic_id GROUP BY p.topic_id

Line : 515
File : search.php

:doh

[nutmeg]

and searching the whole thing for mama and swap got me this error:


Could not obtain topic ids

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY p.topic_id' at line 5

SELECT p.topic_id FROM nuke_bbposts p WHERE p.post_id IN (906, 1162, 221, 327, 359, 363, 392, 438, 461, 508, 599, 642, 652, 657, 675, 679, 685, 710, 743, 752, 1000, 1017, 1023, 1026, 1030, 1047, 1082, 1089, 1118, 1287, 1371, 1433, 1528, 1669, 1694, 1788, 1806, 1905, 1952, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 2015, 2055, 2145, 2189, 2197, 2264, 53465, 53489, 53500, 577, 1676, 1746, 53474) AND p.forum_id = 5 GROUP BY p.topic_id GROUP BY p.topic_id

Line : 515
File : search.php

:doh

[arasmama]

:yes: That is what I usually get when I am searching.

[Anonymous]

and searching the whole thing for mama and swap got me this error:


Could not obtain topic ids

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY p.topic_id' at line 5

SELECT p.topic_id FROM nuke_bbposts p WHERE p.post_id IN (906, 1162, 221, 327, 359, 363, 392, 438, 461, 508, 599, 642, 652, 657, 675, 679, 685, 710, 743, 752, 1000, 1017, 1023, 1026, 1030, 1047, 1082, 1089, 1118, 1287, 1371, 1433, 1528, 1669, 1694, 1788, 1806, 1905, 1952, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 2015, 2055, 2145, 2189, 2197, 2264, 53465, 53489, 53500, 577, 1676, 1746, 53474) AND p.forum_id = 5 GROUP BY p.topic_id GROUP BY p.topic_id

Line : 515
File : search.php

:doh

Fixed. If you see any more "errors" like that let me know and I can get them fixed.

Nathan.

[nathan_anderson]

Now "t-shirt" works for me today. As do 4 letter terms. Maybe it depends on some sort of alignment of the planets.

I can't get numbers to come up though. I was searching otto issues - like 2/05, etc.

Hmm, I could be wrong but I thought the default search disabled 4 letter words... I didn't actually look at the code...

Now if you NEED number; I can add code to support 4 number sequences.

Nathan.

I looked at the code it does accept numbers already permitting they are 4 digits or more. ;-)

So 2011 will bring up one post and 2025 will bring up another...

Nathan.