Search functionality in vBulletin message board...

[CyanBlue]

Howdy...

Just curious...

I don't think vBulletin support this, but I am asking this anyways...

Can I search specific phrase in the vBulletin message board???

For example, if I do the search with "Flash MX", I get to see the whole threads that contains not only "Flash MX", but also the ones with "Flash" and the ones with "MX"... Is there any way I could just get "Flash MX"???

[Jubba]

this is advanced as it gets:



Advanced query: Join words with AND, OR and NOT to control your search in more detail.
Add asterisks (*) to use wild cards in your search (*bullet* matches vBulletin etc.)



but if you use AND then it does return threads that only have the words Flash and MX in them...

[CyanBlue]

Thanks for the reply, Jubba... =)

Well... I am well aware of those words... But that doesn't work well, at least to me...

That "Flash MX" might not be a good example...
The one that I just tried... "setInterval clearInterval" returned 8 results... I see all the threads that contains setInterval and clearInterval, but I do not see the thread that exactly says "setInterval clearInterval"... Know what I mean???
Moreover... I found a thread that contains 'lineTo' from those 8 threads... So, I did a search again with 'setInterval lineTo' and I get nothing even I KNOW that there is at least one thread that contains those two terms...

I think vBulletin uses MySQL database, and I don't know how hard it is to implement better search capability... Of course there will be some issues such as search speed or CPU load if they implement that, but I THINK that kind of option should be available at least in the advanced search page...

Oh, well... I guess I'll survive whether with our without that complex search capability...