Extension talk:Wildcard search

I tried and got it to work on MediaWiki 1.6.7 with MySQL 5. --Flominator 08:57, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * with 1.11, PHP5 and MySQL 5 as well. --Flominator 11:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Mediawiki 1.10.1
Got it to work on MediaWiki 1.10.1 by using 'static' class SearchMySQLwildcards extends SearchMySQL4 { //     function legalSearchChars { static function legalSearchChars { //include + and * as valid characters return "A-Za-z_'0-9\\x80-\\xFF\\-+*"; } } --Hakuin 12:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Without the keyword "static", returns the error

Fatal error: Cannot make static method SearchEngine::legalSearchChars non static in class SearchMySQLwildcards in /www/htdocs/mediawiki-1.10.1/extensions/SearchMySQLwildcards/SearchMySQLwildcards.php on line 14

--Mstroh 01:37, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Information in different Wiki
Some people like to write comments here :-/ : [ http://assela.pathirana.net/Talk:Wildcard_Search_Extension ]

--Hakuin 12:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't work with MW 1.9.3
Did a basic search with "*" and no results; should return all articles! —Eep² 04:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Because the minimum length for a word is by default four characters. So try to search for some* to find 'something'. -


 * Well, that's lame...not even "****" works then--oops. And, per Manual:$wgDBminWordLen, having to dork with the database (and rebuild a table) just to change the minimum search length is lame...(especially on shared hosting webspace providers where access to the database server isn't there). Oddly, "w*" returns all pages that start with "w", despite being only 1 character... —Eep² 10:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Doesnt work
Linuxfan 22:09, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Seems to be a problem with MW 1.11. I asked the developer here. --Flominator 10:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Solved. --Flominator 11:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It is working but how i can make it search *something* without *-marks? Or at least something*. 21 Nov 2007

It works with the Mediawiki 1.7.1 version.
I just installed it and it works just as I wanted. Thank you for sharing this extension! Todu 12:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Update: It does not work to search using two '*' characters: Lets say I want to find a page that contain the word "oxymoron" and use the search phrase "*xymoro*". I will then get zero results. "oxym*r*n" does not work either.

Can you fix this or maybe even make it possible to use regular expressions in the search box? Todu 13:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Wildcard in front of term
It would be useful to enable wildcards in front of the word.

*wiki will find Wiki, Mediawiki.

*wiki* will find Wiki, Mediawiki, Wikipedia, Superwikisuper. --Subfader 14:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

It's standard now at least in MW 1.12
This WildCard search is standard now at least in MW 1.12 if not ealier. Maybe change the intro text. --Subfader 14:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Only works with * at end, doesn't follow word order?
If I put a star at the beginning or in the middle, it doesn't seem to work.

For example: search t*n returns tools, which doesn't contain an n. Also, *ls doesn't return anything, even though I know tools exists.