Exact search

[Ofuuzo]

Hi,
I added a function whichI call a quick search dropdown list:

<form>
<select name="quick_search">
<option value="">Quick search list</option>
<option value="../search.php?search_keywords=Jan Great ">Jan</option>
<option value="../search.php?search_keywords=Nicky Best"> Nicky</option>
.......

How can I make it to search exactly  for "Jan Great" and the result of the search will be only where "Jan Great" are found and not
occurrence of "Jan Peter", "John the Great", "Jan Great",...

Can you point me in which files I have to look or how I can do that in version 1.6. 1

Thanks.
Ofuuzo

[Jan]

There is no "Exact Phrase" search possible, sorry. But you do things like:

<option value="../search.php?search_keywords=Jan+%2BGreat">Jan</option>

This will find images with Jan AND Great. But this will also fin "Jan the Great".

+ = urlencoded Space
%2B = urlencoded +

Greets Jan

[Info]

This doesn't seem to work for me. If I enter the string "search.php?search_keywords=Jan+%2BGreat" I don't get the AND option but the OR option as result. Any idea how to change this to AND?

[Chris]

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<option value="../search.php?search_keywords=Jan+%2BGreat">Jan</option>
Actually there is another step needed 

Change that option value to this:

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<option value="../search.php?search_keywords=Jan+Great&search_terms=all">Jan</option>You actually don't actually need the %2B

Open search.php and change this:

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if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['search_terms'])) {
  $search_terms = (trim($HTTP_POST_VARS['search_terms']) == "all") ? 1 : 0;To this:

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if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['search_terms']) || isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['search_terms'])) {
  $search_terms = (trim($HTTP_POST_VARS['search_terms']) == "all" || trim($HTTP_GET_VARS['search_terms']) == "all") ? 1 : 0;

[V@no]

ok, am I missing something? if u want search so both keywords would match, just use AND in between them:
Jan+AND+Great

[Chris]

Yeah that would work but if you wanted several words, it might be cumbersome:

search.php?search_keywords=my+AND+keywords+AND+another+AND+word+AND...

Either way works