New search options added for login users

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

I have just added two new search options:

- Search for private entries aka "[#]"
- Search for public + private entries aka "[@]"

for logged in users only.

This prevents search engines from indexing private entries and makes it easier (I hope) for those of us who finds it difficult to remember arbitrary command line parameters.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

Cool. Would be nice if we could add a search term as well with the operator.

eg. "[@] my search term"

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

You can, from the first day that operator came into existence.

You can too, from the search options screen now, if you are logged in.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

You're right. It works to an extent.

I just tried:
"[#] flv" - doesn't give me any results, but it should match this: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1590
"[#] extract" - this gives me some results.

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

@freakazoid: This has been fixed.

By default, MySQL ignores tokens of length <= 3 during fulltext index/search. I modified the config so that it will include tokens of length 3 and rebuild the FT index.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

Thanks Andrew!

Checker · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:46 am

Andrew Lee wrote:

I have just added two new search options:

- Search for private entries aka "[#]"
- Search for public + private entries aka "[@]"

Very good ... thanks :!:

BTW: Now a direct search for "Q-Dir" works again :wink:

Midas · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:31 pm

Andrew Lee wrote:

I have just added two new search options:

- Search for private entries aka "[#]"
- Search for public + private entries aka "[@]"

for logged in users only.

Just a note to highlight the remarkable mnemonic quality of Andrew's glyph choices: #, i.e., cardinal symbol (AKA sharp?) is a pictorial representation of a grid, thus extremely adequate for searches of objects kept hidden (locked away) by lack of member support; @, the "at symbol" ('arobase' in French or 'arroba' in Spanish/Portuguese; s. Wikpedia) a derivative of the letter 'a', thus making evidential the all inclusive nature of a particular search including it. Well done!

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

@Midas: You read my mind!

the_watcher · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am **Posts:** 140

It might be the wrong section/topic to post this, but a search for "everything" (the app) returns no results [as i found out today]

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

Damn! Look at this page and search for "everything":

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/ ... words.html

Anyway, a quick change to the config file to disable stopwords seemed to have fixed things.

Thanks for reporting this!

the_watcher · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am **Posts:** 140

It works now!Thanks for the quick fix!

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

Andrew Lee wrote:

I have just added two new search options:

- Search for private entries aka "[#]"
- Search for public + private entries aka "[@]"

for logged in users only.

This prevents search engines from indexing private entries and makes it easier (I hope) for those of us who finds it difficult to remember arbitrary command line parameters.

Even when I'm not logged in, searches with [@] return me both public and private entries as results.

It is supposed that I should be logged in to get these results, isn't it?

Andrew Lee · **Joined:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:19 am **Posts:** 1878

lautrepay wrote:

It is supposed that I should be logged in to get these results, isn't it?

This issue has been fixed. Thanks!

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

Andrew Lee wrote:

This issue has been fixed. Thanks!

Thanks for the fix, Mr. Lee!

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