Wow this plugin is sexy, i will sure try this out. Thanks for making it.

This seems to only be working correctly with single word searches. If I try doing a search with multiple words, even if I choose exact phrase, I get oodles of unrelated chunks. Is that because the plugin doesn’t realize I want the exact phrase so it’s just putting chunks that contain any of the words? I can’t very well depend on my users to only search for a single word.

Also, when I do search for a single word, some of the results come back displaying no chunks, whereas some are just fine.

Hi Fitzage,

The plugin is only set up to search for single words, so supplying a multiple word search will highlight whether exact phrase or not. The reason is because there is no way to tell what type of search was made. Because EE will return only relevant search results though it seemed reasonable for this behaviour.

As for no matches that could be because the search has found your search term in a custom field that isn’t between the plugin tags?

Well, the no results thing is weird because I checked the articles in question and they had oodles of results.

As far as the rest goes, I can’t really use the plugin if it’s going to search individually for every word in a phrase, because you can’t prevent people from typing phrases that include very small and common words.

Daniel Walton - 11 May 2008 03:58 AM

Hi Fitzage,

The plugin is only set up to search for single words, so supplying a multiple word search will highlight whether exact phrase or not. The reason is because there is no way to tell what type of search was made. Because EE will return only relevant search results though it seemed reasonable for this behaviour.

As for no matches that could be because the search has found your search term in a custom field that isn’t between the plugin tags?

Hi Daniel,

I was going to ask the same question that fitzage asked. When searching for a single word, the plugin works great. When searching for a phrase with multiple words, I still get relevant results but nothing is highlighted in the search results. I would expect that the whole phrase would be highlighted (if it matches of course) or if nothing else, any word matching any of those in the search query would be highlighted?

In your response above you said:

so supplying a multiple word search will highlight whether exact phrase or not

Am I understanding that correctly in that a multiple word search should still highlight the exact phrase (if found) or single words from the search?

Really great plug in, having problems with the following tag:

Gives me “Notice: Array to string conversion in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/103582/webspace/httpdocs/tru-vue_system/plugins/pi.zm_excerpt.php on line 281 Notice: Array to string conversion in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/103582/webspace/httpdocs/tru-vue_system/plugins/pi.zm_excerpt.php on line 289” for each search result…

Removing the pre and post chars fixes the error, (I tried numbers besides 5, including 50 and 100)

Also, still get a span tag despite the “none” even when using

though it causes no problems so I don’t really worry about it…

Thanks for your time…