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Title: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: CountB on June 24, 2005, 04:13:17 pm

Hi, hope this is the correct place to put this, I apologise if not.

I'm creating an image archive for my office marketing dept and I need a little help. The default search behaviour with boolean logic seems to be AND, so "woman ripe banana" is the same as "woman AND ripe AND banana". I would like it to default to OR as this generally returns more results. Is this possible?

Thanks!

James

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: Nibbler on June 24, 2005, 04:21:33 pm

The default already is or, and you can use and, or, and not in your search.

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: CountB on June 24, 2005, 04:29:50 pm

Quote from: Nibbler on June 24, 2005, 04:21:33 pm

The default already is or, and you can use and, or, and not in your search.

When I use no booleans I get the same results as and but or gives 'better' results, or seems to.

My users find this confusing so I'm trying to make things easier for them.

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: Nibbler on June 24, 2005, 04:34:01 pm

Can you post a link and some terms to search for ?

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: Nibbler on June 24, 2005, 04:37:06 pm

You can try changing incldue/search.inc.php lines 100 and 173

Code: [Select]

$current_match_type = 'and';
to

Code: [Select]

$current_match_type = 'or';

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: CountB on June 24, 2005, 04:54:09 pm

Quote from: Nibbler on June 24, 2005, 04:34:01 pm

Can you post a link and some terms to search for ?

Alas not as its intranet based.

I will try your mini-MOD, thanks.

Title: Re: Default boolean search behaviour
Post by: CountB on July 01, 2005, 04:31:58 pm

This now works fine, thanks!