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PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:46 pm    Post subject: Exact Phrase search Reply with quote

Something I have never been able to do is an exact phrase search on this forum; is this feature available?

If I search for "DISK Drive" I get results that have disk and drive in them, but I don't see how to limit my search to just the phrase "disk drive".

I apologize if this question has been asked and answered previously, I did not see anything about it.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That option should be available since phpBBS's search function is based on standard Boolean Logic.

Will look into the problem and see what's up ... something must be broke Embarassed
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello, any luck finding out why this is not working?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you on this.

You are correct in that the exact phrase search does not work. I thought we were running a standard phpBBS search module, but have discovered in my ancient notes a mention from Chris that the module was altered to disallow a vulnerability via the exact search function.

I've been looking for a version of our search function module, but have only come up with updated versions (yes, ours is that old!).

The question is, "Is this worth pulling our programmer away from existing projects to fix this"? I'm leaning toward leaving it as is and placing it on my "minor things to do" list.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, thanks for the info!
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