Extension:Wildcard search

Background
By default Mediawiki does not allow wildcard searches (e.g. searching for rabbi* will return pages with rabbit, rabbits or rabbi) 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
require_once("extensions/wildcardsearch/SearchMySQLwildcards.php");
 * First save this file as SearchMySQLwildcards.php in a sub-folder (let's say 'wildcardsearch' ) of extensions directory.
 * Then add the following to the end of your LocalSettings.php file


 * Note: The present code is for MySQL database type. For others changes are necessary.

Change log

 * 08:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC) Fixed the code error mentioned here
 * 08:32, 10 October 2006 (JST) Made a minor change to make the code compatible with 1.7.1 version of mediawiki. Thanks to Lars Pontoppidan for the suggestion.