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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline 
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Strange search (non)results I needed to phone Ray Wild today about a starter motor but had lost his number.I remember I'd seen it posted & in fact had repeated it myself in a post.Searching for his name showed no relevant results but searching the phone number area code (01327)resulted in six,all with his name in it!:? Any ideas as to why it wouldn't/couldn't find him? ---------------------- |
 Fri 14 Jan 2011 @ 21:08
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Colin Birch Admin Posts : 4273 Location : Pontypridd, South Wales Status : Offline 
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You've got me stumped. I've been playing around on my test forum with the same post and all sorts of combinations of the SQL query and failed but if you search for other two word strings from the same post it finds them. Looks like I've got a lot of de-bugging to do here 
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Fri 14 Jan 2011 @ 22:16
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bluebedouin Global Moderator Posts : 2444 Location : Northampton,England. Status : Offline
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Colin Birch wrote: ... Looks like I've got a lot of de-bugging to do here Did you know that a rough translation of bluebedouin in the sioux language is,"He who finds Colin lots of things to do"? ;D ---------------------- |
Fri 14 Jan 2011 @ 23:06
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Colin Birch Admin Posts : 4273 Location : Pontypridd, South Wales Status : Offline
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Well, I've done it 
It was down to the way that MySQL stores data in a 'blob' field. I assumed that doing the following SELECT threadid FROM posts WHERE LOWER($what) LIKE $searchstring would convert $what to lower case but it turns out that doesn't work on 'blob' fields as MySQL doesn't know what character set the field is stored in. I had to change the query to SELECT threadid FROM posts WHERE LOWER(CONVERT($what USING latin1)) LIKE $searchstring This tells MySQL that the field should be converted to lower case using the latin1 character set. Simples! ---------------------- |
Fri 14 Jan 2011 @ 23:28
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Anon Deleted Posts : Location : Status : Offline |
Im sure that some folk understand that Colin, but it goes to show what it takes to keep this mighty site going! I am in genuine awe- I understand the gist of it but still have no idea what what it really means! Keep up the good work! 
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