chico1st Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 okay i have a full text search, it works, and here is the query$query = "SELECT news.newsID, news.name AS news, news.abstract, news.fulltext, date.name AS date, author.name AS author, MATCH(news.name, news.abstract, news.fulltext) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AS score FROM news, date, author WHERE MATCH(news.name, news.abstract, news.fulltext) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AND date.dateID = news.dateID AND author.authorID = news.authorID ORDER BY score DESC";but even if i know a certain word is in the entry im searching, often i wont get any articles coming up as results. Is there anything that might cause this like the 50% threshhold? or blocked words?for instance if I search 'database' i get a result, yet right next to it is the word 'available' but if i type that in there are no resultsAny idea why?ALSO! if i want to make a certain field more sensitive would I have to make it its own table.. like a title table? or can i just choose to search that field? i know i have to have the same fields in my select as are in my index table so i cant just not include a field as far as i knowTHANKS! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/18362-full-text-search-accuracy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 The refman has all sorts of details about the nuances of FULLTEXT searching -- if your keyword matches too many things, it won't "match". And yes, there are stopwords, and other things like that. The best way is to make your own index. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/18362-full-text-search-accuracy/#findComment-78965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico1st Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 well i did make my own index but i want to be able to search the title OR the abstract OR the fulltextokay.. well that just means that the inaccuracy is out of my control :P which is good news... take that users! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/18362-full-text-search-accuracy/#findComment-78996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico1st Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 ive noticed that i can make more than one index. the one that the search seems to default to is 'full_index' can i make more than one index then just point my search at different index's?also i eliminated the text area and just left the title, abstract,... 4 fields in total... it officially doesnt work.. but there is no errorhere is the query:$sql = "SELECT research.researchID, research.name AS research, research.coresearch, research.affiliation, research.abstract, research.fulltext, date.name AS date, author.name AS author, MATCH(research.name, research.abstract, research.coresearch, research.affiliation) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AS score FROM research, date, author WHERE MATCH(research.name, research.abstract, research.coresearch, research.affiliation) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AND date.dateID = research.dateID AND author.authorID = research.authorID ORDER BY score DESC";this is what its searching: research name: More crazy researchabstract: The plague is bad co-researcher: bottonaffiliation: schoolit has 9 words to search and if i type in any of them it wont find the article.. are all the words occuring too often? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/18362-full-text-search-accuracy/#findComment-79002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 It also depends on how many records there are to search... FULLTEXT works best on thousands of records. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/18362-full-text-search-accuracy/#findComment-79160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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