Extension talk:Multi-Category Search

Wildcards
It would be great if Wildcards could be included. It would work best if your extension could include the Extension:Wildcard search which could be more advanced later. --Subfader 14:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Ignore only search
When you only enter a category name in the ignore section it asks to enter a word in the include section. That's useless. It should be possible to list pages not in a certain category or in combination. --Subfader 18:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Search this category
See here please. --Subfader 01:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement
Nice extension, but I see room for improvement. A few suggestions:


 * The extension lists only articles that are directly in the specified categories. It would be very useful if there was a possibility to include subcategories of the specified categories into the search. Currently, if I have a category "software" and a subcat "text editors", all articles contained in "text editors" will not be found if I search in "software"! That's not what one would expect...
 * Currently, if you type more than 1 category, the extension searches for articles that are contained in all of these categories. It would be nice if there were a way to search for articles in either category (which is a logical OR instead of the current logical AND). It would be even nicer if one would be able to combine these things into a kind of logical expression ("categoryA AND categoryB OR categoryC), but that's probably a step too far (and less likely to be needed).
 * It would be nice if there was a possibility to filter the result with a keyword search (like the standard search tool) and then present the results subdivided into title matches and text matches.

That's it for the moment, if I think of more I'll mention it here. Lexw 07:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I doubt the devs read this page. --Subfader 16:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I doubt they don't. The extension is still quite new, so they should be curious for comments. Lexw 07:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, except a few small issues, I don't plan to expand functionality of Multi-Category Search extension in the near future. --CodeMonk 20:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Told ya. So no need to report bugs? Like var $paramsPassMethod = 'get'; +  not working? --Subfader 17:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with it? --CodeMonk 20:03, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Can't get it working so that the search terms are in the URL as get should do. var $paramsPassMethod = 'get'; doesn#t work since  is set per default. Nonetheless, changing it to method='get' doesn't help either. --Subfader 21:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you're using the unmodified latest version? It is paramsPassMethod}' action='{$action}'> there and it works well on my setup. What happens when you submit search form with 'get'? --CodeMonk 22:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)