search for phrase

Is there a way to search this forum for phrases instead of a bunch of keywords bool'ed together?

I take it that the lack of response is an implied "No" ??

Enclose the phrase in inverted commas

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Originally posted by plenderj
inverted commas

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Is that a fancy way of saying apostrophe?

Surrounding a phrase with ' doesn't work and neither does ". You get back posts with the words but not the phrase.

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).

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:(

bummer ... :(

Thanks for the explanation though!