[Mediawiki-l] mediawiki 1.5rc4, substring search, how?

[Maurice Joseph]

No regular expressions or wildcards

You cannot use regular expressions or wildcards such as ? or *. If you don't 
know what that is, don't worry about it. To search for pages with the words 
"boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat or boats".

See reference here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

Maurice Joseph
SpikeSource, Inc
developer.spikesource.com

> Hello,
> 
> I have read all mediawiki pages, that talk about searching in mediawiki.
> 
> Can you tell me how to enable a substring-search in mediawiki 1.5rc4?
> 
> When i write in the search box "austin" , then the software found the word,
> but when i write
> "austi*", the last character replace to a wildcard, then the software found
> nothing.
> 
> The Database MYSQL 4.1.13 find the string in the searchindex table (tested
> with my own select). I have checked the
> query with logging and in the query is no wildcard. The searchengine has
> delete the wildcard .
> 
> In the software of Wikipedia is working correct.
> 
> What must i do, then the software is working correct?
> 
> Thank you for your time and help.
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Kind regards
> 
> i.A. Thomas  Klein
> OPS Koordination / OPS coordination
> 
> EAE software GmbH
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> 22926 Ahrensburg/Germany
> 
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