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Search Enhancement Mod
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SMF Search Enhancement Mod
Note: ver 1.1.6 (and later) fixes a major bug from the *official* SMF 1.1.3, 1.1.4 search function that is very likely to immensely disrupt search results. The bug affects all forum owners without mysql privilege to CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES - regardless of whether a previous version of this mod was installed.
Overview
DC SMF Search is a mod to the existing smf forum search function. In addition to a list of enhancements and new features, it also fixes a few bugs in smf official 1.1.3 search function.
For illustrated demo, visit: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=9434.0
Features
1. Significant reduction of missing results (now very rare)
2. Less noise and therefore reasonably better relevance
3. Hugely improved ranking algorithm (when using FullText index)
4. Enhanced phrase search
5. Intelligent handling for '(apostrophe), .(period), and –(dash)
6. Supports short keywords (3 characters or less)
7. Supports stopwords (clichés)
8. Active board ranking heuristic (based on mouser’s suggestion)
9. Expand/foldable result summary
10. Viewing all matching posts in a topic with one click
11. Ability to sort search results live
12. Quick dropdown search box
IMPORTANT CONFIGURATION INFO
Works best with Search Settings (in admin panel):
1. Use FullText index (Search index -> FullText index)
2. Leave "Force the use of a search index" UNchecked
3. Leave "match whole words only" UNchecked
4. Maximum results to show: 0 (0: no limit)
ioszilla:
As mentioned above, plz make sure you configure your search in Admin panel as shown below -- in order for this mod to search fast and best rank results:
1. Use FullText index (Search index -> FullText index)
2. Leave "Force the use of a search index" UNchecked
3. Leave "match whole words only" UNchecked
4. Set "Maximum results to show" to 0
karlbenson:
is this alot more server intensive than the standard smf one?
ioszilla:
--- Quote from: karlbenson on August 12, 2007, 07:08:24 PM ---is this alot more server intensive than the standard smf one?
--- End quote ---
We have been using it on our own forum (http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php, SMF 1.1.3) for over a month (since July 4th), and so far we haven't experienced any performance problem -- some members even told me the new search was faster. Before this mod, our search utilized SMF custom index.
I'm confident that this mod won't stress your server. Feel free to do some searches on our forum (70,000+ posts) and see how it performs. :)
Eleglin:
it would be so cool if we can choose an engine (Google / Yahoo / or customised ) for the search on the entire site.
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