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Does anyone know why search is not working?

sababonsababon
edited July 2010 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
It does not matter what is my search term i always get this msg: No results for...
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  • gwuix2gwuix2
    i got this problem too
  • sababonsababon
    Anyone?
  • sirlancelotsirlancelot New
    Are you talking about on your own forum or this website (vanillaforums.org)?
  • sababonsababon
    i'm taking about my forum
  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    A few things might be the problem:
    • If you don't have many posts then search results won't show up.
    • If you are searching for something that is <= 3 characters it won't show up.</li>
    • Try putting a + in front of your search term.
  • stavthewonderchickenstavthewonderchicken ✭
    Same issue here on 2.0 -- searches actually do nothing on my localhost testbed. The URL ends up at /vanillainstalldir/index.php?Search=searchterm (or =%2searchterm when prefixing with a '+'), but all Discussions are shown.
  • gwuix2gwuix2
    edited July 2010
    it did work for me with "+searchterm"
    "If you don't have many posts then search results won't show up." i got exactly 3, then maybe thats the problem for me
    thx
  • sababonsababon
    It works with the +. I have 2 posts maybe it is the problem. Thank you Todd for your help.
  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    @stavthewonderchicken In your case there is a bug that has been fixed for 2.0.1 due out end of week.
  • stavthewonderchickenstavthewonderchicken ✭
    @Todd sounds good, thanks.
  • dave_stewartdave_stewart New
    I've just had this as well, on a new install with 3 test posts.

    I get results if I type + first, but that's not going to be intuitive for my users.

    Why doesn't it just find the posts as one would expect?
  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    @dave_stewart. Search uses mysql fulltext searches by default. They don't usually show results unless you have a lot of data.

    It's just one of the problems with MySQL.
  • fohofoho

    I have the same bug too.

    Cause my site language is Chinese. [URL: www.maiplus.com]

    If you type Chinese and click search button,the result is none.

    I think this is a bug:“Search” function can not support Multi-Language!
  • stevejinstevejin
    I have the same bug too.
    my forum is http://support.wpued.com
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