Hi, I tried to install this extension and failed as well. Have also tried to contact it's author Assel Pathirana, no answer so far. Maybe try Lucene Search instead. Aretai On 5/12/07, a. cremer &lt;albert.cremer-BGeptl67XyCzQB+pC5nmwQ(a)public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > I like to enable wildcard search and try to utilize the wildcard search > extension > > <?PHP > #Copyright (C) 2006 Assela Pathirana under the version 2 of the GNU > General > Public License > #Adds wildcard search functionality to mediawiki > # file : SearchMySQLwildcards.php > require_once( 'SearchEngine.php' );require_once( > 'SearchMySQL.php' );require_once( 'SearchMySQL4.php' );//Register this > search type and override the default search set in > DefaultSettins.php$wgSearchType = SearchMySQLwildcards;//Create a new > search class based on the parentclass SearchMySQLwildcards extends > SearchMySQL4 { function legalSearchChars() { > //include + and * as valid characters return > "A-Za-z_'0-9\\x80-\\xFF\\-+*"; }}$strictMatching=false;?>having > require_once("extensions/WCS/SearchMySQLwildcards.php"); in the > localsettings.phpUnfortunately it will not work. Instead of the required > search results there is only a blank page.Does anyone have a comment on > this?Kind regardsAlbert Cremer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r(a)public.gmane.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

Hi, I tried to install this extension and failed as well. Have also tried to contact it's author Assel Pathirana, no answer so far. Maybe try Lucene Search instead. Aretai On 5/12/07, a. cremer &lt;albert.cremer(a)online.de&gt; wrote: > > Hi, > > I like to enable wildcard search and try to utilize the wildcard search > extension > > <?PHP > #Copyright (C) 2006 Assela Pathirana under the version 2 of the GNU > General > Public License > #Adds wildcard search functionality to mediawiki > # file : SearchMySQLwildcards.php > require_once( 'SearchEngine.php' );require_once( > 'SearchMySQL.php' );require_once( 'SearchMySQL4.php' );//Register this > search type and override the default search set in > DefaultSettins.php$wgSearchType = SearchMySQLwildcards;//Create a new > search class based on the parentclass SearchMySQLwildcards extends > SearchMySQL4 { function legalSearchChars() { > //include + and * as valid characters return > "A-Za-z_'0-9\\x80-\\xFF\\-+*"; }}$strictMatching=false;?>having > require_once("extensions/WCS/SearchMySQLwildcards.php"); in the > localsettings.phpUnfortunately it will not work. Instead of the required > search results there is only a blank page.Does anyone have a comment on > this?Kind regardsAlbert Cremer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >