[Mediawiki-l] Dirty hack for phrase search

[Jack Eapen C]

Hi all,

I'm not sure whether there is a provision to search for an exact phrase
exists in Mediawiki's default search or not.
So I made this dirty hack. Since my wiki is not public, not afraid of
any SQL injection attacks or so. 
So if u feel u r not vulnerable, try this:

Edit includes/SearchEngine.php 

	function filter( $text ) {
		$lc = $this->legalSearchChars();
		//return trim( preg_replace( "/[^{$lc}]/", " ", $text )
);  //dirty hack by Jack-to get exact phrase search
		return trim($text);
	}
I commented out the  return trim( preg_replace( "/[^{$lc}]/", " ", $text
) ); I don't know what impact this will make.. I don't know the pattern
of preg_replace. If there's a way to excluse double quotes from that
function, tell me that. 

So now u can search for "black holes" , with quotes, and mediawiki will
find results only where the exact phrase appear and not "black tea and
key hole"
 
Regards,
 
Jack Eapen C
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