Boolean searches

[Brandon Martus]

Travis Hoffman asked me about boolean searches, and I wasn't sure whether or not vBulletin supported it or not -- turns out it does, unofficially. It wasn't easy to find in the options (had to turn the forums off, enter debug mode, yada yada) but it's on now. So, now you can search for things like: karthik AND singing or woody OR woodie, etc. If you want to learn more about the operators you can use, check out the full-text boolean search page in the mysql documentation.

Please let me know if you find any problems searching, or using any other parts of the site, now that this setting is changed.

Thanks,
Brandon

[Greg Needel]

Ah now the mystery of why CD was off line for 5 mins is revealed. Nice job Brandon.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

Ah now the mystery of why CD was off line for 5 mins is revealed. Nice job Brandon.

Evidently it takes a bit more than a few minutes to do two fulltext indexes on almost 500k posts. Who knew?

[Pat Fairbank]

Awesome, you can search for phrases now by enclosing them in quotes! (or was this always a feature?). Only thing is that vBulletin's highlighter highlights every word that appears in the phrase, not just the phrase itself. Oh well.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Awesome, you can search for phrases now by enclosing them in quotes! (or was this always a feature?). Only thing is that vBulletin's highlighter highlights every word that appears in the phrase, not just the phrase itself. Oh well.

I believe thats a bonus to this new feature. Before it would just get all of the words, no matter if they were grouped or not. I think.

[Travis Hoffman]

You all have me to thank for this absolutely genius request. Today, my actions have....

1. shut down Chief Delphi for 5 minutes
2. helped make all your CD browsing experiences more efficient.

I rock, and I didn't even do anything. But if CD crashes because Brandon turned this feature on, it's all his fault!

Ha, thanks again Brandon for being so proactive and responsive to the community. This is going to save me a ton of time.

[anna~marie]

wahoo!! thanks!!
I was wondering if CD actually had that... now it does!

[Mark McLeod]

Brandon AND rocks

Don't need to search for that one

[Jessica Boucher]

"Oh, Boolean operators! 'Blue and ones'! Good idea!"

Thanks, Brandon