Forums / Setup & design / wildcards on eZ Find
Lukasz Piech
Wednesday 24 October 2007 1:25:07 am
Hi
Can me stupid but i cannot figure it out - how to use wildcards in eZ Find, i.e when i want to search for my surname i now have to search for Piech but i would like to search for Piec* or *iech or whatever
Is this possible?
Lukasz
Paul Borgermans
Wednesday 24 October 2007 1:57:30 am
Hi Lukasz
This is not yet possible. In a future release, we will enable the "standard" request handler from the Solr backend, so full boolean, wildcard and fuzzy searches will be possible then.
Paul
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Wednesday 24 October 2007 9:39:07 am
thanks. Could you therefore suggest another solution for me? I am about to design a Knowedge Base system in existing eZ intalation. To do that i will create content classes: * Solution * How to article* Patch
etc, each with Facts, Symptoms, Goals, Fixes, Notes, all searchable. I would also like (buut not necessarily) to implement a search logics and weighting (symptoms more important than notes etc).
To do that I would need a good search engine with * boolean *wildcards* business logic described above
is there a search engine for ez that could do that?
thanks
Kåre Køhler Høvik
Thursday 25 October 2007 1:04:29 am
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Fredrik Ardmar
Saturday 19 January 2008 9:04:54 pm
You might also want to try to use the q.alt parameter instead of the normal q parameter.That allows you to go around the limitations to the dismax handler and access for example wildcard searches.You can also get fuzzy search by using "~". But be a bit careful cause using .alt might also affect other parts of the search query. For example you wont have highlighted results. But in general it should work.
Now the search looks like this is ezsolr.php:
'q' =>$searchText,
Try to change this to for example
'q.alt' =>$searchText.'*'
Not sure if its the solution your looking for but might work until the standard request handler is available.
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Sunday 20 January 2008 10:41:04 am
About the <b>q.alt</b> parameter:
This is mainly meant for queries where the filters (with sorting parameters) are used, and then it is most useful for using the facet parameters.
Indeed, highlighting won't work as this takes the keywords specified in the <b>q</b> parameter
CheersPaul
Sunday 20 January 2008 5:05:36 pm
Hi Paul
Do agree this is not a pretty fix. You have any better, easier solution if one needs to have a simple wildcard search with the dismax handler? If I can get the highlighting to work it would be even better:)
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