ideas for search

[davo]

I'm using the following for a search query

	$matches = $pages->find("Meta_keywords|DMCcontact_Country|DMCcontact_Address_2|DMC_Email%=$q, template=dmc, limit=50"); 

The problem I have is it's picking up parts of words within other words like this:

oman, brings back romania

Any ideas how i could improve this?

David

[teppo]

If the problem is that you're getting too many results, have you tried using other operators, such as *=, instead of %=?

[davo]

Thanks teppo. I have tried the other operators but I can't find anything that matches exactly right. Partly my fault I guess for not organising the data properly in the first place.

The perfect example is as above: it finds a page with 'Oman' on the 'Romania' because it contains the word r Oman ia

I did think about adding a space after the query like this

$q =$q . " "

But that would then exclude the words or my keyword field which are going to have a comma directly after them.

I guess I could make up two instances to search for, one with a comma appended and one with a space.

[Soma]

Use ~=