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  1. Apr 22nd, 2003, 11:43 AM #1
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    search for phrase

    Is there a way to search this forum for phrases instead of a bunch of keywords bool'ed together?
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  2. Apr 23rd, 2003, 09:20 AM #2
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    I take it that the lack of response is an implied "No" ??
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  3. Apr 24th, 2003, 10:20 AM #3
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    Enclose the phrase in inverted commas
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    Originally posted by plenderj
    inverted commas
    Is that a fancy way of saying apostrophe?
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    Surrounding a phrase with ' doesn't work and neither does ". You get back posts with the words but not the phrase.
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    OK, assuming it currently isnt possible,

    Would you be able to make it possible? I see a lot of folks being chastised for not using the search before asking questions. That seems a little unfair to me when the search function doesnt do something as basic as a phrase search (admitedly I have no idea how big a deal it would be to implement this).
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  8. Apr 29th, 2003, 10:01 AM #7
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    vBulletin, the forum software, doesn't support this due to MySQL 3.23 not supporting full text searches.

    MySQL 4 does support full text searches, but vBulletin still "supports" MySQL 3.23, so they can't take advantage of MySQL 4. At the moment vBulletin has a search-index with thousands of words in it (every word on this board, except common ones like and, or, etc). Because of this search-index it's just not possible (unless you want to execute 100's of SQL queries) to do phrase searches
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  9. Apr 30th, 2003, 05:33 PM #8
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    bummer ...

    Thanks for the explanation though!
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