Difference between revisions of "Wildcard Search Extension"
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Revision as of 08:28, 22 March 2006
Background
By default Mediawiki does not allow wikipedia:Wildcard_character wildcard searches (e.g. searching for rabbi* will return pages with rabbit, rabbit*) by default, but this can be easily turned on. It is possible to do this by changing several line in the Mediawiki code. However, this is not a recommended way, as it will create problems at future updates, etc. This 'extension' allows doing the same without changing the core mediawiki code.
How to
- First save this file as SearchMySQLwildcards.php in a sub-folder (let's say 'wildcardsearch' ) of extensions directory.
<?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( '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 parent class SearchMySQLwildcards extends SearchMySQL4 {
function legalSearchChars() { //include + and * as valid characters return "A-Za-z_'0-9¥¥x80-¥¥xFF¥¥-+*"; }
} $strictMatching=false; ?>
- Then add the following to the end of your LocalSettings.php file
require_once("extensions/wildcardsearch/SearchMySQLwildcards.php");
- Note
- The present code is for MySQL database type. For others changes are necessary.