Add "whole word" search option to search's

[N6REJ]

Steps to reproduce the issue

in the "testing" sample set if you search on "bug direct" you'll get partial matches.
in my experience this is rarely the case desired.
I think we should add an option for "Whole word" search instead of just
any, all & exact.

Expected result

Return ONLY matching whole words when set to any &/or all since exact can't be used with multiple SINGLE words.

Actual result

partial matches returned.

System information (as much as possible)

systeminfo-2017-08-29T02-34-30+00-00.txt

Additional comments

Looks like the problem starts @ line 103 in content.php for "content plugin"
and near 218 in view.html.php in component.
@nibra and I spent a fair amount of time discussing / tracking this down.

[AlisonAMG]

And thank you guys so much for looking at this.

[brianteeman]

since exact can't be used with multiple SINGLE words.

why not?

[nibra]

Am 29.08.2017 um 10:31 schrieb Brian Teeman:

> since exact can't be used with multiple SINGLE words. why not?

'exact' matches the search string as a whole. You currently can't search for 'bug' and 'direct' without matching 'debug' and 'redirect'. Regards, Niels

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[brianteeman]

Thanks for the explanation

[brianteeman]

For reference smart search aka com_finder searches for whole words

[N6REJ]

@brianteeman but sadly the layout is poor. at least with Ajax live search it is. The ultimate question is if smart search does it, why not simple search :P lol
A blog layout is sorely needed imo

[brianteeman]

Sorry but I don't understand your comment

[N6REJ]

@brianteeman its ok, lets worry about that on another issue/pr
for now lets worry about searchphrase

[tonypartridge]

@nibra can’t we do this with OR statements? If we explode on a space?

[nibra]

It is of course possible to add a search query parser. The problem IMO is to make it intuitive to use.
AND (all) and OR (any) are already implemented - they're just not searching for whole words.

[tonypartridge]

I was thinking more of a search option config for now, opposed to allowing the user control. We could allow overriding at a later date to give user control in search it desired.

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On 2 May 2018, 01:58 +0100, Niels Braczek ***@***.***>, wrote: It is of course possible to add a search query parser. The problem IMO is to make it intuitive to use. AND (all) and OR (any) are already implemented - they're just not searching for whole words. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[Hackwar]

Adding this feature for Joomla 3.x is nearly impossible, mainly because you are requesting a new behavior for com_search, but which at the same time requires all existing search plugins to be modified to support this feature. For Joomla 4.0 I hope to make this unnecessary, too, because we hopefully remove com_search and all related plugins for 4.0. Feel free to help making this possible and improving searching in Joomla by testing these PRs:

• [4.0] Removing artificial sharding from com_finder #20185 [4.0] Removing artificial sharding from com_finder
• [4.0] Make the tuple length of com_finder configurable #20384 [4.0] Removing terms tuples from com_finder
• [4.0] Using language specific tokeniser and stemmer for com_finder #20391 [4.0] Using language specific tokeniser and stemmer for com_finder

[brianteeman]

I did spend quite some time on this but it is virtually impossible for the reasons stated by @Hackwar

If you really need this functionality today in J3 then you will have to use smart-search.